It is located around a mile and a half north-east of Buntingford (OS grid reference TL 373 317), and lies due north of Greenwich on the Prime Meridian.

The place name is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Widihale, and means 'willow nook'.

In 1859 the nave was restored and the chancel and south porch rebuilt by Baillie & Co.[2]Wyddial Hall is a Grade II* listed building, which was originally built in the early 16th century.

[3] Admiral Edward Heaton-Ellis, who fought in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, was born at Wyddial.

On his death in 1946 the Hall was bought by William and Christina Gibson, then in 1964 by Mrs Jennifer Boyd-Carpenter, the ecclesiastical embroiderer, and her husband Michael, a member of the Stock Exchange.