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Sacombe
Sacombe is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district, of Hertfordshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 165. Sacombe is located about 4 miles N N W of Ware, Hertfordshire, Ware; other nearby settlements include Dane End and Sacombe Green. Religious sites There appears to have been a church in the parish in 1086, which may have been dedicated to St Mary. The present Church of England, Anglican Church of St Catherine is largely 14th Century, but was restored in 1855/56, the work being funded by Abel Smith of Woodhall Park. The building is faced with Flushwork, knapped flint and has a four-stage tower. It is a Grade II* listed building The parish of Sacombe is the smallest in the Diocese of St Albans, and forms part of the benefice of Standon and The Mundens with Sacombe, with worship shared between St Catherine's and churches at Little Munden and Standon, Hertfordshire, Standon. The church was used as a location fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacombe Green
Sacombe Green is a hamlet located to the east of the village of Sacombe, in the East Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. External links Listed buildings in Sacombe Green * http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43592 Hamlets in Hertfordshire East Hertfordshire District {{Hertfordshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parishes In Hertfordshire
This is a list of civil parishes in England, civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Hertfordshire, England. There are 128 civil parishes. List of civil parishes and unparished areas See also * List of civil parishes in England * List of settlements in Hertfordshire by population * The Hundred Parishes, a grouping of parishes in East and North Herts, NW Essex and southern Cambridgeshire References External links Office for National Statistics : Geographical Area Listings {{Hertfordshire Populated places in Hertfordshire, Civil parishes Lists of civil parishes in England, Hertfordshire Civil parishes in Hertfordshire, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of St Albans
The Diocese of St Albans forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England and is part of the wider Church of England, in turn part of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The diocese is home to more than 1.6 million people and comprises the historic Counties of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, or in terms of local government areas, Bedfordshire, Luton, Hertfordshire and parts of the London Borough of Barnet. It therefore ranges from small rural communities in villages and hamlets to major urban centres like Luton, Bedford, Watford and Hemel Hempstead, and includes suburban areas on London's outer reaches. History The diocese was founded by an Order in Council on 30 April 1877, implementing the Bishopric of St Albans Act 1875. The diocese was established from parts of the large Diocese of Rochester, extending the new bishop's jurisdiction over more than 600 parishes in the two counties of Essex and Hertfordshire. The first Bishop of St Albans was Thomas Legh Claughton, who s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dane End
Dane End is a hamlet to the north of Ware in Hertfordshire, England situated between the A602 and A10. It is within Little Munden civil parish and East Hertfordshire District Council. It has a population of around 700. Dane End means the 'valley ends' and is located where a tributary of the River Lea comes off the surrounding chalk. Little Munden church and school are sited on the hill on the north side of Dane End. Little Munden Primary School Little Munden School is a Church of England voluntary controlled primary school. It was founded in 1819 at All Saints Church by the Reverend J P Reynolds, who served as rector from 1819 to 1831. The school was designated as a Grade II listed building by English Heritage in 1984 as an early example of a parish school. Sport Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodhall Park
Woodhall Park is a Grade I listed country house near Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, England. The 18th century neo-classical building is set in a walled park in the Beane valley. It has been the home of Heath Mount School since the 1930s. History Thomas Rumbold, who was later made a baronet, acquired the Woodhall estate using the fortune he had made in India. One of his partners at Chittagong, Harry Verelst helped with the financing. The estate and its manor house were originally home to the Butler or Boteler family. The architect Thomas Leverton was commissioned by Rumbold to design a new house to replace the manor house on a nearby site. Rumbold became Governor of Madras in 1778 and made arrangements for work to continue on the house in his absence, payments being made from his account at Goslings Bank. Suffering from poor health, he returned to England in 1780. The East India Company, unhappy about the Second Anglo-Mysore War, dismissed him the following year. He continu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages In Hertfordshire
A village is a human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a Church (building), church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park is an English country house and Bletchley Park estate, estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allies of World War II, Allied World War II cryptography, code-breaking during the Second World War. During World War II, the estate housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers most importantly the German Enigma machine, Enigma and Lorenz cipher, Lorenz ciphers. The GC&CS team of codebreakers included John Tiltman, Dilwyn Knox, Alan Turing, Harry Golombek, Gordon Welchman, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Hugh Alexander, Donald Michie, W. T. Tutte, Bill Tutte and Stuart Milner-Barry. The team at Bletchley Park devised automatic machinery to help with decryption, culminating in the development of Colossus computer, Colossus, the world's first programmable digital electronic computer. Codebreaking operations at Bletchley Park ended in 1946 and al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Harris (novelist)
Robert Dennis Harris CBE (born 7 March 1957) is a British novelist and former journalist. Although he began his career in journalism and non-fiction, he is best known for his works of historical fiction. Beginning with the best-seller ''Fatherland'', Harris focused on events surrounding the Second World War, followed by works set in ancient Rome. His later works are varied in settings but are mostly set after 1870. Several of Harris's novels have been adapted into films, including '' The Ghost Writer'' (2010) and '' An Officer and a Spy'' (2019), for which he co-wrote the screenplays with director Roman Polanski, and ''Conclave'' (2024). Early life and education Robert Harris spent his childhood in a small rented house on a Nottingham council estate. His ambition to become a writer arose at an early age, from visits to the local printing plant where his father worked. Harris went to Belvoir High School in Bottesford, Leicestershire, and then King Edward VII School, Melton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enigma (2001 Film)
''Enigma'' is a 2001 espionage thriller film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Tom Stoppard. The script was adapted from the 1995 novel '' Enigma'' by Robert Harris, about the Enigma codebreakers of Bletchley Park in the Second World War. Although the story is highly fictionalised, the process of encrypting German messages during World War II and decrypting them with the Enigma is discussed in detail, and the historical event of the Katyn massacre is highlighted. It was the last film scored by John Barry. Mick Jagger appears in the background as an RAF officer between 36:32 and 36:34. Plot The story, loosely based on actual events, takes place in March 1943, when the Second World War was at its height. The cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, have a problem: the Nazi U-boats have changed one of their code reference books used for Enigma machine ciphers, leading to a blackout in the flow of vital naval signals intelligence. The British cryptanalysts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standon, Hertfordshire
Standon is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish includes the adjoining village of Puckeridge and Old Hall Green. The Grade I listed parish church of St Mary has Anglo-Saxon origins with much Victorian restoration of 1864-65 by H. and G. Godwin. The chancel contains the ornate tombs of the Tudor courtier Sir Ralph Sadler and his son Thomas Sadleir. The house Standon Lordship was built by Ralph Sadler on his estate at Standon, which he acquired in 1544; Standon remained in the possession of the Sadler family until 1660. The place-name is first attested in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 944–46 AD and means "stony hill". Standon village has many local facilities. In addition to the church, there is a village hall, two public houses, a Chinese restaurant, post office, butcher, baker, and newsagent. Villagers also make frequent use of facilities in neighbouring Puckeridge, which include a pharmacy, estate agent, petrol station, public houses, doctor's sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Munden
Little Munden or Munden-Frewell or Munden Parva is a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 952. The parish also includes the settlements of Dane End, Green End, Haultwick and Potter's Green. The Parish Church of All Saints is Grade I listed and was restored in the 19th century. There are 36 listed buildings in Little Munden. Little Munden was recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Mundane''. The manor was held by Lewin before 1086. It is surrounded by farmland, which does contain some livestock which is a sight for people to enjoy while they visit. Little Munden CC is the parish’s only sport team. See also * Little Munden Primary School * List of civil parishes in Hertfordshire *List of places in Hertfordshire This is a list of settlements in Hertfordshire by population based on the results of the 2021 census. The next United Kingdom census will take place in 2031. A * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
