Garston, Hertfordshire
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| Garston | ||
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| Statistics | ||
| Population: | 20'417 (ONS Census 2001) | |
| Ordnance Survey | ||
| OS grid reference: | TL116002 | |
| Administration | ||
| District: | Watford Borough | |
| Shire county: | Hertfordshire | |
| Region: | East of England | |
| Constituent country: | England | |
| Sovereign state: | United Kingdom | |
| Other | ||
| Ceremonial county: | Hertfordshire | |
| Historic county: | Hertfordshire | |
| Services | ||
| Police force: | Hertfordshire Constabulary | |
| Fire and rescue: | {{{Fire}}} | |
| Ambulance: | East of England | |
| Post office and telephone | ||
| Post town: | WATFORD | |
| Postal district: | WD25 | |
| Dialling code: | 01923 | |
| Politics | ||
| UK Parliament: | Watford | |
| European Parliament: | East of England | |
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Garston is a village in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, more or less contiguous with Watford and now, despite retaining a strong local identity, is effectively, a suburb. It is within the Stanborough, Woodside, and Meriden wards of Watford Borough Council although a small number of its streets are within Hertsmere Borough Council.
Watford's main out-of-town leisure park, Woodside Leisure Park, is in Garston on the A405 Kingsway road. It features a Vue cinema, Hollywood Bowl 10-pin bowling lane, and two restaurants -- Chiquito and Frankie & Benny's.
Garston is home to the British Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and the West Herts Crematorium at Garston is the principal facility for non-burial funerals in the West Hertfordshire area, serving Watford, St Albans and Hemel Hempstead.
The British Research Establishment (BRE) is on Bucknalls Lane, Garston, just on the border with Bricket Wood.
It also has its own railway station
