Batchworth

Batchworth
Batchworth
Shire county	Hertfordshire;
Region	East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	RICKMANSWORTH
Postcode district	WD3
Dialling code	01923
Police	Hertfordshire
Fire	Hertfordshire
Ambulance	East of England
	List of places UK England Hertfordshire 51°38′N 0°28′W / 51.63°N 00.46°W

Batchworth was once a hamlet and is now a civil parish and part of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. The parish of Batchworth was created on 1 April 2017 consisting of two Three Rivers District Council wards: Rickmansworth Town, and Moor Park and Eastbury. The first election to Batchworth Parish Council was on 4 May 2017. There are eight councillors; four in each ward.^[1]

The

A4145 roads. This is the home of the Rickmansworth Waterways Trust who run a visitors centre, a working heritage boat, a small outdoor cafe and co-ordination of the annual Rickmansworth Canal Festival.^[3]

The future of the historic cotton mill is uncertain following its need of urgent repairs.[4]

Batchworth Sea Scouts have their headquarters alongside the canal.^[5] The Batchworth Dragons dragon boat club were born out of the scout group and competes at a national and international level.^[6]

Batchworth Lake, created by the extraction of gravel for the original Wembley Stadium, is used for water skiing^[7] and forms part of Rickmansworth Aquadrome.

Local Nature Reserve

, but according to Three Rivers Council this is an error and they have asked Natural England to remove it from the list. ^[8]^[9]^[10]

Batchworth Lock No 81
Under the A404 bridge, Batchworth
(circa 1895)
Batchworth Lock No 81
Grand Union Canal
From the A404 bridge, Batchworth (1977)
The Bury
Grand Union Canal in Batchworth
Batchworth Heath
Batchworth Lake

References

^ Three Rivers District Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2016 (PDF). Retrieved 11 September 2021.
^ http://www.rwt.org.uk/ around-batchworth/history
^ "Rickmansworth Waterways Trust homepage". Retrieved 25 April 2013.
^ "Future of historic building cast into doubt".
^ "Batchworth Sea Scouts". Retrieved 25 April 2013.
^ "Batchworth Dragons history". Archived from the original on 14 August 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
^ "Rickmansworth Water Ski Club". Retrieved 19 March 2020.
^ "Batchworth Heath". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 13 March 2013. Archived from the original on 30 November 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
^ "Map of Batchworth Heath". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Archived from the original on 1 May 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
^ "Batchworth Heath including Manor of Moor". Common Land in England. Retrieved 25 April 2015.

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[1] Three Rivers District Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2016 (PDF). Retrieved 11 September 2021.

[2] ttp://www.rwt.org.uk/ around-batchworth/history

[3] "Rickmansworth Waterways Trust homepage". Retrieved 25 April 2013.

[4] "Future of historic building cast into doubt".

[5] "Batchworth Sea Scouts". Retrieved 25 April 2013.

[6] "Batchworth Dragons history". Archived from the original on 14 August 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2013.

[7] "Rickmansworth Water Ski Club". Retrieved 19 March 2020.

[LNR-8] "Batchworth Heath". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 13 March 2013. Archived from the original on 30 November 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2015.

[9] "Map of Batchworth Heath". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Archived from the original on 1 May 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.

[10] "Batchworth Heath including Manor of Moor". Common Land in England. Retrieved 25 April 2015.

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v t e Civil parishes in Hertfordshire
Dacorum (partly parished)	Aldbury Berkhamsted Bovingdon Chipperfield Flamstead Flaunden Great Gaddesden Kings Langley Little Gaddesden Markyate Nash Mills Nettleden with Potten End Northchurch Tring Tring Rural Wigginton
East Hertfordshire (wholly parished)	Albury Anstey Ardeley Aspenden Aston Bayford Bengeo Rural Benington Bishop's Stortford Bramfield Braughing Brent Pelham Brickendon Liberty Buckland Buntingford Cottered Datchworth Eastwick Gilston Furneux Pelham Great Amwell Great Munden Hertford Hertford Heath Hertingfordbury High Wych Hormead Hunsdon Little Berkhamsted Little Hadham Little Munden Meesden Much Hadham Sacombe Sawbridgeworth Standon Stanstead Abbots Stanstead St Margarets Stapleford Stocking Pelham Tewin Thorley Thundridge Walkern Ware Wareside Watton-at-Stone Westmill Widford Wyddial
Hertsmere (partly parished)	Aldenham Elstree and Borehamwood Hertsmere Meriden Shenley South Mimms and Ridge
North Hertfordshire (partly parished)	Ashwell Barkway Barley Bygrave Caldecote Clothall Codicote Graveley Great Ashby Hexton Hinxworth Holwell Ickleford Kelshall Kimpton King's Walden Knebworth Langley Lilley Newnham Nuthampstead Offley Pirton Preston Radwell Reed Royston Rushden Sandon St Ippolyts St Paul's Walden Therfield Wallington Weston Wymondley
St Albans (partly parished)	Colney Heath Harpenden Town Harpenden Rural London Colney Redbourn Sandridge St Michael St Stephen Wheathampstead
Three Rivers (partly parished)	Abbots Langley Batchworth Chorleywood Croxley Green Sarratt Watford Rural
Welwyn Hatfield (partly parished)	Ayot St Lawrence Ayot St Peter Essendon Hatfield North Mymms Northaw and Cuffley Welwyn Woolmer Green
Wholly unparished boroughs	Broxbourne Stevenage Watford
See also	List of places in Hertfordshire

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