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Local stories and social life in London
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Communities
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Community Blogs
Local stories and social life in London
44 posts
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Chiswell Green: Roses, Roman Roads, and a 15th-Century Pub
Chiswell Green sits on the old Roman road out of St Albans, and it holds two things that make a proper visit w...
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Bricket Wood: Ancient Woodland with a Secret Coven
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
How Wood: The Village That Grew Out of Its Own Fields
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Park Street: A Hamlet Built Around a Chapel of Ease
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Smallford: A Station Town That Became a Cycle Path
Smallford grew up around a railway station that no longer exists, and the old line it once served is now one of the nicest cycling and walking routes between St Albans and Hatfield...
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Colney Heath: A Hamlet That Grew Into Its Own Parish
Colney Heath spent centuries as a modest hamlet before growing large enough to become a parish in its own righ...
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
London Colney: The Village the Road to London Named
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Wheathampstead: An Iron Age Earthwork and a Nobel Prize Winner's Doorstep
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Redbourn: A Common That's Hosted Cricket Since 1666
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Luton: The Town That Hats Built
Luton's history runs from a Neolithic henge to a global hat-making empire to Britain's fifth-busiest airport,...
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Hemel Hempstead: A City in a Park
Hemel Hempstead's name goes back to a Saxon land grant in the year 705. Its town centre, remarkably, was desig...
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Hatfield: A Tudor Palace and the Birthplace of Jet Travel
Hatfield holds two unlikely histories side by side: the palace where a future queen grew up, and the aerodrome where Britain's jet age quite literally took off.
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026