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The Pond
Thatched Cottages
Village
South
Schools
and Church
The Old Cage
[No publisher info - posted 1924]
 SHENLEY
(2 miles E. from Radlett Station, M.R.) is of interest to many for its fine old
" lock-up," or cage, in the centre of the village [see
Early Crime and Punishment]. We are on high ground
here, and the tower of St. Alban's Abbey is well seen above the trees to the
N.W. The village is scattered along several converging roads and the surrounding
country is undulating and beautifully wooded. Turn down the lane opposite the
Black Lion to reach the old church of St. Botolph, 1 mile N.N.W. from the cage.
Note the venerable yews, and the quaint old grave-boards in the graveyard; also
the altar-tomb to Nicholas Hawksmoor, a pupil of Wren, and the architect of St.
Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street (d. at Shenley,1736). The church was partly
rebuilt in the middle of the eighteenth century, when the tower was demolished
and a structure of timber, with quadrangular tiled roof, eventually erected in
its stead. This has disappeared, and the " old parish church" is now an oblong
building of flints, chalk-faced, with tiled roof. Porters, in the park, a
little W., was the residence of Admiral Lord Howe. Salisbury Hall,
a gabled manor house with massive chimneys, surrounded by a moat, is Jacobean,
and stands on the spot occupied successively by the older houses of the
Montacutes, and of Sir John Cutts, Treasurer and Privy Councillor of Henry VIII,
Egene Aram visited the area. [Hertfordshire,
1903]
Harry Hanwell with assistant George Rolph outside the
butcher's shop
from
The Book of Shenley
Book:
The Book of Shenley - Illustrated history
Book: Two
Nineteen-Century Diaries
(Rev Thomas Newcombe, Rector of Shenley, 1830-1849)
Census: 1861: Parts of area included in Middlesex. [The same
appears to be the case in 1891]
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