Brookmans Park
Hawkshead LaneCoal post east side of the railway and 400 yards south of the road bridge.marked as ‘Duty Stone’. Warrengate RoadCoal post on the west side at the Hawkeshead Lane junction
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darkes laneMoat Manor Farm or Wyllyots Manor, 1600 house 16th century barn old fold farmPotters Bar Woodside Home for IncurablesManor House concealed behind a car park, Wyllotts Manor black oak...
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Ashenden RoadBayford House.tall gables and chimneypots. Outbuildings.BayfordBakers Arms pub. Named for Sir William Baker Alderman of the City of London and builder of Bayfordbury House in the...
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Brickenden Grange Golf CourseThe Grange - horror movie material with Gothic chimneys and turrets.Brick cylinder protecting the ventilation of the railway tunnel below.
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Wormleybury BrookThe Brook rises in this area from a number of sources and flows eastwards to the River LeeDevils Lane. FootpathPonsbourne Tunnel Between Cuffley and Bayford stations. A major civil...
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Hatfield RoadOaklands which is a c19 conversion of a Georgian house. Tudor trim and a castellated tower added which bears the date 1844. The additions were made for William Knight
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A1001 two white reinforced-concrete buildings from the de Havilland factory.Comet WayFormer Hatfield Aerodrome for de Havilland. British Aerospace Hatfield closed in 1993. Hatfield Aerodrome now...
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A1001Hatfield Road Tunnel. 1986,1,400 metres long, takes A1 (M) beneath The Galleria shopping mall. Major civil engineering work built by cut and cover techniques, replacing the last...
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Roestock LanePumping stationReservoirsNorth London Society of Model Engineers has a model railway system
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Great North Roadfinally to the splendours of the Great Road asit appeared in the last days of the mail coach. The western bulge of the coachroad was in due course reflected in the line of the railway,...
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Southern Link RoadWelham Green Station. 29thSeptember 1986. Between Hatfield and Brookman’s Park on Great Northern Railway
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Great North RoadNow begins the feature once known to cyclists as the Long Wall, the stonewall which borders the Salisbury properties of Millwards and Hatfield. Withthe occasional lodge gates...
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Gorhambury House Mansion. This was rebuilt in 1770. it included fine paintings, Chippendale furniture, fireplaces, enamelled glass, etc. Bacon’s house survives in part as a ruin in the grounds. With...
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Batchwood DriveBatchwood Hall Grimthorpe's own house, designed by him in a unique style, but given neo-Georgian details and much altered since 1912. The main house is eleven bays wide. At the side...
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King Harry Lane2 King Harry. Mitchells & Butlers pub dating from mid-18th century situated at the southern entrance to the city. VerulamiamSt. Albans is built on several hills and stands above the...
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Cathedral Cathedral. St Alban's was built on the hill where St Alban was martyred in the 4th Century. Alban may or may not have been a Roman officer who, having assisted a Christian deacon to...
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Vesta AvenueSt.Bartholomew the Apostle R.C. 1964 Pentagon shaped building in a modern style and its own version of the Hertfordshire spike.Watling StreetImportant Roman road which ran from Dover in...
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Bernards HeathSite of second Battle of St Alban's. Where the Earl of Warwick camped in 1460 before a battle with the Queen’s forces in the town. The Yorkist army were later defeated here.
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Beaconsfield RoadSt.Alban and St.Stephen R.C. consecrated 1977Camp RoadCamp **Dagnall StreetSt.Alban's Baptist Church Opened in 1885. The present church replaced one of 1720 which had become too small...
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Campfield RoadElectricity Works. Former Northmet power station, 1908. Built as a refuse destructor - generator station, later converted to oil engines, closed 1929.Sutton Road3 Beaumont Works. The...
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