Colney Heath is a large village in
Hertfordshire, England. The village became a
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in 1947 when the
St. Peter Rural parish was split to form Colney Heath and
London Colney
London Colney () is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. It is located to the north of London, close to Junction 22 of the M25 motorway.
It is near St Albans and part of the St Albans District. At the time of the 2001 census ...
. There is a converted
windmill
A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications, in some ...
in the village. The civil parish also includes the settlements of
Smallford
Smallford is a village in the City and District of St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. It is sandwiched between Hatfield and St Albans. It was served by Smallford railway station on the Hatfield and St Albans Railway, now the Alban Way cyc ...
and
Sleapshyde
Sleapshyde is a small village in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. It is located between Hatfield and St Albans, to the south of Smallford and to the north of Colney Heath, of which it is located in the civil parish of. The village has one pub, The ...
.
Twinning
Colney Heath is
twinned with:
*
Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon,
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
; also a small village, and each year either French families visit Colney Heath or English families visit France.
Education
Colney Heath School is the only school in the village. It's a primary school for children aged between three and eleven.
Sport and leisure
Colney Heath has a
football club that currently competes in the
Spartan South Midlands League
The Spartan South Midlands Football League is an English football league covering Hertfordshire, northwest Greater London, central Buckinghamshire and southern Bedfordshire. It is a feeder to the Southern Football League or the Isthmian League, ...
Premier Division and plays the home matches at The Recreation Ground.
The village has a
rugby league club that also plays at The Recreation Ground.
Colney Heath also has a Taekwondo Club which trains at the village hall. The club is led by Master Kim Anderson (VII Degree) who also founded it in 1979.
Colney Heath Local Nature Reserve is located in the village.
References
External links
Colney Heath / Boissy Twinning Association
Villages in Hertfordshire
Civil parishes in Hertfordshire
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