Hard against the Buckinghamshire border,
Flaunden - the southernmost parish in the Borough of Dacorum -
values its remoteness. There are several half-timbered properties
and mellowed brick cottages. The parish church, built in 1838 of
flint with a small wooden bellcote, was the first to be designed by
Sir George Gilbert Scott whose uncle was the vicar of nearby
Latimer. Later Scott went on to become a distinguished architect of
churches.