Rickmansworth, Croxley Green and Chorleywood in 50 Buildings - Alan Jamieson

Rickmansworth is an attractive small town in south-west Hertfordshire with its origins as farmsteads owned by the Abbey of St Albans. From this time (in the early fifteenth century) a Great Barn was built. In later centuries, sitting on a road that became a route to the north, and with the coming of the Grand Union Canal and the Metropolitan railway line, the town grew and churches, schools, public houses, almshouses and grand houses were built – and many have survived. Nearby are manor houses... Zobrazit více