Clare Hall Manor

Ridge is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of South Mimms and Ridge, in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire, situated between Potters Bar and Shenley. At the 2011 Census population of Ridge parish was 177.It has a church, St Margaret's; a children's playground; and the Old Guinea public house, which serves food on most days. The village holds an annual fete on the August bank holiday. Ridge is surrounded by countryside with numerous public footpaths. In 1926, the parish boundary between Ridge, Hertfordshire, and South Mimms, Middlesex, was subject to a minor adjustment.Clare Hall in Ridge is a former manor house, built around 1745 by Thomas Roberts, a linen draper from St Albans. It was originally called Clay Hall and renamed Clare Hall in 1750. From 1886 to 1974, Clare Hall was used as an isolation hospital for diseases including smallpox and tuberculosis. It was taken over by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 1980 as a research laboratory. It is now part of the Francis Crick Institute.Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, the World War II commander and former Governor General of Canada, is buried in St Margaret's churchyard.

The White Hart is a Grade II listed public house in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, England. Media related to The White Hart, South Mimms at Wikimedia Commons

The Black Horse is a Grade II listed public house at 65 Blackhorse Lane in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, England. It can be dated to the early 17th century -as early as 1642- and is of red brick with a tiled roof. It has been kept in its original style, with traditional decor and original bay windows. The building was registered in 1650 alongside the blacksmith building nearby, which can still be seen in disarray among the trees on the north-eastern side. Blackhorse Lane, which may be named after the pub, is the lane along which South Mimms developed. Due to its location the Black Horse has been a popular destination to Premier league football players over the years as the training grounds of two London teams are within a short distance. The current owner takes pride in keeping the building in its old style and wishes to preserve it to future generations. The Black Horse is also a popular destination to local population and customers from some distance - for drinks and good quality mostly locally sourced food. Aside from the homes along blackhorse lane and nearby village Brookside, the building is surrounded by acres of woodland, neighboring Hatfield House. The surrounding area was and remains rural. It is said that the Black Horse pub is connected to a series of tunnels as far as St Albans. The location is often sought after for productions such as advertisements and shows in need of a traditional english pub.

South Mimms is a village and civil parish in the Hertsmere district of Hertfordshire in the East of England. It is a small settlement located near to the junction of the M25 motorway with the A1(M) motorway.

South Mimms services is a motorway service area accessible from Junction 23 of the M25 motorway which is also Junction 1 of the A1(M), in England near South Mimms, Hertfordshire. Constructed in 1986 as the first service area on the M25, it is operated by Welcome Break. It is built on the site of Bignell's Corner, named after a garden centre, Bignell and Cutbush, which was close to the junction of the old A6, and A1. At the junction there was also a pub, the Middlesex Arms, and an Esso Motor hotel, near which developed a notorious truck stop and the Beacon Cafe.

Dyrham Park Country Club is a country house, estate and golf club in Hertfordshire, England, near Dancers Hill, several miles northeast of Borehamwood, and to the north of Barnet. It is a white Palladian mansion, set in two hundred acres, with an 18-hole golf course, adjacent to East Barnet Golf Club. The estate was originally settled as a manor in Elizabethan times and the current Palladian mansion was built in the 19th century. The house was renovated in the 1960s and the golf course was established in 1963. The house has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since May 1949.

Redwell Wood is a 52.8-hectare (130-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near South Mimms in Hertfordshire. The local planning authority is Welwyn Hatfield District Council.The site has ancient and secondary woodland, heath and scrub. The woodland canopy is dominated by pedunculate oak. Ground flora include bluebells and enchanter’s-nightshade, while heathland species include heather and the rare creeping willow.There is access from Blackhorse Lane.

Saffron Green Meadows or Saffron Green Pasture is an area of public open space and farmland north of Arkley in Hertsmere, Hertfordshire, England. It is owned and managed by Hertfordshire County Council, and is part of the Watling Chase Community Forest and the London Green Belt. In the late 1990s, the area was identified as suitable for environmental management as it had been untenanted for several years, and as rough grazing pasture it was a rich and scarce ecological habitat which also had recreational potential. An archeological survey identified a pre-Roman landscape pattern, possibly dating back to the Bronze Age. In 2002-03 4.5 hectares was planted as woodland, and a tenant was found to manage the land for grazing. The 42-hectare (100-acre) site had previously had no public access, but an area of 5.5 hectares is now public open space, with a bridle way which connects with Arkley Lane, a Local Nature Reserve in Barnet. There is also public access from Galley Lane.A wide variety of wild species have been found on the site, and it is one of the largest wildlife sites in Hertsmere.Mimmshall Brook, a tributary of the River Colne, skirts the site, and the Saffron Green radio masts of Gold radio station are close by.

Dancers Hill House is a Grade II listed house in Dancers Hill, Hertfordshire, England. The current house dates from c.1750–60, with later additions, and was probably built for Charles Ross, a Westminster builder, who leased 10 acres from David Hechstetter Jr. for 80 years in 1750. The grotto north-east of the house is also Grade II listed.The house has been used as a school, and during the Second World War it was part of Camp 33, which housed Italian prisoners of war.In 2018, the owners, Nigel and Melanie Walsh, who bought the house in 1992, offered it for sale by raffle, with a winner being drawn in January 2020.

Dancers Hill is located in Hertfordshire, England, immediately south of the route of the M25 motorway. It is in the historic county of Middlesex. The disputed manor of Mandeville was said to lie on the hill and to be part of the manor of South Mimms.It is now best known for the grade II listed Dancers Hill House (c. 1750–60) and for Dancers Hill Road which runs between St Albans Road in the west and Ganwick Corner in the west via Bentley Heath. The road is joined by Baker Street on its north side and Kitts End Road on its south side. Dancers Lane runs north from Dancers Hill Road past Dancers Hill House before joining Wash Lane. Dancers Hill Farmhouse, in Dancers Lane, is also grade II listed as are the Green Dragon public house (c.1830) in St Albans Road and the nearby bridge over the Mimmshall Brook.Just to the southwest of Dancers Hill is Dyrham Park, with its Grade II listed mansion.

Elstree Rural District (until 1941 called Barnet Rural District) was a rural district in Hertfordshire, England from 1894 to 1974.

The Green Dragon is a Grade II listed public house in St Albans Road, Dancers Hill, Hertfordshire, England, on the road north from Chipping Barnet. It dates from around 1830 and is built of brick with a slate roof. http://www.highlivingbarnet.com/the-green-dragon/ http://www.thegreendragonbarnet.co.uk/