Sarratt
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Sarratt is a village in Hertfordshire, England.
Names: Syret (x cent.); Syreth (xi and xii cent.); Seret (xiii cent.); Saret, Sarett and Sarette (xv cent.); Sarrett (xvi and xvii cent.). Sarratt is a small Hertfordshire parish of about 1,540 acres on the Buckinghamshire border of the county. The village stands on a ridge of land about 400 ft. above the ordnance datum. There is a dip from here on all sides, especially to the west, where the ground slopes down to the bed of the River Chess, but in the north it rises again, and Rosehall Farm stands at a height of 430 ft. There is a long and wide village green and the houses stand along its edges. The church is three-quarters of a mile away to the south-east, with a few houses near it on the east, and overlooking the wooded slopes of the Chess valley. The hamlet of Belsize is about half a mile to the north of the village, and contains some nine or ten cottages. This and the outlying farms called Sarratt and Rosehall complete the village. There are no high roads and no railways within the parish, but by-roads lead to other villages and to Rickmansworth, which lies four miles to the south. The parish contains a good many small woods, and in the south-west is a wooded furze common known as Dar's Common. From: 'Parishes: Sarratt', A History of the County of Hertford: volume 2 (1908), pp. 438-43. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43305. Date accessed: 29 December 2006.
In the novels of John Le Carré, Sarratt was the location of a major establishment of the British intelligence service.
