Chipperfield

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Chipperfield
Chipperfield Green, Two Brewers pub and crossroads
Chipperfield shown within Hertfordshire
District	Dacorum
Shire county	Hertfordshire
Region	East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	WD4
Police	Hertfordshire
Fire	Hertfordshire
Ambulance	East of England
European Parliament	East of England
UK Parliament	South West Hertfordshire
List of places: UK • England • Hertfordshire

Coordinates: 51°42′14″N 0°29′26″W / 51.7039, -0.4906

Chipperfield is a village and civil parish in the Dacorum district of Hertfordshire, England, about 5 miles southwest of Hemel Hempstead and 5 miles north of Watford. The parish includes the hamlet of Tower Hill.

The village centre is a large green on the edge of nearby Chipperfield common. The former U.S. President Jimmy Carter can trace his family roots to John Carter of Jeffries Farm in Chipperfield.^[1]

1 Pubs and shops
2 The History of Chipperfield
3 Nearby places
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Pubs and shops

The Two Brewers public house faces the green and is a popular summer meeting place to drink out of doors. It was founded by Robert Waller as an ale house in 1799 originally the middle one of a row of three cottages. It eventually took over its neighbours to make a long frontage on the green. A modern hotel extension has been built to the rear. The pub acquired fame as the training quarters for many notable 19th century prize-fighters such as Jem Mace, Thomas Sayers and Bob Fitzsimmons who sparred in the Club Room and took their runs round the nearby Chipperfield Common.^[2]^[3] In addition to the Two Brewers, there are three other pubs, The Boot, The Royal Oak and The Windmill. Other facilities in the village include four shops, (one of which is an award winning delicatessen) and two garden centres.

Chipperfield has three churches - Church of England, Catholic and Baptist. It also has a primary school, St Pauls C of E, with strong ties to the church, which is located adjacent to the school. Also next to the school is a village club called Blackwell's, and tennis courts owned by CTC. Every year, a Pantomime is held in the Village Hall, which is organised by the Chipperfield Theatre Group.

[edit] The History of Chipperfield

Chipperfield during the late 19th century

For centuries Chipperfield was an outlying settlement of Kings Langley consisting only of houses. However by the 1830's Chipperfield was large enough to warrant the building of both Anglican and Baptist churches and became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1848.

Since the end of World War II the village has dramatically expanded with housing estates during the 1940s and an extensive council estate to the east of Croft Lane in the 1960s. However, since the 1980s the rate of new building has considerably diminished.