Aldenham

Aldenham is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, 3.5 miles

(5.6 km) north-east of Watford and 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of Aldenham
Radlett. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book and is one of
Hertsmere's 14 conservation areas. This secluded little village has
eight pre-19th century buildings that are listed buildings[2] and the
parish itself is largely unchanged, though buildings have been
rebuilt, since Saxon times when the majority of the land was
owned by the abbots of Westminster Abbey.

In the Index of Multiple Deprivation, the ward of Aldenham East

was ranked the least deprived ward out of 8414 in England, while
Aldenham West also featured among the least deprived three per
cent in the country. Radlett forms the eastern part of the civil
parish.

Contents Church of St John the Baptist,

Aldenham
History
Hamlets
Round Bush
Letchmore Heath
Patchetts Green
Other landmarks
Sporting and leisure amenities
Notable people The village green
References
External links

History
For most recorded history Aldenham was administered together
Aldenham
with the nearby settlement of Radlett (or at least, the Western part
of that village), which until the modern era was of comparable
size.[3] Location within Hertfordshire
Area 8.475 sq mi
In 1086 in the Domesday Book, Aldenham parish appears to have (21.95 km2 )
straddled the boundary of two ancient hundreds: Danish Hundred
Population 9,942 (2001
(East of North Watford, North of Patchetts Green)[4] and St. census)
Albans Hundred (South of Hanstead).[5] The Domesday surveyors 9,815 (2011
were recording a property ownership dispute that had been Census)[1]
ongoing for three centuries regarding heavily forested land.[6] • Density 1,173/sq mi
The Church of St John the Baptist in Aldenham village is seven (453/km2 )
hundred and fifty years old and there is good reason to believe that OS grid reference TQ138981
an earlier Saxon church stood on the site. After the Reformation
Civil parish Aldenham
the lands were sold off to the highest bidders and Aldenham is
probably smaller today than it was 500 years ago. District Hertsmere
Shire county Hertfordshire
In 1940, a German air attack damaged stained glass and removed
Region East
the "Hertfordshire Spike" – the spire on the top of the tower.
Restoration work was completed in 1951. Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Both the church and the village have been used in many films, Post town WATFORD
advertisements and television programmes, being within easy Postcode district WD25
travelling distance of Elstree Studios. These have included the film Dialling code 01923
Confessions of a Window Cleaner, BBC television series
Pathfinders, and the Coldplay music video for "Life in Police Hertfordshire
Technicolor II", to name but a few. Fire Hertfordshire
Ambulance East of England
Although it gave its name to the Aldenham Bus Works owned by UK Parliament Hertsmere
London Transport, Aldenham Works was actually located at
nearby Elstree.

Hamlets

Round Bush

Round Bush is also on the B462 road, and lies immediately to the
east, less than 300 metres (980 ft) away. Its population size and
number of buildings make it a smaller settlement.[7] However, Round
Bush has one pub[8] A more average (smaller) size hamlet, the centre
with the vast majority of the homes due to surrounding cultivated
larger sized farms – is where three roads meet at a public house.
Round Bush

Letchmore Heath

This is the largest hamlet, and is 0.8 miles (1.3 km) southeast, it is
slightly larger in population size than the village itself, see Letchmore
Heath.

Patchetts Green

Letchmore Heath green On Hilfield Lane, Patchetts Green is a hamlet of several historic
houses, including the Three Compasses public house,[9] Little
Patchetts Green Farm[10] and Patchetts Farm.[11]

The other listed buildings here are: Delrow Cottage,[12] Delrow Almshouses[13] and Garden Cottage[14]

Crossways Cottage is just northeast of the Infant School and almshouses and is opposite the junction of the
lane leading to Letchmore Heath. [15]
 Other landmarks
Close to the church stand a number of buildings of historical interest.
The earliest of these is Aldenham Social Club – a late medieval hall
house dating from around 1500. To the west of the churchyard stands
Church Farm House (16th – 18th century) and to the east the old
vicarage (now two dwellings), a fine example of early 18th century
red brick architecture.

Patchetts Green The parish of Aldenham also has two British public schools:
Aldenham School and the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School (and
associated girls school).

Wall Hall is a magnificent gothic revival mansion with a castellated façade created in the early nineteenth
century.[16]

Sporting and leisure amenities

The golf and country park is
central to the village in
Church Lane.
Aldenham Country Park is
council-owned land which is
some distance away from the
old village closer to the two
southern hamlets it has a 60
acres (24 ha) lake, Hillfield
Reservoir and is south of Aldenham Reservoir during
Aldenham Country Park
Letchmore Heath. competitive outings of mini-keelboats
between Aldenham and Elstree
Directly south of the country
park is Aldenham Sailing
Club which uses Aldenham Reservoir a 50 acres (20 ha) wide boxing glove shaped lake next to Elstree.

Notable people
Richard Platt (died 1600), brewer, founder of Aldenham School[17]
Sir Adolphus Dalrymple (1784–1866) lived at Delrow House, Aldenham.[18]

References
1. "Civil Parish population 2011" (http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/Lead
KeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11119886&c=Aldenham&d=16&e=62&g=6433514&i=1001x1003x103
2x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1477331698465&enc=1). Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for
National Statistics. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
 2. Historic England. "Aldenham Social Club (1103641)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-
list/list-entry/1103641). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 August 2012.,
Historic England. "Church (1103642)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/11
03642). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 August 2012., the only building not at
Grade II, and in fact well above Grade II* at Grade I
Historic England. "Coningesby family monument (1103643)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listi
ng/the-list/list-entry/1103643). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 August 2012.,
Historic England. "Burne family monument (1346867)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/th
e-list/list-entry/1346867). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 August 2012.,
Historic England. "Corner Cottage (1296352)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-
entry/1296352). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 August 2012. Corner Cottage,
Historic England. "Church Farm House (1346866)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-lis
t/list-entry/1346866). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 August 2012. Church
Farm House,
Historic England. "Glebe Place (1346868)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-ent
ry/1346868). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 August 2012. Glebe Place,
Historic England. "Wall Hall in Round Bush (1001455)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/th
e-list/list-entry/1001455). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 August 2012. Wall
Hall in Round Bush
3. Wratten, Donald (1997). The Book of Radlett and Aldenham (3rd edition). Baron Birch.
4. Open Domesday Online: Aldenham (Danish Hundred, Hertfordshire) (http://opendomesday.org/
place/TQ1398/aldenham/)
5. Open Domesday Online: Aldenham (St. Albans Hundred, Hertfordshire) (http://opendomesday.
org/place/TL1400/aldenham/)
6. British History Online: Aldenham (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol2/pp149-161)
7. Ordnance Survey, Get a Map website (http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.ht
m)
8. Beer In the Evening (http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/29/29049/Roundbush/Aldenha
m) Get a Map (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/15066/)
9. Historic England. "Three Compasses (1174021)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/l
ist-entry/1174021). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
10. Historic England. "Little Patchetts (1103572)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-e
ntry/1103572). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
11. Historic England. "Patchetts (1103575)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/
1103575). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
12. Historic England. "Delrow Cottage (1346911)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-
entry/1346911). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
13. Historic England. "Delrow Almshouses (1173191)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-lis
t/list-entry/1173191). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
14. Historic England. "Garden Cottage (1346909)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-
entry/1346909). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
15. Historic England. "Crossways Cottage / Four Want Ways (1103621)" (https://HistoricEngland.or
g.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1103621). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 August
2012.
16. "Wall Hall, Aldenham" (https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid
=1346897&resourceID=5). Images of England, English Heritage, National Monuments Record.
Retrieved 10 August 2013.
17. Nicholas Carlisle, "ALDENHAM near Watford" in A Concise Description of the Endowed
Grammar Schools in England, Vol. 1 (Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818), p. 528 (https://books.g
oogle.co.uk/books?id=GwsJRFnvUIAC&pg=PA528)
18. Stephen Wood, Dalrymple, Sir Adolphus John, second baronet (1784–1866) (http://www.oxford
dnb.com/view/article/53601), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press,
2004)

External links
Aldenham (A Guide to Old Hertfordshire) (http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/links/alden
ham.htm)
Aldenham (https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1398/aldenham/) in the Domesday Book

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