Essendon, Hertfordshire
Essendon | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | HATFIELD | |
Postcode district | AL9 | |
Dialling code | 01707 | |
Police | Hertfordshire | |
Fire | Hertfordshire | |
Ambulance | East of England | |
UK Parliament | ||
Website | Essendon Parish Council | |
Essendon is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Hertford.
The village is on the
Historic houses in the parish include Camfield Place which was the home of the novelist Barbara Cartland and visited by Beatrix Potter. Nearby is Holwell Court, a Grade II listed building, built in about 1900 for Sir Ernest George; it is now converted to private apartments.
Essendon Place was the seat of the Barons Dimsdale of Russia; Thomas Dimsdale was an expert on the treatment of smallpox by inoculation and in 1768 he was invited to Russia to inoculate Catherine the Great. For his services there he was made a baron of the Russian Empire.[3]
Bedwell Park is another manor house near to the village and is also the site of Essendon Country Club golf club.
In the early morning of 3 September 1916 during World War I, several houses were destroyed and the church damaged, when Schütte-Lanz SL 11, a German airship returning from a bombing raid on London, jettisoned its remaining bombs. Two sisters, Frances (26), a Post Office telephonist, and Eleanor (12) Bamford, daughters of the village blacksmith, were killed.[10][11] A plaque commemorating the event is on the wall of the church, where their funeral was also held.[10][11] The airship was shot down shortly afterwards, while still over Hertfordshire, by Lieutenant Leefe Robinson, killing the entire crew.[12] Robinson received the Victoria Cross for his action.[13]
Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is named after the village. Richard Green (1808-1878), whose father Isaac Green was either owner or tenant of Essendon watermill on the River Lea, arrived in Victoria in the 1850s and gave the name to the district.[14]
Notable people
- Simon Pegg, actor
- Thomas Pearce (1847–1898), first-class cricketer
References
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ "Dove Details". Dove.cccbr.org.uk. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ a b "Parishes: Essendon - British History Online". British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ "The Hartford Hundred (West) Group". Archived from the original on 27 August 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ Mitchinson, Terry. "New facilities at Essendon Country Club golf course". Welwyn Hatfield Times. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ "Bedwell End, AL9 6HL". Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2009.
- ^ "No. 37150". The London Gazette. 26 June 1945. p. 3361.
- ISBN 0-409-09183-9.
- ^ "No. 31439". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 July 1919. p. 8589.
- ^ a b "Obituary" (PDF). Telegraph and Telephone Journal. 3 (25): 14. October 1916.
- ^ a b "Zeppelin Raids". Herts at War. Archived from the original on 28 February 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- ^ Baker, Brian (2002). The Zeppelin Graves on Cannock Chase (Second (revised & extended) ed.). Cannock Chase: The Association of Friends of Cannock Chase. pp 1-2
- ^ "Captain William Leefe Robinson VC And Cuffley Airship SL11". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
- ^ Henry Bateson, "How Essendon got its Name", The Argus, 3 Feb 1934
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