[6] The Domesday surveyors were recording a property ownership dispute that had been ongoing for three centuries regarding heavily forested land.

After the Reformation the lands were sold off to the highest bidders and Aldenham is probably smaller today than it was 500 years ago.

In 1940, a German air attack damaged stained glass and removed the "Hertfordshire Spike" – the spire on the top of the tower.

Both the church and the village have been used in many films, advertisements and television programmes, being within easy travelling distance of Elstree Studios.

These have included the film Confessions of a Window Cleaner, BBC television series Pathfinders, and the Coldplay music video for "Life in Technicolor II", to name but a few.

This is the largest hamlet, and is 0.8 miles (1.3 km) southeast, it is slightly larger in population size than the village itself, see Letchmore Heath.

Wall Hall is a magnificent gothic revival mansion with a castellated façade created in the early nineteenth century.

Aldenham Country Park is council-owned land, which is some distance away from the old village, closer to the two southern hamlets; it has a 60 acres (24 ha) lake, Hillfield Reservoir, and is south of Letchmore Heath.