Charlton, Hertfordshire

Charlton
Charlton
Shire county	Hertfordshire;
Region	East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HITCHIN
Postcode district	SG5
Dialling code	01462
UK Parliament	Hitchin and Harpenden;
	List of places UK England Hertfordshire 51°56′16″N 0°17′17″W / 51.937770°N 0.287961°W

Charlton is a hamlet in the county of Hertfordshire, in the East of England. It is a component hamlet of the market town of Hitchin, forming a part of the Hitchin Priory ward. Its rural character is protected as a Conservation Area. Situated east of the Chilterns AONB, it lies 30 miles north of London.

The

Temple Dinsley until the suppression of the latter order. The manor subsequently came to Edward Pulter, who sold it in 1582 to Ralph Radcliffe from which time it was part of the property of Hitchin Priory.^[1]

Charlton House is a

water-mill was therefore converted to a foundry during the occupancy of the Bessemer family and back to a mill again afterwards.^[5]

There are remains of a windmill less than half a mile from the Windmill pub from which it may have taken its name. There was, until the 1970s, also a water-wheel in the mill-race in the yard of Wellhead Farm.

According to an article by Peter Harkness in Vol 1, No 1 of "Old Hitchin Life" the Harkness family's now world-famous rose-nursery was, in the late 19th century, based in Charlton as well as Bedale, in Yorkshire, with Robert Harkness moving into Charlton House (Bessemer's birthplace) in 1895.

References

^ 'Hitchin: Introduction and manors', A History of the County of Hertford: volume 3 (1912), pp. 3-12. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43569
^ "Charlton House, Hitchin". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013.
^ Talbot Baines Reed (1887). A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography. E. Stock. pp. 359–360.
^ "A. Bessemer's Specimen of Printing Types, 1830". Journal of the Printing Historical Society. 5.
^ Sir Henry Bessemer Inventor & Engineer Archived 2013-01-19 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed 18 May 2012

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[1] 'Hitchin: Introduction and manors', A History of the County of Hertford: volume 3 (1912), pp. 3-12. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43569

[2] "Charlton House, Hitchin". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013.

[Reed1887-3] Talbot Baines Reed (1887). A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography. E. Stock. pp. 359–360.

[JPHS-4] "A. Bessemer's Specimen of Printing Types, 1830". Journal of the Printing Historical Society. 5.

[5] Sir Henry Bessemer Inventor & Engineer Archived 2013-01-19 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed 18 May 2012

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