Cow Roast

Cow Roast

Coordinates: 51°46′59″N 0°36′47″W / 51.783°N 0.613°W / 51.783; -0.613

Cow Roast
Cow Roast is located in Hertfordshire
Cow Roast

 Cow Roast shown within Hertfordshire
OS grid reference SP958103
District Dacorum
Shire county Hertfordshire
Region East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Dialling code 01442
Police Hertfordshire
Fire Hertfordshire
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
UK Parliament South West Hertfordshire
List of places: UK • England • Hertfordshire

Cow Roast is a small hamlet in the civil parish of Wigginton, Hertfordshire, England. It is located between Tring and Berkhamsted along the A4251 and nearby Grand Union Canal. Today it comprises a row of 20th century cottages together with one or two older properties including a public house.

Cow Roast is on the site of a Romano-British settlement close to the route of Akeman Street. Archeological finds suggest it was occupied as late as the 5th Century, although the byway through the Chiltern Hills would have been an important conduit throughout the Roman occupation. Subsequently it was known as a drovers' route with the area around the present day Cow Roast providing grazing.

During the construction of the nearby Grand Union Canal including a lock in 1813 a bronze helmet was discovered. The present day Cow Roast pub was built around 1800 on the site of the previous toll gate erected when the Sparrows Herne turnpike road was improved in the 1760s. The A41 Berkhamsted to Tring road passed by Cow Roast until the bypass was opened in 2004.[1]

  • The Grand Canal flows past Cow Roast and the A41 road

References

  1. ^ Cow Roast (A Guide to Old Hertfordshire)



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