Thrale's End

The Thrale family originated around the Hundred of Flitt in Bedfordshire and of its parishes Clophill, Barton, Gravenhurst (Upper & Lower). Higher Gobian and Pulloxhill are of special significance, but paramount is the parish of Luton with its manors of East and West Hyde which border on to the hamlet of Thrale's End. Thrales End is a little hamlet on the Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire border, north of Harpenden, four miles from Sandridge and five miles from St Albans.

This page also contains details of the earliest records for Thrales from 1309 until 1616.

In 1773 while listening to an account of the history of the Maclean family, Dr Samuel Johnson retorted… >"I'd rather hear the history of the Thrales."
The article summarises the earliest known records of the Thrale family.