Carpenders Park
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| Carpenders Park | |
  Carpenders Park shown within Hertfordshire |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| District | Three Rivers |
| Shire county | Hertfordshire |
| Region | East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | WATFORD |
| Postcode district | WD19 5 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| Police | Hertfordshire |
| Fire | Hertfordshire |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| European Parliament | East of England |
| UK Parliament | Watford |
| List of places: UK • England • Hertfordshire | |
Carpenders Park is a surburb of Watford in the Watford Rural parish of the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire, England. It is located in the south western corner of Hertfordshire and close to the boundary with Greater London. It is bounded to the West by a railway line that separates it from South Oxhey, to the East by the A4008 Watford to Harrow Road (Oxhey Lane), to the South by the B4542 (Little Oxhey Lane), Green Belt and the boundary with the London Borough of Harrow and to the North by woodland (Margeholes Wood and Sherwood Wood).
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[edit] History
Carpenders Park was originally an estate based around a manor house of the same name. This was later a girls school, Highfields, which was demolished in 1960 to make way for USAF married quarters. These were in turn demolished in 1997/98 [1] [2]. The base was also known as Highfields.
The houses and bungalows of Carpenders Park were originally built in the 1930s. There was subsequent development in the 1950s including some council housing built for the Watford Rural District Council. The vast majority of the dwellings, though, are privately owned.
The estate was significantly enlarged in the late 1960s. Many of these later houses have flat roofs and the area gained some notoriety as Plummers Park, the setting for Leslie Thomas' Tropic of Ruislip [3], which had wife-swapping as one of its themes.
The ventriloquist Roger DeCourcey also lived on the estate in the 1970s.
[edit] Local facilities
- Carpenders Park railway station
- Attenborough Doctors' Surgery, Harrow Way
- Carpenders Park Community Hall, next to the station
- Post office and shops are Delta Gain
Other facilities may be found in South Oxhey.
[edit] Education
- St Meryl Primary School
- Woodhall School
[edit] Religion
- Carpenders Park Spiritualist Church
- Carpenders Park Church [4]
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Short History of Carpenders Park accessed 5 May 2008
- ^ Pulham in Hertfordshire accessed 5 May 2008
- ^ Three Rivers DC Towns and Villages accessed 6 May 2008
- ^ Churches near Croxley Green accessed 5 May 2008
