Nettleden is a village in Hertfordshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, about four miles north west of Hemel Hempstead.
The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'valley where nettles grow'. In manorial records of the late Twelfth century the village was recorded as Neteleydene.
Anciently the village was a hamlet in the parish of Pitstone, in Buckinghamshire though the boundary of the hamlet was completely surrounded by the county of Hertfordshire. Nettleden was only made part of Hertfordshire, and a parish in its own right, in 1895.
Today the village sits in a very attractive location, on the periphery of Ashridge Common.
Nettleden was a chapelry in this parish until 1895, at which date it was formed into a parish and transferred to Hertfordshire, under which county it has been described."
The great tithes, which belonged to the convent of Asheridge, are now the property of the earl of Bridgwater, who is patron of the consolidated vicarages of Ivinghoe and Pitston.
At Nettleden, a hamlet of Pitston, about six miles distant from the parish church, on the road from Gaddesdon to Hemel Hempstead, is a chapel of ease, which was consecrated in 1470.
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