Flaunden is a village and a civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, close to the border with Buckinghamshire. Old Flaunden was on the banks of the

River Chess The River Chess is a chalk stream that rises near Chesham in the Chiltern Hills, and flows for through Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire to its confluence with the River Colne in Rickmansworth. The Chess, along with the Colne and Gade, gi ...

in Buckinghamshire but owing to constant flooding, the settlement moved up the hill into Hertfordshire in the early 19th century. The new church at the top of the hill was built in 1838 and was the first church designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The former Baptist chapel in Flaunden dates from 1836 and closed in 1985. It is now a private residence but the chapel's graveyard remains alongside. Flaunden has two pubs: The Bricklayers ArmsFlaunden's pubs
/ref> and The Green Dragon, a Grade II listed building dating from the early 17th century which is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

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File:The Green Dragon - geograph.org.uk - 1150743.jpg, The Green Dragon File:St Mary Magdalene, Flaunden, Herts - East end - geograph.org.uk - 348951.jpg, Church interior with east window File:St Mary Magdalene, Flaunden, Herts - Window - geograph.org.uk - 348954.jpg, Window in church

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Villages in Hertfordshire Dacorum Civil parishes in Hertfordshire {{Hertfordshire-geo-stub