| Croxley Green | |
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  Croxley Green Location withinHertfordshire | |
| Population | 12,562 (2011 Census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TQ075955 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | RICKMANSWORTH |
| Postcode district | WD3 |
| Dialling code | 01923 |
| Police | Hertfordshire |
| Fire | Hertfordshire |
| Ambulance | East of England |
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Croxley Green is both avillage and a suburb ofRickmansworth inHertfordshire, England. It is also acivil parish. Located on theA412 betweenWatford to the north-east and Rickmansworth to the south-west, it is approximately 20 miles (32 km) north-west of centralLondon.
Croxley Green has changed considerably in the years sinceJohn Dickinson builtpaper mills in the area. The area has grown into a semi-urban community, thanks toCroxley tube station on theMetropolitan line providing connections toLondon'sWest End atBaker Street and stations through tothe City atAldgate.
The population at the 2011 Census was 12,562.[1] Croxley Green is a part of theUK Parliamentconstituency,South West Hertfordshire.Gagan Mohindra is theMember of Parliament since the December2019 United Kingdom general election.[2]
Croxley Green has a largevillage green.
In 1830,John Dickinson built Croxley Mill adjacent to theGrand Junction Canal, since 1929 part of theGrand Union Canal.John Dickinson Stationery producedCroxley Script. Dickinson Square and Dickinson Avenue are named after thepaper mill owner and contain houses built by the company for their workers at the end of the 19th century. The mill closed in 1980.[3][4]
Croxley Green was historically part of the parish ofRickmansworth, which was included in theWatfordPoor Law Union from 1835.[5] Whensanitary districts were created in 1872, the parish of Rickmansworth, including Croxley Green, therefore became part of the Watford Rural Sanitary District, which in turn becameWatford Rural District in 1894.[6]
Croxley Green became part of Rickmansworth Urban District on its creation on 15 April 1898. On 1 April 1974, the urban district was abolished and the village became part of theThree Rivers District.[7] Thecivil parish of Croxley Green was created on 1 April 1986, covering the eastern part of the former Rickmansworth Urban District and an adjoining area transferred from the parish ofSarratt.[8]
York House School is an independentpreparatory day school for girls and boys aged from 3 to 13 years of age, located onSarratt Road near Croxley Green in Redhead, an eighteenth-century mansion. The current features date variously from 1712, 1743 and 1866.[27]
The school was founded inHampstead in 1910 by Rev. Cambridge Victor Hawkins. It relocated to Rickmansworth in the late 1940s, then moved again to its current location in 1966.[28][29] The school motto is"Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam", which isLatin for "Either I shall find a way or I shall make one". The school's alumni are referred to as Old Yorkists.[30]
REDHEATH is an estate about four miles north-west of Watford, on the borders of the parish of Rickmansworth, consisting partly of freehold and partly of copyhold land held of the manors of Croxley Hall and Cassio. It was occupied by the Baldwins in the early part of the sixteenth century and remained with owners of that name till 1709 when Thomas son of Henry Baldwin died without issue and was succeeded by his nephew Charles, son of Charles Finch and Mary sister of Thomas Baldwin. Charles Finch died without issue in 1718 and was succeeded by his brother John, from whom the estate descended in a direct line to Henry Baldwin Finch, the present owner. The Baldwin family appear to have built a house here, but all of that building has disappeared. In 1712 Charles Finch added a new front to the house, and that date appears on it. Further additions were made in 1866 by Henry Charles Finch. The front part is the only old portion remaining. The house is a three-storied building of brick, the roof being surmounted by a large square wooden clock turret, with an open octagonal cupola on the top. The clock in the tower bears the inscription GEORGE CLARKE, WHITE-CHAPPLE, 1743. There are moulded brick cornices over the first-floor windows, and the entrance door, which is in the centre of the front, has a fine semicircular projecting wooden hood, supported on richly-carved brackets. There is a very fine avenue of beech trees, stretching from the back of the house to Chandler's Cross.
