- Chipperfield
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For other uses, see Chipperfield, Saskatchewan.
Coordinates: 51°42′14″N 0°29′26″W / 51.7039°N 0.4906°W
Chipperfield 
Chipperfield Common, Two Brewers public house and crossroads
Chipperfield
Chipperfield shown within HertfordshireOS grid reference TL043016 District Dacorum Shire county Hertfordshire Region East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town KINGS LANGLEY Postcode district WD4 Dialling code 01923 Police Hertfordshire Fire Hertfordshire Ambulance East of England EU Parliament East of England UK Parliament South West Hertfordshire List of places: UK • England • Hertfordshire Chipperfield is a village and civil parish in the Dacorum district of Hertfordshire, England, about 5 miles southwest of Hemel Hempstead and 5 miles north of Watford. The parish includes the hamlet of Tower Hill.
The village centre is a large green on the edge of nearby Chipperfield common. The former U.S. President Jimmy Carter can trace his family roots to John Carter of Jeffries Farm in Chipperfield.[1]
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Pubs,shops and cafe
The Two Brewers stands adjacent to the common and is a popular summer meeting place to drink out of doors. It was founded by Robert Waller as an ale house in 1799, originally the middle one of a row of three cottages. It eventually took over its neighbours to make a long frontage on the green. A modern hotel extension has been built to the rear. The pub acquired fame as the training quarters for many notable 19th century prize-fighters such as Jem Mace, Thomas Sayers and Bob Fitzsimmons who sparred in the Club Room and took their runs round the nearby Chipperfield Common.[2][3] In addition to the Two Brewers, there are Four other pubs, Blackwells Cafe & Bar, The Boot, The Royal Oak and The Windmill. Other facilities in the village include four shops (one of which is an award winning delicatessen, the Chipperfield Larder), and two garden centres.
Chipperfield has three churches - Church of England, Catholic and Baptist. It also has a primary school, St Pauls C of E, with strong ties to the church, which is located adjacent to the school. The school won the 7-a-side football dacorum primary school cup in 2008 and 2009. Also next to the school is a village club called Blackwell's, and tennis courts owned by CTC. Every year, a pantomime is held in the Village Hall, which is organised by the Chipperfield Theatre Group.
The History of Chipperfield
For centuries Chipperfield was an outlying settlement of Kings Langley consisting only of houses. However by the 1830s Chipperfield was large enough to warrant the building of both Anglican and Baptist churches and became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1848.
Since the end of World War II the village has dramatically expanded with housing estates during the 1940s and an extensive council estate to the east of Croft Lane in the 1960s. However, since the 1980s the rate of new building has considerably diminished.
For a number of years the Lords of the Manor were the Blackwell family, of Cross and Blackwell. They were great benefactors to the village. Two of Samuel and Elizabeth Blackwell's sons, Charles and William Gordon, were killed during World War One. In memory of them they gave the village the village club, which remained a club until quite recently. It’s now been renamed Blackwells and it's both a club and cafe next to the common.
Samuel and Elizabeth were equally devastated by the loss of two sons. Charles Blackwell was wounded at the second battle of Ypres and died in France in July, 1915. William Gordon Blackwell, the younger of the two brothers, was killed in action on October 5, 1916.”
The village's common also holds an interesting history. Up until the early 1900's, the local people reported strange 'happenings' in the woods on the village's common. These happenings included sightings of strange, humanoid like beings that would only ever appear at night.
Whilst these 'spirits' were seen quite regularly, the sightings abruptly stopped in late October, 1911; the reason to the sudden disappearance to these beings is unclear but the local people have been reported speculating that George V, ruling Monarch at the time, had an exorcism conducted in the woods on Chipperfield common due to an 'incident' one of his advisers had whilst riding through the woods one night.
The King vowed that not a single one of these "spirits" would haunt the woods with their presence for the next one hundred years.
Mostly, this is just folk tale and superstition, but these stories have been passed down through generations of the local people and are still believed, by most, to this day.
Nearby places
Nearby places are Sarratt, Belsize, Kings Langley and Bovingdon.
External links
- This link contains a vast amount of information about the village and photos of the notable landmarks and views.
References
- ^ Hertfordshire Genealogy: Book 0189: The Carters of Kings Langley Paper-Making
- ^ The Two Brewers pub Chipperfield History page Accessed October 2007
- ^ Lucas, John. "22". Hertfordshire Curiosities. Wimborne, Dorset: Dovecote Press. ISBN 0946159750. "A public house with punch."
Categories:- Villages in Hertfordshire
- Dacorum
- Civil parishes in Hertfordshire
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