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2024-03-29T14:55:13+00:00text/html2007-05-13T18:28:54+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge51.772373 -0.230328TL2209 : The A1M looking north at Hatfield
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/432322
This view taken from the pedestrian footbridge just north of the Hatfield tunnel. The junction ahead is for Hertford and Welwyn Garden City.text/html2007-05-13T18:10:21+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge51.772218 -0.231928TL2209 : Allotments at Hatfield
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/432291
These allotments serve Hatfield Garden Village and have done since the 1930s. They are on a triangle of land contained between the A1M Green Lanes and farmland in the north.text/html2007-05-13T17:45:47+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge52.046936 -0.023648TL3540 : High Street, Royston
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/432255
The Chequers and The Bull public houses on the right and some fine restoration work to the cottages on the left which won a Civic Award from North Herts District Council in 1978text/html2007-03-27T17:47:55+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge51.797731 -0.224404TL2212 : Pond by Valley Road, Welwyn Garden City
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/379019
text/html2007-03-23T22:05:16+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge52.044675 -0.022873TL3540 : Thatched Cottages, Royston
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These cottages situated on the A10, Ermine Street as it enters the town from the south once contained the Three Horseshoes public house.text/html2007-03-23T21:54:10+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge52.039921 -0.028915TL3539 : Wicker Hall Reservoir, Royston
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/374884
Fine views across the town and on into Cambridgeshire from up here.text/html2007-03-23T21:36:38+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge52.050188 -0.024526TL3540 : Banyers Lodge, Royston
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/374860
Part of the Palace estate of King Charles I. A Grade II listed building on Dog Kennel Lane.text/html2007-03-23T21:22:04+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge52.048116 -0.024325TL3540 : The Royse Stone
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The stone is a glacial erratic. It formed the base of a cross set up here at the crossroads between the ancient tracks, Ermine Street and the Icknield Way by Lady Roisia soon after 1066.text/html2007-03-20T18:35:34+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge51.795077 -0.233209TL2112 : Farm buildings in the snow. Lemsford
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/371964
There are normally horses in these fields and the footpath beneath the snow runs down to the old Great North Road at Stanborough.text/html2007-03-20T18:21:16+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge51.801399 -0.199459TL2412 : The "Shredded Wheat" factory, Welwyn Garden City.
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/371948
This famous landmark on the main railway line to the north will cease production over the next year and will then be demolished.text/html2007-03-20T18:11:58+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge51.784810 -0.220272TL2211 : Sailing Base, Stanborough Lakes, Welwyn Garden City
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/371941
This is the view from the cafe on a fine winter's day.text/html2007-03-20T18:03:01+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge51.797729 -0.230205TL2212 : The Long Arm and Short Arm Pub in Lemsford Village
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/371928
There are many theories regarding the origins of the name. The current pub sign shows a coach and four crossing a ford formed where the river Lea crossed the road in front of the pub. There is a signal board having two arms, one long and one short used to indicate the depth of water in the ford. It might be noted that the ford was bridged in 1775 and the beer house did not get its license until 100 years later although the original building dates from 1734. An alternative theory is that the long and short refer to the lengths of the two roads out of the village. That which goes off to the right was a longer route compared with the shorter steeper route that once ran the left of the pub. Another theory is that an early sign was painted by one John Frederick Herring, an accomplished "whip" and artist who frequently came through the village on his way from London to York. His sign showed a coachman extending his arm to the publican who was holding a glass of ale back with a short arm. To make the meaning clear the inscription "pay before you sup" was incorporated into the design. One more suggestion is that a coach and four horses as depicted in the sign has to be driven by the coachman with the reins of one pair of horses in the left hand on a "long arm" and the other pair on a "short arm." However as it says in the Lemsford Local History Group, Publication No. 3... "other suggestions have been put forward over the years and the reasons for the name remains a riddle to this day."text/html2007-03-20T17:48:46+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge51.784407 -0.253344TL2010 : Derelict Cottage
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/371903
This ruined building lies at a kink in the farm track which runs from Symondshyde Farm to Whitegate Cottages on the road from Welwyn Garden City to St Albans. The building is not very old probably originating in WW2. On the horizon is the chimney of what was the Roche Product factory.text/html2007-03-20T12:56:24+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge52.058069 0.003975TL3741 : Track down to Holland Hall and the A10
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/371507
Track descends between chalky fields with views of Royston on the left to Holland Hall and the A10 about 1.5km away.text/html2007-03-19T19:01:53+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/12700John Partridge52.055260 -0.005340TL3641 : Toward tunnel under the A505
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/370955
Very chalky soil.