Northaw and Cuffley is 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 the

Welwyn Hatfield The Borough of Welwyn Hatfield is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in southern Hertfordshire, England, governed by Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council. It covers the two towns of Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield, Hertfordshire, ...

borough of

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, England. Located approximately north of central London and adjacent to the

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boundary, it is a partly urbanised parish with large sections of open land. Northaw and Cuffley is a recent renaming of the ancient parish of Northaw, covering the settlements of

Northaw Northaw is a village in the Welwyn Hatfield district of Hertfordshire, England. It is part of the civil parish of Northaw and Cuffley (where at the 2011 Census the population was included), which was originally known as Northaw. The parish ha ...

and

Cuffley Cuffley is a village in the civil parish of Northaw and Cuffley, in the Welwyn Hatfield district of south-east Hertfordshire located between Cheshunt and Potters Bar. It has a population of just over 4,000 people. and is part of Broxbourne ...

. The local council is Northaw and Cuffley Parish Council.

History

Northaw was an

ancient 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 authority. ...

in the Cashio Hundred of the county of Hertfordshire. It formed part of the

Hatfield Rural District Hatfield Rural District was a rural district in Hertfordshire, England, from 1894 to 1974, covering an area in the south of the county. Evolution The district had its origins in the Hatfield Rural Sanitary District. This had been created und ...

from 1894, when the parish council was created. The parish was within the

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and was part of the review area of the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, however it did not form part of the proposed

area. The Hatfield Rural District was abolished in 1974 and the parish become part of the

district. The parish was renamed Northaw and Cuffley on 10 March 1982. In 1994 there was a change to the boundary with Greater London when some land was gained from the

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and the boundary became aligned to the

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. The parish was removed from the Metropolitan Police District in 2000. Following a successful petition by the district council, in 2005 Welwyn Hatfield became a borough and the district council became a borough council.

Government

The local council is Northaw and Cuffley Parish Council. The parish council offices are located on Maynard Place, Cuffley. Eight councillors are elected to the council. Northaw and Cuffley is a ward of the borough of Welwyn Hatfield and elects three councillors to

Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council Welwyn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also includes the villages of Digswell and Oaklands. It is sometimes referred to as Old Welwyn or Welwyn Village, to distinguish it from the much newer and larger se ...

. For elections to

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, the parish is within the Hatfield Rural county division, which covers an area larger than the parish and elects one councillor. Although the rest of Welwyn Hatfield forms a constituency for elections to the

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, Northaw and Cuffley is instead part of the

Broxbourne Broxbourne is a town and former civil parish, now in the unparished area of Hoddesdon, in the Broxbourne district, in Hertfordshire, England, north of London, with a population of 15,303 at the 2011 Census.Broxbourne Town population 2011 I ...

constituency. For elections to the

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it was part of the

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constituency.

Geography

The civil parish is located approximately north of central London and is adjacent to the Greater London boundary to the south. It is within the

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and has large sections of protected open land. The parish includes the settlements of

and

. For postal addresses, the parish is within the EN6 postcode district of the Potters Bar

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Demography

The parish had a population of 5,190 according to the 2001 census, most of whom live in

References

External links

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