Ayot St Lawrence

Coordinates: 51°50′04″N 0°16′02″W / 51.83434°N 0.26709°W / 51.83434; -0.26709
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Ayot St Lawrence
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWELWYN
Postcode districtAL6
Dialling code01438
PoliceHertfordshire
FireHertfordshire
AmbulanceEast of England
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Hertfordshire
51°50′04″N 0°16′02″W / 51.83434°N 0.26709°W / 51.83434; -0.26709

Ayot St Lawrence is a small English village and

civil parish in Hertfordshire, two miles (three kilometres) west of Welwyn.[1] There are several other Ayots in the area, including Ayot Green and Ayot St Peter
, where the census population of Ayot St Lawrence was included in 2011.

Heritage

National Trust property.[4]

Other residents of the village included Shaw's friend, neighbour and bibliographer Stephen Winsten (1893–1991) and his wife, the artist Clare Winsten (1894–1989).

During the 1950s, the silk-maker

Ayot House.[5] The historical novelist, biographer and children's writer Carola Oman, Lady Lenanton (1897–1978) lived at Bride Hall with her husband. She died there on 11 June 1978.[6]

Amenities

The village has a timber-framed public house, The Brocket Arms, which may date back to the early 16th century.[7] It also offers meals and accommodation.[8]

The old Norman church, in March 2010

The village has two churches:

Field Marshal Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan (1865–1946), a British Army officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff, is buried in the churchyard.[10]

References

  1. ISBN 9780340254875
    .
  2. ^ "Shaw's Corner". Archived from the original on 8 March 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
  3. ^ "Open house at Shaw's Corner". The Welwyn and Hatfield Times. 6 September 2009. Archived from the original on 24 August 2005. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
  4. ^ "Ayot Saint Lawrence". Hertfordshire Genealogy. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
  5. ^ John Martin, "Dyke, (Millicent) Zoë, Lady Dyke (1896–1975)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 accessed 12 July 2017
  6. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71516. Retrieved 10 April 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  7. ^ "The Brocket Arms, Ayot St Lawrence". Mysterious Britain. Archived from the original on 24 September 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
  8. ^ "The Brocket Arms". Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  9. ^ "Van Gogh walked here". St Albans & Harpenden Review. 4 February 2002. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
  10. ^ "Ayot (St Lawrence) Old Churchyard". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.CWGC casualty record.
  11. ^ "Parishes – Ayot St. Lawrence or Great Ayot". British History Online. Retrieved 6 February 2009.

Gallery

  • Shaw's Corner
    Shaw's Corner
  • Ruins of the old Church
    Ruins of the old Church

External links

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Ayot St Lawrence.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ayot St Lawrence.
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