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Bishop's Stortford is a market town in east Hertfordshire, England, just touching the county boundary with Essex. It is situated just west of the M11, is the closest town to London Stansted Airport, and is part of the London commuter belt, being served by Bishop's Stortford railway station on the West Anglia Main Line to London Liverpool Street. Its football club currently competes in the Conference South. In the latest annual edition of the Channel 4 'Best and Worst Places to Live in the UK' East Hertfordshire was the seventh best district to live in. It has a population of about 45,000 and is administered by the East Hertfordshire district council. The market town is a medieval phenomenon. ...
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Liverpool Street station Liverpool Street station, also called London Liverpool Street, is a mainline railway station in the north eastern corner of the City of London, in the heart of the financial district, with entrances on Bishopsgate and Liverpool Street itself. ...
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History and naming
Arms of Bishop's Stortford Town Council. There was nothing significant in the Bishop's Stortford area until it became a small Roman settlement on the Roman road of Stane Street between St Albans and Colchester. After the Roman empire broke down, the small town was abandoned. Arms of Bishops Stortford Town Council, Herts. ...
Arms of Bishops Stortford Town Council, Herts. ...
Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between 43 and 410. ...
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There are several Stane Streets in Britain - see also Stane Street (Chichester) and Roman roads in Britain Stane Street is a Roman road that connects St Albans in Hertfordshire to Colchester in Essex. ...
, St Albans is the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans in southern Hertfordshire, England, around 22 miles (35. ...
The town of Colchester is the main settlement in the East of England borough of Colchester, Essex. ...
A new Saxon development grew up on the site. At that time, the settlement was known as Esterteferd, probably because a family called Estere owned or controlled the river crossing around which the settlement was based. Over time, this became Stortford. In 1060, William, Bishop of London bought the Stortford manor and estate for 8 pounds, and the town has been known as Bishop's Stortford ever since. At the time of the Domesday book the town had a population of around 120. The Normans built a wooden castle in the town, but by the Tudor period it was in ruins (the mound still remains). Development of the town increased with the presence of a river and the roads. A weekly market was set up for farmers to sell their goods. For other uses, see Anglo-Saxon. ...
Arms of the Bishop of London The Bishop of London is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury. ...
A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ...
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Despite outbreaks of the plague in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the town continued to grow with an approximate population of 1,200 by this point. The bubonic plague or bubonic fever is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis. ...
Unusually, the River Stort is named after the town, and not the town after the river. When cartographers came to the town in the early 1600s, they reasoned that the town must have been named for the ford over the Stort and assumed the river was called the Stort. Ever since, it has been. Until then, there was no official name for the river. A canalised river running 22km from the town of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire downstream to its junction with the River Lee Naviation, near Ware, Hertfordshire. ...
After 1769 the River Stort was made navigable, further transport links improved the town when the town was made a stagecoach stop on the road between Cambridge and London. Stagecoach in Switzerland A stagecoach is a type of four-wheeled enclosed passenger and/or mail coach, strongly sprung and drawn by four horses, widely used before the introduction of railway transport. ...
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By 1801 Bishop's Stortford had become a market town, a corn exchange had been established, whilst the main industry was malting. In 1842 the railway came to Bishop's Stortford; another Victorian era introduction was the opening of a hospital in 1895. Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her accession to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of the United Kingdom marked the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, in 1901, the population was over 7,000. By 1951, Bishop's Stortford had expanded further to 13,000. During World War II, Bishop's Stortford was the evacuation center for many Britons, including the entire Clapton Girls Technology College. The second half of the twentieth century saw further growth as it became a commuter town. The M11 motorway, nearby Stansted Airport, and the train links to London and Cambridge have contributed to the town having a population of around 35,000 in the late 1990s but now in the early 21st century the population is around 45,000 with further growth expected. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
Clapton Girls Technology College is a secondary school located in Hackney, London, England. ...
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Terminal building, designed by Sir Norman Foster Stansted Airport is a medium-sized passenger airport with a single runway, located in the English county of Essex about thirty miles north of London. ...
Currently, the town centre is undergoing many changes, with the demolition of the old multi-storey car-park and surrounding area to make way for a new town centre area and the building of new flats. The developments are happening quickly and are almost finished. There are many plans for further expansion and development of the town due to its continued growth and the expected enlargement of Stansted Airport. The lawn in front of Stansted Airport used to attract large numbers of people waiting for their flight during the summer. ...
Bishop's Stortford is useful for a large number of Herts and Essex villages in its area, as most of the nearby towns (excluding Harlow) are small and Bishop's Stortford serves as a common ground for meeting, shopping, and entertainment. For the similarly named county in the West Midlands region, see Herefordshire. ...
Essex is a county in the East of England. ...
Harlow is a new town and local government district in Essex, England. ...
Politics The town is generally seen as a conservative area, and this can be backed up by the fact that in the 2005 national elections Mark Prisk was elected for the Conservative Party with a majority of the votes cast (50.5%) and conservative parties (including United Kingdom Independence Party) gained 53.8% - although general election results cannot be used as a way of measuring the ideological stance of the constituents, and the fact that the constituency Bishop's Stortford is in covers many other settlements, including Hertford. A recent addition to the Conservatives' new shadow cabinet under new leader David Cameron is also from the town. Ths article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ...
The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ...
The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced //) is a British political party. ...
Hertford (standard pronunciations /hÉ‘tÖ½fÉ™d/ and /hÉ‘Ö½fÉ™d/; local pronunciation /[h]É‘ËʔֽfÉ™d/) is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is in the East Hertfordshire district of that county. ...
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The most popular political issue for the town is the expansion of Stansted Airport and opposition to any new runways or any kind of growth taking place there (there are no pro-expansion lobbies).
The town also has a Youth Council that meets up once a month. It is made up of students from the local schools where many local and youth issues are discussed.
Economy Bishop's Stortford is a particularly affluent area and this is partly due to the town's status as a commuter town for the (mainly financial) workers in London. The town is also home to many people working in the tourist related industry, including hotels, catering and airline staff, because it is the closest large town to Stansted Airport. In total, about 85% work in the services sector (2001 census). Bishop's Stortford is served by a variety of shops, both high street chains and long-established family firms. The main retail streets are South, Potter, North, Hockerill Streets. Jackson Square is a modern shopping complex in which recent development has just been completed. Market days are Thursday and Saturday.
Transport and services Bishop's Stortford owes its growth to developments in transport. It is well serviced by all forms of transport:
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‘one’ is the brand name of London Eastern Railway Ltd, which operates local, suburban and express services from London Liverpool Street in the City of London to East and North London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and East Anglia, otherwise known as the Greater Anglia network. ...
Rail Bishop's Stortford station is on the London Liverpool Street to Cambridge mainline operated by 'one'. The Stansted Express services take around 40 minutes to reach London Liverpool Street and allow Bishop's Stortford to be part of the London Commuter Belt. However it can run very slow at times. Bishops Stortford railway station Serves the town of Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire External links Train times and station information for Bishops Stortford railway station from National Rail Street map and aerial photo of Bishops Stortford railway station from Multimap. ...
Liverpool Street station Liverpool Street station, also called London Liverpool Street, is a mainline railway station in the north eastern corner of the City of London, in the heart of the financial district, with entrances on Bishopsgate and Liverpool Street itself. ...
The front of Cambridge station, showing the arms of several Cambridge Colleges Cambridge railway station is a railway station serving the city of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England. ...
The West Anglia Main Line is one of the two main lines which run from London Liverpool Street, the other being the Great Eastern Main Line. ...
‘one’ is the brand name of London Eastern Railway Ltd, which operates local, suburban and express services from London Liverpool Street in the City of London to East and North London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and East Anglia, otherwise known as the Greater Anglia network. ...
Stansted Express is the direct train service linking central London (Liverpool Street station) to Stansted Airport, one of Londons major air hubs. ...
Liverpool Street station Liverpool Street station, also called London Liverpool Street, is a mainline railway station in the north eastern corner of the City of London, in the heart of the financial district, with entrances on Bishopsgate and Liverpool Street itself. ...
Commuters from East Anglia arrive at Londons Liverpool Street station The London commuter belt is the metropolitan area surrounding London from which it is possible to commute to work in the capital. ...
Road Bishop's Stortford is close to junction 8 of the M11 motorway, which runs from London and the M25 north to Cambridge, and the town is a frequent stop-off point for travellers using the nearby Stansted airport. To the north of the town is the A120, which meets the A10 at Buntingford to the west and the A12 at Colchester to the east. This page is about the M11 motorway in England. ...
The M25 motorway looking south between junctions 14 and 15, near Heathrow Airport. ...
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The A10 is a major road in England. ...
Buntingford is a small market town in the district of East Hertfordshire, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. ...
The A12 is a major road in England, a trunk road for most of its length, running from London to Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. ...
The town of Colchester is the main settlement in the East of England borough of Colchester, Essex. ...
Air Stansted Airport is on the town's doorstep, with easy transport via rail between there and the town. This airport mainly flies to Europe and is the third largest airport serving London. Terminal building, designed by Sir Norman Foster Stansted Airport is a medium-sized passenger airport with a single runway, located in the English county of Essex about thirty miles north of London. ...
Bus The town has many bus routes, including the 308/309 main bus route for travel within Bishop's Stortford and to Stansted Airport. Other, longer routes like the 510 (Stansted Airport - Harlow) and 333 (Stansted - Epping) link Bishop's Stortford with other nearby towns. Harlow is a new town and local government district in Essex, England. ...
High Street in Epping Epping is a market town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of the county of Essex in the United Kingdom. ...
Water Water for the town is supplied by Three Valleys Water. The water is classed as very hard with over 345 mg/l of minerals and 0.225 mg/l of fluoride. Three Valleys Water plc is a privately-owned company supplying water to parts of Hertfordshire and Surrey, in England. ...
Famous inhabitants Bishop's Stortford is the birthplace of Cecil Rhodes, the son of the vicar of St. Michael's Church in the town. Rhodes was born in 1853 and was the effective founder of the state of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), De Beers diamond company and the Rhodes Scholarship. There is a museum for him within the house that he lived in. Image File history File links CecilRhodes. ...
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Cecil Rhodes Cecil John Rhodes, PC, DCL, (July 5, 1853 – March 26, 1902[1]) was a British-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. ...
Southern Rhodesia, todays Zimbabwe. ...
De Beers, founded in South Africa by Cecil Rhodes, comprises companies involved in rough diamond exploration, diamond mining and diamond trading. ...
Rhodes House in Oxford, designed by Sir Herbert Baker. ...
Martin Caton, the MP for Gower was also born in Bishop's Stortford. Martin Caton (born June 15, 1951) is a Welsh Labour politician. ...
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Bishop's Stortford is also home to musician Jon Thorne. Jon Thorne (born 12 December 1967) is an English double bassist based in Heaton Norris, Stockport. ...
It is also the birthplace of Frederick Scott Archer who invented the collodion process, the first photographic emulsion used to create glass negatives. Frederick Scott Archer (1813-1857) invented the photographic collodion process which preceded the modern gelatin emulsion. ...
The collodion process is an early photographic process which gave way in the late 19th century to todays gelatin emulsion process. ...
Photography [fәtɑgrәfi:],[foʊtɑgrәfi:] is the process of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a film or electronic sensor. ...
Although not strictly a famous inhabitant, Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, owned land in Bishop's Stortford, though there is no record of his having visited the town. The town's Richard Whittington Primary School and the road Whittington Way are both named after him. Sir Richard Whittington and his Cat Richard Whittington (c1350 — 1423), medieval merchant and politician, was the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character, Dick Whittington. ...
Edward Thomas MacIntosh, the famous Shakespearean actor in 1924, also lived in the area. He became the MP for the constituency in March 1928, and later went on to live in Bermuda, where he gradually achieved the status of being General Wong's chief advisor. Later on in his life, he left Bermuda to start up his own brand of ice cream.
Mark Christian Taylor (aka. Mac Daddy), 5 time male model of the year from 1997-2002 also lived in the area. Unfortunately he was murdered while on the catwalk while doing a fashion show. As well as modelling, he created his own range of, "Mark Taylor," underwear.
Twin towns Bishop's Stortford is twinned with the following towns: Sign denoting twin towns of Neckarsulm, Germany Town twinning is a concept whereby towns or cities in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links. ...
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Education The county council (Hertfordshire) is responsible for education. Being in England, Bishop's Stortford follows the English schools model of primary, secondary, and further education. There are 13 primary and 5 secondary schools (two of which are single sex). The town does not have any further education colleges for post 16 education, as all post 16 education is received at the secondary schools in the form of sixth form. England, Wales, Northern Ireland The sixth form, in the English, Welsh and Northern Irish education systems, is the term used to refer to the final two years of secondary schooling (when students are about sixteen to eighteen years of age), during which students normally prepare for their GCE A-level...
There is also an independent school, the Bishop's Stortford College [1], which covers the whole educational spectrum from the ages of 4 to 18, and provides facilities which are enjoyed by the whole town. The College Memorial Hall Bishops Stortford College is a public school, with a 130-acre campus located on the edge of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. ...
Many of the secondary schools in the Bishop's Stortford area have gained special college status, variously for technology, sciences, languages or performing arts. Secondary schools include St Mary's Catholic School, Birchwood High School, Hockerill Anglo-European College, The Bishop's Stortford High School (commonly referred to as the 'Boys High')[2] and The Hertfordshire and Essex High School. The latter two schools are single sex schools, for boys and girls respectively, although both have mixed gender sixth-forms. Hockerill Anglo-European College is an international state boarding school located in Bishops Stortford (ca. ...
The Bishop’s Stortford High School is a six-form all-ability secondary school, with an integrated sixth form, located in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, UK. The School admits boys aged 11 to 16 in the first five forms, with a mixed sixth form of boys and girls aged...
The Hertfordshire and Essex High School (Herts and Essex) is a Secondary level school on Warwick Road in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. ...
Leisure and entertainment
Sports Bishop's Stortford has many sports facilities, including the Grange Paddocks Pool & Gym, and various leagues are based in the town. Sporting facilities consist of the Bishop's Stortford rugby club[3], the cricket club, the hockey club [4], the tennis club [5], the squash club [6], the swimming club [7] and the Bishop's Stortford Golf Club. Bishop's Stortford also boasts two football teams - Bishop's Stortford F.C., who play in the Conference South, and Bishop's Stortford Swifts F.C., who play in the Essex Olympian Football League. Bishops Stortford F.C. are a football(soccer) club based in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, currently members of the Conference South (since 2004). ...
Conference South (currently billed as Blue Square Southern for sponsorship reasons) is one of the second divisions of the Football Conference in England, taking its place immediately below the Conference National. ...
Bishops Stortford Swifts F.C. is a football club based in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. ...
The Baliston Essex Olympian Football League is a football competition based in England. ...
In nearby Thorley, there is a cricket club Thorley CC. Thorley could be Thorley, Isle of Wight Thorley, Hertfordshire Dianne Thorley Wilfrid Thorley Categories: | ...
Other Located in the town centre is Anchor Street Entertainment, a multiplex which hosts an Empire cinema, a bowling alley with a bar and arcade, Cannon's Health Club, and a McDonald's. Bowling is the common name for several sports that involve rolling a ball towards a target or to knock down pins. ...
McDonalds Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the worlds largest chain of fast-food restaurants, primarily selling hamburgers, chicken, french fries, milkshakes and soft drinks. ...
There are only a few nightlife-spots in Bishop's Stortford including a Chicago Rock Cafe, a couple of nightclubs; Flaunt and JR's and an over 22's club called The Attic. There is also The Terrace wine bar open during the summer months with food and live and DJ music on Friday and Saturdays till 12.30. The popular restaurant, Host, has recently (December 2006) opened a private members' bar above their restaurant in the Corn Exchange building. The bar is open to members and their guests until 1am, or 2am on Fridays and Saturdays. Chicago Rock Cafe is a chain of American style bar/diner restaurants in the UK. Inspired by the worldwide Hard Rock Cafe brand, it offers a combination of a themed dining experience with late night drinking and disco style entertainment. ...
The Rhodes Arts Complex [8] benefitted from a lottery grant in 2006 and is now the main venue for live music and theatre.
In early 2007, Cluzion Music was set up to host a monthly Jazz Club in Bishop's Stortford. The Cluzion Jazz Club is hosted by local Jazz Pianist Peter Lemer and displays phenominal musicianship in all degress of Jazz. Sponsored by RealLife Music , the club is held at the Hume Theater at St. Mary's, Wind Hill on the last Saturday of month. Peter Lemer (born June 14, 1942) is a British jazz musician. ...
Apart from that, the closest to a live music venue in Bishop's Stortford, supporting rock, blues and folk bands is The Half Moon at the top end of North Street. It is a cosy, traditional and somewhat untouched pub that has a reasonably small back-room with stage.
Bishops's Stortford is where the youth choir Cantate is based; the choir holds many concerts in the surrounding area, including numerous in the town itself.
Being a market town, Bishop's Stortford also has many large public houses within the town centre, most notably The Boars Head in the High Street (rumoured to date back to the early 1400s was once visited by the famous diarist Samuel Pepys) offers hostel accommodation, live sporting events and delicious food served all day.
Climate
 Climate graph of Bishop's Stortford. Being in the south east of England, the town enjoys a warmer climate than most of the United Kingdom and has some of the hottest summers in Britain; it is also one of the driest places in the country. Temperatures may sometimes reach the mid-30s celsius in the summer. Snow is often seen in the winter months because the town is near to the east coast, where cold, moist air is brought in from the North Sea. In recent years there has been up to three inches of snow early in the year which has resulted in minor disruption to transport and caused some schools to close for several days. However, the snow tends not to persist for a significant length of time in any noticeable quantity. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (844x536, 39 KB) Summary file created by me (sclaydonuk) Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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Shootings 2007 On 28th August 2007 2 men and a teenager were shot dead at '2 Plaw Hatch Close' in Bishop's Stortford. 2 women were seriously injured in the attack that was around 21:35 pm. The men killed were named as Keith Cowell, 52, and his son Matthew, 17, who died alongside 33-year-old Tony Dulieu, of Billericay. Keith Cowell's wife Nicole had left for work at Stansted Airport 10 minutes before the attack. A three year old girl called 'Angel' was thought to have been in the house at the time of the shooting. chief Supt Al Thomas, of Hertfordshire Police, said "We share the concern and sense of shock within the community. "Early information suggests this was a targeted incident and not a random attack." Post-mortem examinations were conducted on the three bodies on Wednesday 29 but the results have not yet been made public. Police presence was dramatically increased after the incident in and around the town. The community was shocked badly as crime rates in the town are well below the national average.
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