Cole Green, Hertfordshire

Cole Green railway station was a station at Cole Green, Hertfordshire, England, on the Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway. It was a passenger station from 1858 until 18 June 1951, also serving the hamlet of Letty Green.It is now a picnic spot on the Cole Green Way footpath and cycle trail.The station was used in the film The Lady with a Lamp (1951). Florence Nightingale arrives at the station near her home. The train is hauled by the early steam locomotive Lion, with three four-wheeler passenger coaches, two of them named Experience and Huskisson.

Letty Green is a village in the parish of Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire, England. St John’s Church, Letty Green, the deconsecrated former parish church, is a grade II listed building, and Woolmer's Park country house is grade II* listed and was the source for the name of Woolmers Estate in Tasmania.

St John's Church, Letty Green, is a deconsecrated Gothic Revival church in Letty Green, Hertfordshire, England. The building was designed by George Fowler Jones. It was given a heritage listing (Grade II) in the 1960s. It went on the market in 2001 with planning permission for conversion to residential use. It has since been converted.

Pishiobury, sometimes spelled Pishobury, was a manor and estate in medieval Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. Its denomination as "Pishiobury" only emerged in the mid to late 19th century.

Woolmers Park is a Grade II* listed building in Hertfordshire, England. It was the residence of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne in the 1920s. It was acquired by Arthur Lucas in 1949, and the Hertfordshire Polo Club was established within the grounds.

Panshanger was a large country house located between the outer edge of Hertford and Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England.

Panshanger Aerodrome (ICAO: EGLG) was a former general aviation aerodrome located on the most eastern tip of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, 2.5 NM (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) west of Hertford, East Hertfordshire.

Marden Hill is a Grade II* listed country house close to the village of Tewin, Hertfordshire.The house, originally Jacobean but substantially rebuilt in the 18th-century and modified in the 19th, is built in two storeys with attics of yellow brick with Portland stone dressings. The floor plan is square with five bays and a two-storey Ionic entrance porch at the front.

Hatfield Hyde Halt was a halt-layout railway station. The station was part of the Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway, near the garden city of Welwyn, which was established in 1920, by which time Hatfield Hyde Halt had long been closed.

Essendon is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire 6 miles (10 km), south-west of Hertford. The village is on the B158 road 330 feet (100 m) above sea level and has a view of the Lea Valley to the north. Although on an ancient site, St Mary's parish church dates mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries and was restored in 1883. The west tower dates from the 15th century and has eight bells, the oldest cast in 1681. The church contains an unusual Wedgwood ceramic font dated 1780 and several brasses and monuments. In 1916 the east end of the church was damaged by a bomb dropped by the German Navy Zeppelin L-16; two sisters were killed. There is a village pub named The Rose and Crown. Historic houses in the parish include Camfield Place which was the home of the novelist Barbara Cartland and visited by Beatrix Potter. Nearby is Holwell Court, a Grade II listed building, built in about 1900 for Sir Ernest George; it is now converted to private apartments. Essendon Place was the seat of the Barons Dimsdale of Russia; Thomas Dimsdale was an expert on the treatment of smallpox by inoculation and in 1768 he was invited to Russia to inoculate Catherine the Great. For his services there he was made a baron of the Russian Empire.Bedwell Park is another manor house near to the village and is also the site of Essendon Country Club golf club. Bedwell End was the home of Deneys Reitz, High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa, until his death on 19 October 1944. At the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War he joined the Boer forces at the age of seventeen and accompanied General J. C. Smuts on his famous raid in the Cape Colony, of which Reitz wrote in his autobiography, Commando. In World War I, as a lieutenant-colonel, he commanded the 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front in France. In the early morning of 3 September 1916 during World War I, several houses were destroyed and the church damaged, when Schütte-Lanz SL 11, a German airship returning from a bombing raid on London, jettisoned its remaining bombs. Two sisters, Frances (26), a Post Office telephonist, and Eleanor (12) Bamford, daughters of the village blacksmith, were killed. A plaque commemorating the event is on the wall of the church, where their funeral was also held. The airship was shot down shortly afterwards, while still over Hertfordshire, by Lieutenant Leefe Robinson, killing the entire crew. Robinson received the Victoria Cross for his action.Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is named after the village. Richard Green (1808-1878), whose father Isaac Green was either owner or tenant of Essendon watermill on the River Lea, arrived in Victoria in the 1850s and gave the name to the district.

Tewin is an English village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England between the towns of Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Welwyn (village) and the county town Hertford, it is within commuting distance of London. Tewin Wood is a very affluent residential area in Tewin and ranked amongst the most expensive streets in the UK with average property prices in most streets well in excess of £1.5 million. The population of Tewin Parish was 1,438 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 1,487 at the 2011 Census. Tewin village has a population of approximately half that of the whole parish, 720.

Tewinbury is a 7.5-hectare (19-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Tewin in Hertfordshire. The local planning authority is East Hertfordshire District Council, and the site is managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife TrustThe site borders the River Mimram. It has alluvial meadows and marshes which are rare in lowland Britain. There are areas of swamp and tall fens, with plants including butterbur and angelica. Otters have been observed on the riverbank, in possibly the only site in the county. There is also an area of ash and willow woodland. There is a lagoon which has a two storey hide for observing birds and water voles.Access to the site is in the drive to the Tewin Bury Farm Hotel on Hertford Road. There is a car park, which also serves the hotel, but no public access apart from the hide and a small area called Orchard Meadow behind the car park.