Breachwood Green
| Breachwood Green | |
| Hertfordshire | |
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL151220 |
| Location: | 51°53’6"N, 0°19’44"W |
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| Postcode: | SG4 |
| Local Government | |
Breachwood Green is a small village in Hertfordshire, and is the largest village in the parish of King's Walden, exceeding King's Walden itself. It lies 1 mile southwest of King's Walden, and has a population is 614.
Breachwood Green owes it existence to the farming community as the village was originally a collection of farms, wheelwrights, blacksmiths and substantial stables. The village also has a large Gothic chapel.
The village has one pub, The Red Lion. It has the only school in the parish, which was built in 1859.[1] During the 1970s there was a separate Post Office and Village Stores located in different parts of the village.
The Post Office originally stood in Chapel Road next to the Red Lion this moved a few hundred yards along the road to the north near St Mary's rise, it then moved again in the mid-1970s to the village store on retirement of the village postmistress. The Village Store closed during the 1990s and has become part of a neighbouring car showroom which was formerly the village petrol station. To the north of the village is a partially restored windmill (without sails).
The village was serenaded by a Hitchin comedian, Paul B. Edwards, in a song making fun of the quiet village.[2]
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