Frogmore, Hertfordshire

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Frogmore
Hertfordshire

Holy Trinity Church
Location
Grid reference: TL155034
Location: 51°43’5"N, 0°19’41"W
Data
Population: 800  (2001)
Post town: st albans
Postcode: AL2
Dialling code: 01727 (87)
Local Government
Council: St Albans
Parliamentary
constituency:
St Albans

Frogmore is a village in Hertfordshire 3 miles north of Radlett and 2 miles south of St Albans. It is located in St Stephens civil parish. It is contiguous with the village of Park Street just to the north, both strung along Watling Street in the valley of the River Colne, which river separates them.

Parish church

The parish church in Frogmore is Holy Trinity, a 19th-century church designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and William Moffatt.[1]

Moore Mill featuring two water wheels,[2] (not to be confused with Henry Fourdrinier's Frogmore Mill in Apsley near Hemel Hempstead).

History

The village is mentioned in Daniel Paterson's travel guide of 1796, on the route from London to St. Albans.[3]

Granada Publishing, whose imprints included Grafton and Panther Books, were based at Frogmore,[4] until it was sold in 1983.

The Park Street and Frogmore Society "was formed to promote interest in local history and nature conservation and covers the three villages of Park Street, Frogmore and Colney Street".[5]

Sport

References

  1. National Heritage List 1347115: Holy Trinity Church
  2. Nikolaus Pevsner, Bridget Cherry, Hertfordshire. The Buildings of England, Pevsner Architectural Guides, First published by Penguin Books, 1953
  3. Daniel Paterson, A new and accurate description of all the direct and principle cross roads in England and Wales, Printed for T.N. Longman, 1796
  4. The Bookseller, magazine, publ. J. Whitaker
  5. "Park Street and Frogmore Society", Hertfordshire County Council, retrieved 25 June 2012