Hertfordshire eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 212 pages of information about Hertfordshire.

Hertfordshire eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 212 pages of information about Hertfordshire.

Coleman’s Green (11/2 mile S.E. from Wheathampstead Station, G.N.R.) is prettily situated near the “Devil’s Dyke” and Brocket Hall.  John Bunyan sometimes preached in a cottage here; a large chimney-stack, bearing an inscription, still marks the spot, unless quite recently removed.

Collier’s End is on high ground, on the Old North Road, 2 miles S.W. from Standon Station, G.E.R.  It is a very typical English hamlet.

COLNE, river. (See Introduction.)

COLNEY HEATH (1 mile S. from Smallford Station, G.N.R.) is an ecclesiastical parish.  The brick church (1844) is in Byzantine style; it has an apsidal chancel, and small N. porch and tower.  The new West Herts County Asylum is close by.

COLNEY STREET, on the main road from Radlett to St. Albans, forms an almost equilateral triangle with Park Street and Bricket Wood Stations, L.&N.W.R.  It is only a few minutes’ walk from the pretty church at Frogmore (q.v.).

Common Moor may be visited from Croxley Green (3/4 mile N.E. from Rickmansworth) for an inspection of its large paper mill.

Cooter’s End is a tiny hamlet close to the M.R. on the Bedfordshire border.

Corey’s Mill, a hamlet 1 mile N. from Stevenage Station, G.N.R., is named from an old mill, burnt in 1878.

COTTERED (3 miles W. from Buntingford) has a fine old church (Perp.).  There is a chapel on the N. side of the chancel erected by Edward Pulter; the W. tower is embattled and carries a lofty spire.  Several memorials to the Pulter and Forester families are of the seventeenth century.  The church was restored in 1886.  In the days of William I. the vill of Chodrei belonged to Walchelin, Bishop of Winchester. Cottered Lordship, a farmhouse near the village, is one of the very oldest dwellings in the county.  The writer is assured by an expert that the front door dates from 1450-80!

Cromer, a hamlet 5 miles S.W. from Buntingford, is prettily situated in a valley, in a purely agricultural district.

Cromer Hyde (11/2 mile S. from Ayot Station, G.N.R.) consists of a farmhouse, the Chequer’s Inn, and a few old and picturesque cottages.  The nearest church is 1/2 mile S.E. at the corner of Brocket Hall Park.

Croxley Green (3/4 mile N.E. from Rickmansworth) is an ecclesiastical parish near the river Chess.  The church, built fifty years ago, is late E.E. in style and has some good memorial windows.

Cuffley is a small hamlet about midway between Cheshunt and Potter’s Bar (Middlesex) Stations, but a little N. from the straight line.  The Church of St. James at Goff’s Oak (q.v.) is 1 mile E.

Cumberlow Green is 4 miles N.W. from Buntingford.

Currants Bottom, on the Bucks border, is close to Chorley Wood Station, Met.R.

Dane End, or Munden Street, is 4 miles S.W. from Standon Station, G.E.R.  The nearest church (1/2 mile N.) is at Little Munden.

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