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Chesterford Park Research Station
Chesterford Park Research Station was a crop protection research centre in Essex. It is now a science park with biotechnology companies. History The 808 acres of the Chesterford Park Estate was put up for sale in June 1950, owned by Werner Göthe since around 1930. Pest Control Ltd of Bourn in south-west Cambridgeshire, bought the Little Chesterford Park site in 1952. The Bourn site made crop spraying equipment. Fisons bought Pest Control Ltd in early 1954. Elwyn Parry-Jones was the site's first technical director, who died in July 1965. In September 1964, the site started research work with Boots. Genetic resistance by insects to insecticides was increasing in the late 1960s. By the late 1960s, the site had around 220 staff. From the 1970s, the director of the site was Charles Edwards. By the late 1980s, there were around 500 staff. The site is accessed via the B184 from junction 9 of the M11 motorway. Ownership Boots and Fisons joined divisions in 1980 to form FBC Limited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Chesterford
Little Chesterford is a small village and civil parish in Uttlesford, Essex, in the East of England. Close to the Cambridgeshire border, it is built principally along a single sunken lane to the east of a chalk stream tributary of the River Cam or Granta (river), Granta and is located southeast of Great Chesterford and some northwest of Saffron Walden. The small hamlet of Springwell is just to the south of the village. Up the hill to the east is Chesterford Park, with a mid-19th-century mansion in a estate and now a science park called Chesterford Research Park. The wide and relatively deep valley of the river Cam provides a rolling landscape of chalky boulder clay with extensive and wide views. The surrounding farmland is mostly in intensive arable use, and except for areas alongside the river, some of which are liable to flooding, it is classified as being of grade 2 quality. The grouping of the church, manor house and village hall form the heart of the village. The church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
