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Chorleywood is a town in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. It has a population of around 9,200 people. The town lies in the far south west of Hertfordshire, on the historic border with Buckinghamshire. Chorleywood is part of the London commuter belt as is located 19.8 miles (31.8 km) north west of Charing Cross in London. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
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Three Rivers is a local government district in Hertfordshire, England. ...
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Hertfordshire (pronounced Hartfordshire and abbreviated as Herts) is an inland county in the United Kingdom, officially part of the East of England Government region. ...
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Hertfordshire (pronounced Hartfordshire and abbreviated as Herts) is an inland county in the United Kingdom, officially part of the East of England Government region. ...
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Hertfordshire (pronounced Hartfordshire and abbreviated as Herts) is an inland county in the United Kingdom, officially part of the East of England Government region. ...
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Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town In American English, a town is usually a municipal corporation that is smaller than a city but larger than a village. ...
Three Rivers is a local government district in Hertfordshire, England. ...
Hertfordshire (pronounced Hartfordshire and abbreviated as Herts) is an inland county in the United Kingdom, officially part of the East of England Government region. ...
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In a 2004 survey of neighbourhoods carried out by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Chorleywood West was found to be the parish in England with the highest quality of life. Of the 32,482 neighbourhoods surveyed, Chorleywood West came out top using thirty-seven criteria. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is a department of the British government. ...
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In the early 1960s, researchers at the British Baking Industries Research Association in Chorleywood improved upon an earlier American bread making process. This resulted in the Chorleywood Bread Process, which is now used in over 80% of commercial bread production throughout the world.
Chorleywood Common
Chorleywood Common is a tract of 200 acres (0.8 km²) of wooded common land. The common is a County Heritage Site, and is home to significant biodiversity. Since cattle grazing ended soon after the First World War, the land has been used for recreational purposes. Chorleywood Golf Club maintains a nine-hole golf course on the Common. In the 19th Century, the MCC established a cricket pitch on the Common, which is used by senior and junior teams to this day. Common land, or just common, is frequently used to describe a parcel of land, usually near the centre of towns and villages, which is thought to be owned in common by all the members of the community. ...
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History Settlement at Chorleywood dates to the Paleolithic era, when the plentiful flint supply led to swift development of tools by early man. The Romans built a small village on the ancient site, complete with a mill and brewery. Ruins of a Roman villa are thought to be found under the M25, which passes through the outskirts of Chorleywood. The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (Greek παλαιός paleos=old and λίθος lithos=stone or the Old Stone Age) was the first period in the development of human technology of the Stone Age. ...
Pebble beach made up of flint nodules eroded out of the nearby chalk cliffs, Cape Arkona, Rügen Flint (or flintstone) is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline silica rock with a glassy appearance. ...
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A large influx of Saxon settlers in Chorleywood led to it being an important town. The Saxons called it 'Cerola Leah', meaning a meadow in a clearing. Through Chorleywood runs the line that once divided the Kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex and now divides the counties of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Edward the Confessor gave the town of Chorleywood to the Monastery of St Albans. This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
Mercia, sometimes spelled Mierce, was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, in what is now England, in the region of the Midlands, with its heart in the valley of the River Trent and its tributary streams. ...
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By the thirteenth century, it was known as 'Bosco de Cherle' or 'Churl's Wood', Norman for 'Peasant's Wood'. Upon the Reformation, it passed to the Bishopric of London, being renamed 'Charleywoode'. It became Crown property during the reign of Elizabeth I. The Turnpike Act (1663) gave Chorleywood a chance to exploit its strategic position, allowing locals the opportunity to charge civilians to use the road from Hatfield to Reading. The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ...
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Chorleywood is most famous for its Quakers. Non-conformists flocked to Chorleywood, promised sanctuary by the locals. William Penn founded the Pennsylvania Colony with settlers from Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, and nearby towns in southern Buckinghamshire. Despite this claim to fame, the massive exodus to the New World plunged Chorleywood into financial ruin. The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers or Friends, is a religious community who do not have a universal set of doctrines to which all members subscribe but who embrace certain concepts that have been adopted by consensus. ...
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However, with the boom in the paper and printing industries, on which much of southwestern Hertfordshire's economy was based in the 19th Century, came new prosperity. The extension of the Metropolitan Line to Chorleywood in the 1890s brought with it incredible population growth. From a population of 1,500 people in 1897, the population has grown to over 9,000 today. In 1913, the town's name became 'Chorleywood'.
Politics The Hertfordshire County Council is controlled by the Conservatives. At the County Council, Chorleywood is represented by Leonard Spencer, of the Conservatives. The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right-of-centre in the United Kingdom. ...
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The local council, Three Rivers District Council, is controlled by the Liberal Democrats. At the District Council, Chorleywood is represented by three Liberal Democrats (Harry Davies, Chris Brearley, and Martin Trevett) and two Conservatives (Chris Hayward and Leonard Spencer). Three Rivers is a local government district in Hertfordshire, England. ...
Chorleywood is a part of the parliamentary constituency of Hertfordshire South West. The major perennial political issues in Chorleywood are conservation of the Common, planning and the preservation of the Green Belt, and education. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ...
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Demographics According to the 2001 census, Chorleywood has a resident population of 9,215, of whom: - 19.8% are under 16 years of age (cf. 20.2% for England & Wales)
- 10.0% are over 75 years of age (cf. 7.6%)
- 64.5% are married (cf. 50.9%)
- 4.5% are divorced (cf. 8.2%)
- 1.8% are unemployed (cf. 3.4%)
- 4.8% are full-time students over 16 years of age (cf. 5.1%)
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Ethnicity - 92.3% are White (cf. 92.3%)
- 1.4% are Irish (cf. 1.3%)
- 4.2% are Indian or British Indian (cf. 2.1%)
- 1.0% are Other Asian or Other British Asian (cf. 2.5%)
- 0.4% are Black or Black British (cf. 2.1%)
- 0.8% are Chinese or of another race (cf. 0.9%)
- 1.3% refused to categorise themselves or are of mixed race (cf. 1.3%)
Religion - 71.1% are Christian (cf. 71.8%)
- 3.3% are Jewish (cf. 0.5%)
- 3.2% are Hindu (cf. 1.1%)
- 1.3% are Muslim (cf. 3.0%)
- 0.9% are of another religion (cf. 1.1%)
- 13.7% are of no religion (cf. 14.8%)
- 6.5% refused to categorise themselves (cf. 7.7%)
The results of the Census emphasised the affluence of the town:
- 37.6% of residents have degrees or a better educational qualification (cf. 19.8%)
- 88.3% of homes are owned by the occupant (cf. 68.9%)
- 56.82% of households own two or more cars (cf. 29.4%)
- The average number of rooms per house is 7.0 (cf. 5.3)
Transport The town has grown remarkably in the past seventy years, thanks primarily to the extension of the Metropolitan line of the London Underground. Junction 18 of the M25 motorway, with the A404, is in Chorleywood. The Metropolitan Line is part of the London Underground. ...
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The M25 motorway looking south between junctions 14 and 15, near Heathrow Airport. ...
Chorleywood station is in Zone B on the Metropolitan line, situated between Chalfont and Latimer and Rickmansworth. The majority of trains passing through Chorleywood are operated by London Underground, but the station is also a stop for Chiltern Railways services running between Marylebone and Aylesbury stations. Chorleywood station is a London Underground station in Travelcard Zone B on the Metropolitan line. ...
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Rickmansworth is a London Underground and National Rail station in the town of Rickmansworth, in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire just north of London. ...
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The main entrance to Marylebone station. ...
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