Towns & Villages in Herts

Chorleywood

A parish created in 1845 from part of the parish Rickmansworth

Chorley (or Charley Wood) is an ecclesiastical district, 3 miles north-west [of Rickmansworth], with a population in 1851 of 938. The church is named Christ church. The living is a perpetual curacy, annual value £40, in the gift of Mr. Hayward, and held by the Rev. Arthur Scrivener, M.A. Here is a Baptist chapel. Soles Mill is on the Chess. Currants Bottom, Long Hill, and Catlip (or Gatlets) lie to the south.

Post Office Directory for Hertfordshire, 1866

Book: Rickmansworth, Chorleywood & Croxley Green

Book: Rickmansworth & Chorleywood in Old Postcards

Book: The Book of Chorleywood and Chenies

Book: Chenies & Chorleywood in Camera

Chorley Wood Church - The Photochrome Co Ltd, London - circa 1905

Parish Church, Chorleywood - undated RA (Radermacher Aldous) postcard
Back suggests not earlier than the late 1930s. Derek, who went to the school suggests a 1950s date.

Chorleywood Church & Common, by Maud Huntsman of Chorleywood probably painted before 1910 Another card by her, of Clements Farm, Chorleywood Common on Hertfordshire Postcard Artists.

Shire Lane Bluebells in Philipshill Wood

Chorleywood House
Published by Coles, Watford, circa 1904

Chorley Wood: West Photo by Coles. Watford Circa 1905

Advertisement of the sale of timber (beech, oak and larch) in Solomon's Wood, on the Cedars Estate, Chorley Wood Buckinghamshire Advertiser, 8th March 1890

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Chorleywood Church	A Pretty view of Chorley Woods

See also Rickmansworth and Vital Records

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Page updated November 2007