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How the map was made

This site tells the story of the whole estate, from Oxhey Place and its farms to the estate the London County Council built from 1946, so the map carries several layers from different times. This section explains where each one comes from.

The old maps

The historic layers are Ordnance Survey maps from the National Library of Scotland. They run from the 25-inch maps revised in 1896, before the golf course, through the 1912 to 1913 and 1935 revisions and the 1948 air photo, to the maps of the 1960s once the estate was built.6,59,60,90,112,165 Each sheet was fitted to today's map by matching points that appear on both.

The 1943 boundary

The red line of the 1943 Housing Order comes from the deposited map reproduced in Poor But Proud, read from our photo of the page.21 We matched 20 features found on both that map and the 1935 Ordnance Survey, such as woods, buildings, labels and the corner where the railway meets the county boundary, and stretched the photo onto the ground with a thin-plate spline.90 The line is typically within about 30 to 40 m of where it should be. Traced to the outside of the pen line, it encloses about 970 acres, against the 921 acres of the order, which is a fair check given the thickness of the line.22

The golf course plan

No Ordnance Survey map we checked shows Oxhey's holes, so every hole-by-hole layout comes from hand-drawn plans by John Swain and Don Dunham, and this map uses Swain's plan of the 1920 course, from the board.1,14,59 Swain drew his plan of the 1920 course in 2003 after consulting golf historian Don Dunham and local historian Neil Hamilton, so it is a reconstruction, not a 1920 original.1,8

We read the plan twice, independently, from a photo of the board. We then matched 25 features found on both the plan and the surveyed OS 25-inch maps of 1912 to 1913, such as the clubhouse and the old chalk pit, and stretched the plan onto the ground with a thin-plate spline, which pulls each matched feature close to its surveyed spot.59,743 Positions are typically within 40 to 50 m, closer near the clubhouse and Big Wood. In straight lines the plotted holes total 6,203 yards against the card's 6,539.1 Some shortfall is expected, partly because the card measured along the playing line.

Buildings and farms

Estate buildings are placed from OpenStreetMap, or for lost buildings from Ordnance Survey maps of 1912 to 1913, the 1930s and the 1960s.5,59,90,165 The old farms and lodges are placed from the Ordnance Survey maps of the 1870s and 1890s and described from the 1872 sale particulars.20,58,60,295,311 Where a building has gone, its pin marks the site rather than anything standing today.

Names in the sources

Ordinary residents are not named anywhere on this site, and a memory is credited as "a resident remembers". The sources behind those memories are a different matter. Where a source is a page on a community archive such as Our Oxhey, the people who wrote it often put their own names to it, and the web address of the page can carry a name too. We have kept those links, because a source nobody can check is no source at all, and the wording here is ours rather than theirs. If you wrote one of those pages and would rather we linked to it differently, please tell us and we will change it.

Books we relied on

Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy and published by the Three Rivers Museum Trust in 2012, is the starting point for anyone curious about the estate. We read much of it from our own photos and scans, including the 1866 and 1872 sale particulars, the 1943 deposited map, the story of the purchase, the chapters on the estate's early and later years, the golf course and Oxhey Place, the pages on the churches, and several appendices.7,20,21,97,100,108,119,126,137,158,176,438 The book is quoted only briefly here and paraphrased otherwise. It is out of print, and its editor asks us to say that copies may be consulted at local libraries, Hertfordshire Archives and the British Library.

H. J. Foley's Rural Rambles: The Herts Border (1889) describes walks through Oxhey Woods and past Oxhey Place and the chapel. Poor But Proud reprints extracts, and the whole book can be read free on Google Books.56,57

Map layers and credits

  • Today's map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence.5
  • Historic maps: Ordnance Survey maps and the 1948 OS air photo, from the 1890s to the 1960s, before, during and after the estate was built, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (CC-BY).6
  • Ancient woodland: outlines from Natural England's Ancient Woodland Inventory. © Natural England copyright 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. OS AC0000851168. Open Government Licence v3.0.16
  • LIDAR: Environment Agency 1 m Composite DTM, shown as hillshade, under the Open Government Licence. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.742
  • 1920 layout: redrawn from John Swain's plan "Oxhey Golf Course in 1920", © John Swain.1,8,14

Photo and plan credits

The board, made for Three Rivers District Council and the Countryside Management Service, credits the 1920 plan to John Swain and the photo of Ted Ray on the 18th green to Neil Hamilton.14 The plan is reproduced here from our photo of that public board, with his permission.

Aerial photos worth a look

Britain from Above permits personal and educational use only.759

  • EPW020992, April 1928: the clubhouse and 18th green, with John Swain's notes.
  • EPW020993, April 1928: the clubhouse, with pins for the first hole and the short 6th.
  • EPW001562, June 1920: Sandy Lane and the west end of the course.
  • EAW022129 and EAW022134, 1949: the estate being built.
  • EAW022130, April 1949: the estate being built, with a viewer's tentative pin for the old third hole.

Where to find more

  • Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, reference Acc 3970, credited on Terry Askew's transcriptions of the club minutes.26
  • Our Oxhey, for John Swain's articles and readers' memories.12
  • The Watford Observer, which reported the 1944 inquiry and the 1989 campaign to save the fields.4,12 Try the British Newspaper Archive.
  • Thames Valley Orienteering Club, whose 1998 map reportedly shows the old tees, bunkers and greens.12
  • Historic England's Aerial Photo Explorer, which lists RAF photos of the area, including ones taken in 1942 and 1945.760
  • Hertfordshire Archives also holds the Bucknall and Estcourt papers for the Oxhey estate, 1670 to 1888, under reference DE/Go. They include inventories of Oxhey Place (DE/Go/F13).761 The archive's copy of the 1872 sale particulars is D/EX 242/Z1.51 The South Oxhey parish records (DP117J) and the Methodist church records (NM7R) are there too.762,763
  • The University of Reading holds more Bucknall and Estcourt deeds, which passed to W. H. Smith with the estate, in the Smith family papers (SEP HER 1 to 34).49
  • The London Archives hold the London County Council's files on the estate: general papers for 1943 to 1948 (LCC/CL/HSG/2/39), 1948 to 1952 (LCC/CL/HSG/2/40) and 1957 to 1962 (LCC/CL/HSG/2/66), the programme for the opening by Lady Nathan on 26 November 1947 (LCC/CL/CER/3/8/154, where the catalogue spells her name Natham), and a green belt file covering Whippendell Woods, Watford and the Oxhey estate, 1935 to 1965 (LCC/CL/PK/1/116).464,465,466,467,764 An estate plan of Oxhey Drive, catalogued as 1968 or thereabouts (LCC/AR/HS/3/37), is listed too.765

Picture credits

  1. Oxhey Golf Club, South Oxhey (1912–1952), Golf's Missing Links. Text plus images: the c.1920, post-1936 and 1949 scorecards and John Swain's course plans (images courtesy of John Swain), Bernard Darwin's c.1937 hole notes from the 1939 club brochure (typed by Don Dunham), a 1921 Nottingham Evening Post match report, and cuttings from The Sphere (1913, 1922), Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (1922, 1931), Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette (1947) and Londonderry Sentinel (1952). Card yardages checked against the scorecard image.
  2. EPW020993: Oxhey Park Golf Course and Club House, Oxhey Hall, 1928, Britain from Above, Historic England. User comments and map pins by John Swain on the 1936 renumbering, the 18th green and the first and sixth holes.
  3. Oxhey Golf Club, Part 4 (minutes 1939 to closure in 1946, transcribed by Terry Askew), Our Oxhey. The transcription names the owner killed in 1942 as R.A.W. Blackwell. Elsewhere it gives T.A.W., which matches other records.
  4. Oxhey Place: fight to retain Oxhey Place as beauty spot (Watford Observer, 21 April 1944, with later notes), Our Oxhey.
  5. OpenStreetMap, OpenStreetMap contributors. Today's streets and landmarks used to describe where each hole lies now.
  6. Ordnance Survey 25-inch and six-inch maps of Hertfordshire (1896–1960s), National Library of Scotland. The 1912 to 1913 revision (sheets XLIV.9 and XLIV.10) was used to fix the old plan to the ground.
  7. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 68 to 77: Chapter Five, A Short History of Oxhey Golf Course 1912-1952 and Oxhey Playing Fields 1953-2011, by John Swain.
  8. EPW020992: Oxhey Park Golf Course and Club House, Oxhey Hall, 1928, Britain from Above, Historic England. User comments by John Swain (2012 to 2013), including how he drew the 1920 plan in 2003 and the land lost to the estate.
  9. Card of Eric Holt’s round on the public course at Oxhey, October 1949, printed in the Watford Observer, Watford Observer. Identified by John Swain on 27 October 2026. The card gives the shortened public course a standard scratch score of 73 and hole lengths that can be matched against the c.1920 and post-1936 cards. Swain used it to support the reconstruction of the post-war layout. This site has not seen the original cutting and relies on Swain’s account of it.
  10. 'Oxhey: a course for big hitters. Holes distinctive in character', Sporting Life, 30 March 1927, Sporting Life. A 'Sporting Life' Special, two columns on the club at its height. Sent to this site by John Swain on 11 October 2026 from a copy he had been given years before, he thinks by Neil Hamilton. Out of copyright.
  11. Oxhey Golf Club, Part 3 (AGM minutes 1919–1938, transcribed by Terry Askew), Our Oxhey.
  12. South Oxhey Playing Fields: the former 1912–1952 Oxhey Golf Course (John Swain, with his later replies in the comments), Our Oxhey.
  13. South Oxhey Playing Fields Greenspace Action Plan 2024–2029 (v2.0), Three Rivers District Council and Hertfordshire Countryside Management Service.
  14. Welcome to South Oxhey Playing Fields (interpretation board at the Ashburnham Drive entrance), Three Rivers District Council and Hertfordshire Countryside Management Service. The board's text is not published online. The link is the council's page for the site. Read here from photographs of the board at the Ashburnham Drive entrance.
  15. South Oxhey Playing Fields recognised as village green (15 April 2025), Three Rivers District Council.
  16. Ancient Woodland - Revised (England), ArcGIS feature service, Natural England. Queried 16 September 2026. Open Government Licence v3.
  17. Pavillion, South Oxhey, CAMRA WhatPub.
  18. Watford: Manors, in A History of the County of Hertford, volume 2 (1908), Victoria County History, via British History Online.
  19. Oxhey Chapel, Watford Rural (list entry 1174300, Grade II*), Historic England list text, via British Listed Buildings.
  20. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), Chapter Ten, Appendix One, pp. 140 to 149: the sale particulars of the Oxhey Estate, 11 July 1866 and 3 July 1872. Reproductions of the original auction papers, read from photographs of the book.
  21. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), p. 3: "The Oxhey Estate 1943", the deposited map of the County of London (Watford, Hertfordshire) Housing Order, 1943. A colour reproduction of the map, with a handwritten note that it is the map referred to in the 1944 compulsory purchase order.
  22. L.C.C. Estate, Oxhey (HC Deb 17 November 1949, vol 469, c2181), Hansard, via UK Parliament (historic Hansard). Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health: the estate covers 921.275 acres, cost £1,406,000 to acquire, and had a total rateable value of £1,187 because most of the land was agricultural.
  23. South Oxhey, Three Rivers Museum Trust.
  24. EAW022130: The South Oxhey Housing Estate under construction around Hayling Road, 14 April 1949 (with John Swain's comments), Britain from Above, Historic England. John Swain's comments of 19 December 2013 cover the start of building in October 1946, the first tenants in November 1947, bomb-site hardcore and the 17,000 population.
  25. Carpenders Park and South Oxhey: a Tale of Two Estates, Part 2, Municipal Dreams. Reports a 1960 study giving 17,000 residents by 1954.
  26. Oxhey Golf Club, Part 1 (AGM minutes 1912–1915, transcribed by Terry Askew from Hertfordshire Archives Acc 3970), Our Oxhey.
  27. 1912 Open Championship, Wikipedia.
  28. EAW022129: The South Oxhey Housing Estate under construction, 14 April 1949 (with John Swain's comments), Britain from Above, Historic England. Swain says the main roads (Prestwick Road, Hayling Road, Oxhey Drive and Gosforth Lane) were laid out by April 1949 and building was mostly complete by 1952. He dates the southern zone to 1952, Greenfields School to 8 September 1952, Hampden School to 11 September 1950, Clarendon School to September 1951 and Woodhall School to 1954, and says the land east of Prestwick Road was golf course until 1946.
  29. S 916: King Æthelred to St Albans Abbey, AD 1007, The Electronic Sawyer.
  30. The Place-Names of Hertfordshire (W. W. Skeat, 1904), Internet Archive.
  31. Carpenders Park and South Oxhey: a Tale of Two Estates, Part 1 (2022), Municipal Dreams.
  32. Planning Committee, 19 March 2020, item 6: 19/2133/FUL, Land at South Oxhey Central (345 homes), Three Rivers District Council. Total 659 homes, 182 affordable (27.5%) including 21 extra shared ownership homes in Phase 1.
  33. South Oxhey Central: How £170m plans will bring a neglected Watford suburb back to life (27 October 2020, by a Local Democracy Reporter), HertsLive (Hertfordshire Mercury).
  34. Find an energy certificate: postcode WD19 7FL and neighbouring WD19 7F postcodes, GOV.UK energy performance certificate register.
  35. Oxhey, from J. E. Cussans, History of Hertfordshire (c.1881, transcribed), Our Oxhey.
  36. Oxangeheage to modern Oxhey (Nigel Lee, Watford Observer, 7 May 1971, with his later corrections), Our Oxhey.
  37. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire (1910): Watford, Urban and Rural, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, via British History Online. Entry c(2), Oxhey Chapel.
  38. Oxhey Woods Greenspace Action Plan 2022-2027, Three Rivers District Council and Hertfordshire Countryside Management Service. Compartment descriptions, history, 1844 tithe map extract, LNR designation.
  39. A plan of Hedgestone Farm (Bucknall and Estcourt Oxhey estate records, Hertfordshire Archives), Our Oxhey.
  40. Oxhey Lodge, 1928 (with John Swain's comment), Our Oxhey.
  41. The London Gazette, issue 17920 (May 1823), p. 730: royal licence for Thomas Grimston Estcourt to take the surname Bucknall, The Gazette.
  42. ESTCOURT (afterwards BUCKNALL and BUCKNALL ESTCOURT), Thomas Grimston (1775-1853), in The House of Commons 1820-1832, History of Parliament Online.
  43. Oxhey chapel (Kelly's Directory of Watford, 1925, transcribed), Our Oxhey.
  44. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, Thomas Henry Sutton (1801-1876), in The House of Commons 1820-1832, History of Parliament Online.
  45. Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900), 'Estcourt, Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron', Wikisource.
  46. Coal marker post - railway embankment nr Little Oxhey Lane, Our Oxhey.
  47. London Coal Duty Marker on County Boundary on West Railway Embankment about 270 metres South of Road, Watford Rural (list entry 1174333, Grade II), British Listed Buildings (Historic England list text).
  48. South Hertfordshire's coal posts, North Mymms History Project.
  49. Smith Family Estate Papers (SEP): handlist with histories, including Hertfordshire (Oxhey and Wiggenhall) Estate Papers SEP HER 1-34, University of Reading, Museums and Special Collections Service. General introduction pp. 1-2 and Hertfordshire section pp. 107-113 of the PDF.
  50. Ordnance Survey 25-inch, Hertfordshire XLIV.9, surveyed 1871, published 1872, National Library of Scotland.
  51. Sale particulars of Oxhey estate, 1872 (HALS D/EX 242/Z1), The National Archives Discovery (held by Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).
  52. Oxhey Grange, Watford Rural (list entry 1101593, Grade II), British Listed Buildings (Historic England text).
  53. Canon Gee, 'Famous Trees in Hertfordshire' (read 18 October 1877), Transactions of the Watford Natural History Society, vol. 2, p. 10, Internet Archive.
  54. The London Gazette, issue 24794 (23 December 1879), p. 7531: scheme for the District of Saint Matthew, Oxhey, The Gazette.
  55. The Story of New Bushey, Our Oxhey.
  56. Rural Rambles: The Herts Border, by H. J. Foley (London: Truslove & Shirley, 1889), full view, Google Books. Chapter 'Around Bushey: A Woodland Ramble', pp. 22 to 25.
  57. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), Chapter Ten, Appendix Two, from p. 150: an extract from the chapter 'Around Bushey' in H. J. Foley, Rural Rambles: The Herts Border (1889), pp. 22 to 24.
  58. Ordnance Survey 25-inch, Hertfordshire XLIV.10, revised 1896, published 1898, National Library of Scotland.
  59. Ordnance Survey 25-inch, Hertfordshire XLIV.10, revised 1912 to 1913, published 1914, National Library of Scotland. Prints Golf Club beside Oxhey Warren, Golf Course across the fields, and the new mansion at Oxhey Place.
  60. Ordnance Survey 25-inch, Hertfordshire XLIV.9, revised 1896, published 1898, National Library of Scotland.
  61. John Edward Knight Cutts Restoration 1897/98 (architect's photographs), Our Oxhey.
  62. The London/Hertfordshire boundary: Pinner Wood (TQ 10 92), 31 October 2009, Edith's Streets (London local history blog). Compiled gazetteer, unreferenced. Source for Gate House Farm on Sandy Lane.
  63. The London Gazette, issue 28053 (23 August 1907), p. 5805: Thomas Francis Blackwell, deceased, The Gazette.
  64. The Oerlikon Electric Trains: 18 stations from Watford to Euston, Our Oxhey.
  65. Oxhey Artisan Golf Club, History Sheet No. 6 (November 1994, research by Neil Hamilton), Oxhey Village Environment Group, via Our Oxhey. Scanned PDF. Credits Neil Hamilton's research.
  66. 'Memorial Hall and Club, Oxhey, Watford', The Builder, vol. 100 (1911), p. 87, Google Books.
  67. 'Cottages, Oxhey, Watford', The Building News, vol. 100 (1911), p. 99 (snippet view), Google Books.
  68. Second Lieutenant Thomas Anthony Walter Blackwell (1912–1942), memorial 167254080, Find a Grave.
  69. Oxhey Golf Club, Wikipedia.
  70. The Journey: 1912 Muirfield, The Open.
  71. Ted Ray (golfer), Wikipedia. Cites the Grouville birth register, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and The Times obituary of 30 August 1943.
  72. The London Gazette, issue 28672 (17 December 1912), p. 9619: Walter Reginald Blackwell of Oxhey Place, deceased, The Gazette.
  73. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Blackwell Minor's Trustee (King's Bench Division and Court of Appeal, 1924-1925), vLex United Kingdom. Tax Cases report quoting Walter Reginald Blackwell's will of 13 December 1909 on Oxhey Place.
  74. Carpenders Park railway station, Wikipedia.
  75. Carpenders Park Station: Services from WWI to WW2, by David Reidy, Our Oxhey.
  76. Oxhey Golf Club, Part 2 (AGM minutes 1916–1918, transcribed by Terry Askew), Our Oxhey.
  77. Cultivation of Lands Orders World War One (Hertfordshire Archives AEC 21 and 24), Herts Memories.
  78. U.S. Open Records (archived December 2024), USGA, via the Internet Archive.
  79. 1920 U.S. Open (golf), Wikipedia.
  80. McVitie & Price Tournament, Wikipedia.
  81. British PGA Matchplay Championship, Wikipedia. Results table with Glasgow Herald references for the 1914 (cancelled), 1921, 1930 and 1936 events at Oxhey.
  82. Deed relating to Raglan Gardens, 1910–1933 (Hertfordshire Archives, summarised on Our Oxhey), Our Oxhey.
  83. 1927 Ryder Cup, Wikipedia.
  84. The Amazing Mr. Jones, Kingdom Magazine. Places Bobby Jones's four-ball at Oxhey with Ray, Braid and Vardon just after the 1930 Open at Hoylake, before he sailed home. Confirms that the 'R T Jones' in the press report on Golf's Missing Links is Bobby Jones, not Robert Trent Jones as that page's gloss says.
  85. Vagliano Trophy, Wikipedia.
  86. Oxhey Grange Estate Sale - 1932, Our Oxhey.
  87. Watford Heath Conservation Area Character Appraisal (adopted July 2013), Watford Borough Council.
  88. Charles Anthony Walter Blackwell 1934–2014 (David Reidy), Our Oxhey.
  89. Footbridge or tunnel? (David Reidy), Our Oxhey.
  90. Ordnance Survey 25-inch, Hertfordshire XLIV.10, revised 1935, published 1936, National Library of Scotland.
  91. Ted Ray: Golfer and Man (C. K. Cotton, USGA Journal and Turf Management, June 1957, pp. 16–17), Michigan State University Turfgrass Information Center. Cotton was Oxhey's club secretary for the last ten years of Ray's life.
  92. Ted Ray, Ganton Golf Club. Gives 1941 for Ray's retirement from Oxhey. The club minutes record his retirement presentation in April 1940.
  93. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 1 to 2: Chapter One, The Beginning, by David Reidy.
  94. The County of London Plan, 1943: 'If only we will', Municipal Dreams.
  95. Ted Ray (1877–1943), memorial 40766354, Find a Grave.
  96. Town and Country Planning Bill, HC Deb 12 July 1944 vol 401 cc1747-853, Hansard (UK Parliament). Silkin c1759 (LCC decided on Oxhey in October 1943, inquiry said to be in February, no decision by July). Strauss c1759. Pickthorn c1777. Morrison c1849.
  97. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 4 to 6: the compulsory purchase, the protests and the text of the 1944 confirmation order.
  98. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 7 to 8: the schedule of land in the order and the objections at the inquiry.
  99. Why LCC Want Oxhey Estate (West Herts Post, 20 April 1944, transcribed), Our Oxhey.
  100. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), p. 81: St Alphege's Mission Church, Carpenders Park.
  101. History of Oxhey (All Saints: a separate parish), St Matthew's Church, Oxhey.
  102. My Milk Round: Braziers Dairies (Terry Trainor), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  103. Lucy Gastor Childrens Home, Oxhey Hall - vacancies during World War 2, Our Oxhey.
  104. Town and Country Planning Bill, HL Deb 7 November 1944 vol 133 cc826-51, Hansard (UK Parliament). Lord Balfour of Burleigh at c828 on the press report of the confirmed provisional order.
  105. Town and Country Planning Bill (committee), HL Deb 7 November 1944 vol 133 cc851-904, Hansard (UK Parliament). Lord Latham at cc866-867 uses Oxhey as his example.
  106. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 12 to 13: the inspector's finding, the compensation and the LCC resolution of 30 July 1946.
  107. Sites (Acquisition), HC Deb 10 May 1945 vol 410, written answers (Stokes and Willink), Hansard (UK Parliament).
  108. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 133 to 139: Chapter Ten, Oxhey Place, by David Reidy.
  109. Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, second reading (HL Deb 9 April 1946, vol 140, cc597-629), Hansard, via UK Parliament (historic Hansard). Lord Balfour of Burleigh regrets the Oxhey order as an encroachment on the Green Belt. Lord Latham, Leader of the London County Council, gives London's need as at least 120,000 new dwellings (70,000 to replace war losses), applications at about 2,000 a week, Oxhey as one of seven "quasi-satellite" sites approved in the Greater London Plan, and the need to buy two acres for every acre of housing.
  110. Charles Latham, 1st Baron Latham, Wikipedia. Leader of the London County Council, 1940 to 1947.
  111. EAW022134: The South Oxhey Housing Estate under construction around Hayling Road, from the east, 14 April 1949 (with John Swain's comments), Britain from Above, Historic England. Swain says building started at the railway end and moved west along Hayling Road, and the west-end houses were finished by summer 1951. He calls Oxhey Woods a natural barrier to the south and west, and says the main shopping centre site west of Prestwick Road was due for completion by 1955.
  112. Ordnance Survey air photo mosaic, sheet 51/19 S.W., September 1948, National Library of Scotland.
  113. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 21 to 23: shops, the Community Association, the first bus, library and the 1951 county report.
  114. Brief notes about Oxhey Chapel (Redundant Churches Fund), Our Oxhey. Says the first tenants used the chapel from 1948 and All Saints was consecrated in 1953.
  115. Moving In Day (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey.
  116. Just being built and the coronation (with reader comments), Our Oxhey.
  117. 'Tin Houses' 1968 and 2013, Little Oxhey Lane (with residents' comments), Our Oxhey. A resident's comment of 2017 describes the steel-framed houses being built roof first.
  118. Page on one of the estate's first doctors, with residents' comments on the early surgeries, Our Oxhey. A comment of 15 May 2013 places the first surgery in a stable-like building beside Oxhey Place.
  119. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 362 to 367: Appendix Nine, South Oxhey timelines 1943 to 2012.
  120. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 368 to 381: Appendix Ten, The Estate News, No. 2, August to September 1949.
  121. Moving onto the LCC Estate, 31st March 1949 (letter from the LCC Director of Housing and Valuer), Our Oxhey.
  122. South Oxhey: aerial views of 1953, Our Oxhey. Oxhey Place is visible beside Nissen huts. Residents' comments describe the greens in front of their houses.
  123. Warren Dell (school history), Our Oxhey. Official opening 2 July 1949, 600 on the roll, half-day attendance at first, first head teaching from May 1949.
  124. Hampden School: early days, the 50s, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). Memories of a family who moved from Camden Town in 1949.
  125. The Old Library, Little Oxhey Lane, Our Oxhey. Library opened in June 1951 in a former farmhouse and moved to Bridlington Road in May 1962. Woodhall School built opposite in 1954.
  126. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 24 to 39: Chapter Two, The Early Years 1947 to 1970, and the start of Chapter Three.
  127. Oxhey Wood Primary School: a brief history, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  128. Clarendon School Information (from a school prospectus before 1957), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). Reader comments include John Swain on pupil numbers, later buildings and the 1967 merger.
  129. First Memories (with reader comments), Our Oxhey.
  130. Moving in: happy memories, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A resident who moved in June 1951.
  131. Memories of Oxhey (Hampden School page, with reader comments), Our Oxhey.
  132. Shopping in South Oxhey: some memories of old fashioned shopping experiences, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  133. Hallowes Crescent: parade of shops (with John Swain's comment of 11 February 2011), Our Oxhey. Swain visited the parade in late February 1953, a few weeks after it opened.
  134. Postal Services, South Oxhey (written answer, HC Deb 29 May 1952, vol 501, c196W), Hansard, via UK Parliament (historic Hansard). One sub-post office and seven letter boxes provided, two more letter boxes and a branch post office planned.
  135. Little Furze Primary School in 1953, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  136. Greenfields School, Watford Rural (list entry 1101571, Grade II, listed 30 March 1993), British Listed Buildings (text from the Historic England list).
  137. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), the section on South Oxhey Baptist Church, with the 1952 stone-laying order of service, the 1953 opening card and a 1952 letter from the Unit Construction Company.
  138. A Terrible Train Crash, October 8th 1952 (Terry Trainor), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  139. Carpenders Park Station (Historic England research record 501187), Historic England, via Heritage Gateway. Quotes the 2014 blue plaque: the present station, 211 metres south of the original, came into use on 17 November 1952 and was formally opened on 27 September 1954. Historic England has not yet moved this record to the new Heritage Gateway, so there is no link to it for now.
  140. EAW022132: The South Oxhey Housing Estate under construction around Hayling Road, 14 April 1949 (with Neil Hamilton's pins), Britain from Above, Historic England. Hamilton says the police were first housed in old cottages demolished around 1952, and the present police station opened in 1953.
  141. A walk through Paddock Spring (Neil Hamilton, 2013), Our Oxhey.
  142. A New Estate is Born (Watford Observer nostalgia column, 2 February 1996), Our Oxhey. Summarises Watford Observer reports of 1950 to 1958, including a 1951 report on the estate, shops in Prestwick Road (1952) and a £90,000 station (1951).
  143. Barclays Bank: another landmark closes, Our Oxhey.
  144. South Oxhey Baptist Church, Gosforth Lane, Our Oxhey. Opened on 17 January 1953.
  145. Church History: the story, the beginnings (from the golden anniversary booklet, 1953–2003), Carpenders Park and South Oxhey Methodist Church. Early services in a Nissen hut used as a workmen's canteen, with permission from the contractors and the LCC. Foundation stones laid 30 August 1952, church opened 28 March 1953.
  146. South Oxhey, Wikipedia.
  147. Poor but proud: John Schad interviews David Reidy (2012), Our Oxhey.
  148. Memories of Leven Close, Woodhall and Hampden, Our Oxhey.
  149. South Oxhey: St Joseph, Taking Stock: Catholic Churches of England and Wales. Wrongly says the estate was begun before the Second World War.
  150. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 382 to 385: Appendix Eleven, South Oxhey Times, No. 1, October 1956.
  151. Light Air Craft Crash at Oxhey Golf Course, about 1956 to 1959, Our Oxhey.
  152. Came The Day: South Oxhey Carnival 1957, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). With reader comments on the cine film.
  153. A Piece Of South Oxhey History (Watford Observer, 1963), Our Oxhey. Says Oxhey Place was burned down three years earlier.
  154. The London Gazette, 28 March 1961, issue 42314, p. 2347 (New Parishes Measure 1943: All Saints, Oxhey), The Gazette.
  155. Watford Rural civil parish: total population, 1901 to 1971 census, A Vision of Britain through Time (GB Historical GIS, University of Portsmouth). Table of census totals. 1951: 22,415 on the boundaries of the day (3,894 in 1931 on the same boundaries). 1961: 23,663, with 18,350 given for 1951 on the 1961 boundaries. This work is based on data provided through www.VisionofBritain.org.uk and uses historical material which is copyright of the Great Britain Historical GIS Project and the University of Portsmouth.
  156. Watford Rural, Wikipedia. Says boundary changes in 1952 left the parish covering just the area around South Oxhey and Carpenders Park.
  157. Corbett House and Silkin House, Oxhey Place, South Oxhey, Tower Block UK, University of Edinburgh.
  158. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 79 to 80: Oxhey Chapel, with the December 1963 appeal leaflet of the Save the Oxhey Chapel Fund.
  159. Famous names head 'Save chapel' appeal (newspaper article, 1963), Our Oxhey.
  160. All Saints Church: just prior to demolition, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). Reader comments include John Swain on the Clarendon Youth Wing.
  161. Protest over lack of pedestrian crossing, 13 October 1963 (Watford Observer photograph), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  162. Clarendon School: opening of the new swimming pool in 1963, Our Oxhey.
  163. Greater London Council, Wikipedia. Established 1 April 1965 under the London Government Act 1963, replacing the LCC.
  164. Young Roger Moore signing autographs at South Oxhey Fete, 1965, Our Oxhey.
  165. Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 National Grid, TQ19SW (A edition, published 1968), National Library of Scotland. Revised 1958 to 1967. For its 1960s layer, this site's map joins this sheet to TQ09SE (revised 1959 to 1965, published 1965).
  166. Memories of Buildings Gone (comments on the Oxhey Drive workmen's hut and the Salvation Army hut), Our Oxhey.
  167. Modern Technology at Oxhey Wood Primary School, 1969, Our Oxhey.
  168. Oxhey Jets celebrate club’s 40th anniversary (8 June 2012), Watford Observer. Club established 1 June 1972 as an under-12 side.
  169. Oxhey Jets F.C., Wikipedia.
  170. South Oxhey Playing Fields Greenspace Action Plan 2019–2024 (draft), Three Rivers District Council.
  171. Oxfam Shop 40th Anniversary, 27 March 2015, Our Oxhey.
  172. The London Gazette, 25 March 1976, issue 46858, page 4438 (Pastoral Measure 1968 notices), The London Gazette. Order in Council of 17 March 1976 confirming the scheme declaring Oxhey Chapel redundant.
  173. The London Gazette, 29 December 1977, supplement 47416, page 16121 (Pastoral Measure 1968 notices), The London Gazette. Item 13: Order in Council of 21 December 1977 making the Redundant Churches Fund responsible for Oxhey Chapel.
  174. Clarendon School: aerial view of the school in 1953, Our Oxhey.
  175. The Greater London Council (Transfer of Land and Housing Accommodation) Order 1980 (SI 1980/320), legislation.gov.uk. Made 6 March 1980, laid before Parliament 17 March 1980, in operation 31 March 1980. Transfers GLC housing listed in 45 deposited schedules to London borough and district councils on 1 April 1980 unless a schedule gives another date (no later than 31 March 1981). The schedules are not online, so the order itself does not name South Oxhey.
  176. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 40 to 67: Chapters Three and Four, 1971 to 2014.
  177. St Joseph's Catholic Church (photograph and note from Geograph), Our Oxhey.
  178. Oxhey Hall, Watford Rural (list entry 1347877, Grade II*, listed 3 October 1985), British Listed Buildings (Historic England list text).
  179. Barn about 30 metres south-east of Oxhey Hall Farm House, Watford Rural (list entry 1101591, Grade II), British Listed Buildings (Historic England list text).
  180. Goodbye Sir James Altham School (Watford Observer, 21 July 1989, transcribed), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  181. Sir James Altham School (URN 129155): closed 31 August 1989, Get Information about Schools (Department for Education).
  182. Oxhey Playing Fields: Call to launch appeal, Our Oxhey.
  183. South Oxhey Playing Fields GAP 2024–2029 Briefing Document (October 2023), Three Rivers District Council.
  184. South Oxhey (church entries), Hertfordshire Churches in photographs. Methodist church of 1952, St Martin's of 1953, St Joseph's of 1960 by Archard and Partners.
  185. St Martins Church: the old and the new, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  186. Oxhey Hall moated site (scheduled monument 1010727, scheduled 2 January 1992), Ancient Monuments UK (Historic England scheduling text).
  187. Oxhey's best kept secret: a 1993 Watford Observer article on Oxhey Chapel, Our Oxhey.
  188. Hangers Wood School (URN 129181), Department for Education, Get Information about Schools.
  189. ASCEND (All Saints’ Centre for Employment and New Directions): Working in the Heart of South Oxhey, ASCEND, a project of Watford & Three Rivers Trust. Says ASCEND has been in South Oxhey since 1996 and became a project of Watford & Three Rivers Trust in April 2024. The address is given by the county council's Hertfordshire Directory.
  190. ASCEND (South Oxhey), Hertfordshire County Council, Hertfordshire Directory. Address: All Saints' Church, Gosforth Lane, South Oxhey. Page last reviewed 24 December 2025.
  191. Oxhey Woods Local Nature Reserve, ParksHerts. 97.7 hectares, designated a Local Nature Reserve in 1997, owned by Three Rivers District Council.
  192. Oxhey Woods LNR, Natural England, Designated Sites View.
  193. Watford's Local Hero: Arthur 'Wag' Bowerman awarded the M.B.E., Our Oxhey.
  194. Clarendon School - Clarendon Block, prior to demolition in 2002, Our Oxhey.
  195. The sun goes down on Clarendon School, 2002, Our Oxhey.
  196. Timeline of your new Oxhey Library (Hertfordshire Libraries), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire Archives community archive). 2007 award of £1.4m from the Big Lottery Fund to remodel and expand the library. Closed August 2008, reopened 5 September 2009.
  197. The South Oxhey Library Book: thoughts on libraries from people of South Oxhey (post by Beverley Small), Our Oxhey.
  198. 39 Oxhey Drive: the temporary library from summer 2008, Our Oxhey.
  199. South Oxhey Library, the old building on Oxhey Drive until 2009, Our Oxhey.
  200. Tenants say yes (result of the housing stock transfer ballot, dated 1 August 2007), Three Rivers District Council. 80.6% yes, 19.4% no, turnout 62.5% (2,916 votes). Transfer expected spring 2008.
  201. Statement of Accounts 2023/24 (draft), Three Rivers District Council. Capital receipts note: the council sold its housing stock to Thrive Homes Ltd in 2008.
  202. CPO Report to the Secretary of State: Three Rivers District Council (Land at Henbury Way … Station Approach, South Oxhey) Compulsory Purchase Order 2016 (Inspector Ken Barton, 30 January 2017), Department for Communities and Local Government (council copy archived by the Internet Archive). Order made 27 April 2016. Inquiry 22 and 23 November 2016. Planning permission granted 31 May 2016. Thrive acquired the council homes in 2008. Order land held 78 commercial and 127 residential units.
  203. The Choir (TV series), Wikipedia. The Choir: Unsung Town, four episodes, BBC Two, 1 to 22 September 2009.
  204. Comic poet John Hegley comes to Oxhey, Our Oxhey.
  205. Official Opening of ASCEND's Allotment, Our Oxhey.
  206. Introducing this website, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire Archives community archive). The site launched in 2010 and is run by volunteer editors.
  207. South Oxhey Initiative: the future of South Oxhey (open day, 7 April 2011), Our Oxhey.
  208. South Oxhey Initiative, December 2011 (Terence O'Rourke for TRDC, Executive Committee 30 January 2012, item 17a), Three Rivers District Council.
  209. STEP UP: new project for South Oxhey, Our Oxhey.
  210. Nanscott House - Prestwick Road, Our Oxhey.
  211. Starting Work In South Oxhey: Boots The Chemist, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A resident who started work in St Andrew's Road about 1960 to 1961.
  212. Four Hundred Years of Oxhey Place, Houses and People (John F. Akam), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  213. South Oxhey precinct area to be modernised (1 February 2012), Three Rivers District Council. Unanimous vote on 30 January 2012. Only 3% voted for no change in the consultation.
  214. Oxhey book launch 30th June 2012 (post and photographs by Neil Hamilton), Our Oxhey.
  215. New Methodist Church, Prestwick Road (17 October 2013), Our Oxhey.
  216. Methodist Church, Prestwick Road: the old and the new, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). With a reader comment on the church youth club about 1959 to 1960.
  217. Old and New 'Clitheroe Club' Building, Our Oxhey.
  218. Birthday party for the station: Carpenders Park centenary celebrations, 1 April 2014, Our Oxhey.
  219. Blue plaque for Carpenders Park Station (April 2014), Our Oxhey.
  220. New Clitheroe Club: launch of the Age UK Health and Wellbeing Centre (November 2014), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  221. South Oxhey parkrun event history, parkrun.
  222. Developer Partners chosen for the South Oxhey Initiative (21 May 2015), Three Rivers District Council.
  223. Contract agreed for South Oxhey development (29 December 2015), Three Rivers District Council.
  224. South Oxhey regeneration (project page), Hertfordshire Futures (formerly Hertfordshire LEP).
  225. South Oxhey £150M regeneration wins planning approval (22 March 2016), Three Rivers District Council.
  226. South Oxhey Film: the estate now and then (quoting the Watford Observer, April 2016), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  227. Phases of Development, Love South Oxhey Central (archived 30 November 2021), Countryside and Home Group (via Internet Archive).
  228. Is this the end for the Crescent Club? (Watford Observer, 12 November 2010, with later updates), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  229. Work starts on £172M regeneration scheme in South Oxhey (12 December 2016), Three Rivers District Council. Ground-breaking for Phase 1A on 6 December 2016.
  230. The Dick Whittington public house, Prestwick Road (with comment by Neil Hamilton), Our Oxhey.
  231. Decision letter confirming the South Oxhey Compulsory Purchase Order 2016 (27 March 2017), DCLG National Planning Casework Unit (council copy archived by the Internet Archive). Twelve objections, ten withdrawn. Secretary of State accepts the Inspector’s recommendation and confirms the order.
  232. South Oxhey Initiative: CPO Confirmation Documents (archived 2018), Three Rivers District Council (via Internet Archive). Lists the confirmed order as dated 4 April 2017.
  233. Scout Hut, Oxhey Drive: Fayer Hall, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  234. Phase 2 planning approval at £172m South Oxhey Central development (14 November 2017), Three Rivers District Council. First residents moved into Hayling Place (eight three-bedroom houses) in October 2017.
  235. The Grapevine Public House, Prestwick Road, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  236. New affordable housing project in South Oxhey on track for completion next March (4 October 2018), Three Rivers District Council.
  237. The Ox Public House, Bridlington Road, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  238. List of Assets of Community Value (29 July 2025), Three Rivers District Council.
  239. Countryside unveils Ann Shaw Garden in South Oxhey (archived 24 August 2019), Countryside Properties (via Internet Archive).
  240. Oxhey Park Golf Club, English Golf Courses. Old directory listing: Prestwick Road, 1,652 yards, par 29.
  241. Oxhey Park Golf Club, Golf Empire. Gives a 2019 closure. Weak source, which also confuses the site with Oxhey Park in Watford.
  242. South Oxhey market move (18 March 2020), Three Rivers District Council. Market area fronting Prestwick Road, up to 14 stalls, managed by Watford Rural Parish Council.
  243. South Oxhey Initiative (case study), Hertfordshire Building Control.
  244. Abandoned public swimming pool near Watford could become extra care homes (6 September 2023), HertsLive.
  245. Work Starts On Phase 3 Of South Oxhey Regeneration (photographs, November 2020 to June 2021), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire Archives community archive).
  246. Third phase of South Oxhey Central reaches highest point (14 September 2021), Three Rivers District Council.
  247. Census 2021 TS001: number of usual residents, 2022 wards (South Oxhey, Oxhey Hall & Hayling, Carpenders Park) and Three Rivers, Office for National Statistics via Nomis. South Oxhey 7,878. Oxhey Hall & Hayling 7,565. Carpenders Park 6,948. Three Rivers 93,771.
  248. Chair officially opens new Lidl supermarket in South Oxhey (6 November 2022), Three Rivers District Council.
  249. Nearly 140 homes retrofitted to be warmer, healthier and greener (1 December 2023), Three Rivers District Council.
  250. Local homes will be warmer and more energy efficient thanks to £1.6 million government grant (2 March 2022), Three Rivers District Council.
  251. Much-anticipated refurbishment works at South Oxhey playing fields begin (31 May 2023), Three Rivers District Council.
  252. District's first-ever council-owned dog exercise area to officially open (8 September 2023), Three Rivers District Council.
  253. Tom Lake Way Opening (2 June 2024), Oxhey Jets FC.
  254. Plans approved for adult day centre at former school site in South Oxhey (2 August 2024, Local Democracy Reporting), Harrow Online.
  255. Find an energy certificate: postcode WD19 6YL (Foxgrove Path), GOV.UK energy performance certificate register.
  256. Homes to buy (Foxgrove Path entry), Watford Community Housing.
  257. Watford locals left bewildered as fence blocking path to sports facilities suddenly appears without notice (27 December 2025), GB News. Cites the Watford Observer. No later update was found.
  258. Japanese technique used to create mini woodland in South Oxhey (23 January 2026), Three Rivers District Council.
  259. Volunteers' hard work commemorated at new woodland (25 March 2026), Three Rivers District Council.
  260. Council reacts to government intervention over Local Plan (19 March 2026), Three Rivers District Council.
  261. New survey reveals Hertfordshire has far more ancient woodland than previously recorded (16 June 2026), Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust.
  262. Page withdrawn: Thrive Homes Limited (updated 26 August 2026), Regulator of Social Housing (GOV.UK). Thrive Homes Limited transferred engagements to Watford Community Housing Trust on 1 June 2026.
  263. Watford Community Housing and Thrive Homes have merged, Watford Community Housing. Boards agreed 23 March 2026. Legal merger completed 1 June 2026, when the organisation became Chime Housing.
  264. Watford Rural area given chance to develop own planning policies (3 July 2026), Three Rivers District Council. Policy and Resources Committee, 29 June 2026.
  265. Government announces four unitary authorities in Hertfordshire (16 July 2026), Three Rivers District Council. South West Hertfordshire (Hertsmere, Three Rivers, Watford) from 1 April 2028, subject to parliamentary approval. Shadow elections May 2027.
  266. Review of local government reorganisation announced by government (7 September 2026), Three Rivers District Council. Council news item dated 7 September 2026 reporting that the government is reviewing and pausing the reorganisation process.
  267. New Furzewood Lodge care home opens its doors in South Oxhey, Watford (16 September 2026), Quantum Care.
  268. Oxhey Parish: history of the Anglo-Saxon parish and its Saxon boundaries, Our Oxhey.
  269. James Altham, Wikipedia.
  270. James Doyle Penrose, Wikipedia.
  271. Roland Penrose, Wikipedia.
  272. Crosse & Blackwell, Wikipedia.
  273. Oxhey Place and Oxhey Chapel, Oxhey Hall Residents' Association (OHRA). Says Thomas F. Blackwell bought in 1877, which other records contradict.
  274. Etching of site of Oxhey Wood School, Our Oxhey.
  275. IRC v Blackwell [1925] 10 TC 235 (case summary), Oxbridge Notes.
  276. Christmas 1915: Oxhey during the Great War, Our Oxhey.
  277. Fatalities at the Somme: William Gordon Blackwell, killed at Flers, 5 October 1916, Our Oxhey.
  278. Photograph, the drive at Oxhey Place in the 1930s, with John Swain’s caption, Neil Hamilton collection. Sent by John Swain on 19 October 2026 and published with his and Neil Hamilton’s permission. Swain’s printed caption identifies the view as looking north towards Green Lane and the golf clubhouse, the drive as leading to the mansion house, and the tree as "a fine specimen of a Lebanon cedar (Cedar libani) ... within the grounds of Oxhey Chapel", already over 100 years old and "still very much in evidence in 2004".
  279. My photos of South Oxhey, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). Reader comments recall Oxhey Place as the health centre.
  280. Carpenders Park: 'St Meryls' Estate (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey.
  281. Oxhey Place Doctors and Clinic, 1950 to 1956 (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey.
  282. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 386 to 387: Appendix Twelve, Ownership of the Oxhey Estate.
  283. Oxhey Hall Barn, Watford, Fletcher Crane Architects.
  284. Hamper Mill, also known as Souche's Mill, Our Oxhey.
  285. Lucy Gastor Childrens Home - Oxhey Hall, Our Oxhey.
  286. The Lucy Gaster Children's Home (Oxhey Hall), with reader comments, Our Oxhey.
  287. South Hertfordshire Landscape Character Assessment, Area 12: Oxhey Golflands, Hertfordshire County Council.
  288. Highlands, off Green Lane (way 705372263), OpenStreetMap contributors.
  289. John Swain, correspondence with this site, 6 to 8 October 2026, Personal correspondence. On the 2004 report and its 2010 short version, on Oxhey Park Golf Club running from 1991 to 2017 (he played it in 2003), on Ted Ray's working relationship with the head greenkeeper Sid Baker, which John had from Don Dunham, Baker's grandson, and on the chalk pit, which he takes to be medieval in origin and worked on into the Victorian era.
  290. Map of South Oxhey - Ordnance Survey 1899, Our Oxhey.
  291. Ordnance Survey six-inch, Middlesex V.SW (covers south Watford Rural), revised 1894 to 1895, published 1899, National Library of Scotland.
  292. London Coal Duty Marker on County Boundary where Road meets Potter Street Hill, Watford Rural (list entry 1101565, Grade II), British Listed Buildings (Historic England list text).
  293. Hangers Wood Way, South Oxhey (WD19 7), Streetlist.
  294. Little Furze Road, South Oxhey (WD19 7), Streetlist.
  295. Ordnance Survey six-inch, Buckinghamshire XLIX (covers Watford Rural), surveyed 1872 to 1874, printed 1883, National Library of Scotland. Fitted to today's map from its corners and checked against Oxhey Chapel and the two listed coal posts.
  296. Pond Wood, autumn 2013 and spring 2014, Our Oxhey.
  297. Pond Wood (way 27633968), OpenStreetMap contributors.
  298. Broadfields Lane, Watford (WD19 4), Streetlist.
  299. Ordnance Survey 25-inch, Hertfordshire XLIV.14, revised 1935, published 1936, National Library of Scotland.
  300. Silkin and Corbett House (Neil Hamilton), Our Oxhey.
  301. The Milk and Orange machine at Carpenders Park Station, Our Oxhey.
  302. Ancient Woodland (England) inventory, map data service, Natural England. Queried for this guide on 16 September 2026. No inventory woodland was found on the playing fields.
  303. Ancient woodland, Woodland Trust.
  304. Ancient Woodland - Revised (England) - Completed Counties, Defra Data Services Platform.
  305. Woodland Terms in Place-Names (quoting Oliver Rackham, The History of the Countryside, 1986), St John's College, Oxford.
  306. Oxhey Woods, Three Rivers District Council.
  307. Oxhey Woods Local Nature Reserve (leaflet with map), Hertfordshire County Council Countryside Management Service. Its map key includes the South Oxhey Circular Walk, shown within Oxhey Woods only.
  308. Oxhey Woods Local Nature Reserve, Northern Woodland (council interpretation board), Three Rivers District Council and Countryside Management Service. Read from our photo of the board, September 2026. The board text is not published online, so the link goes to the reserve's ParksHerts page.
  309. Oxhey Wood (a reader's photographs), Our Oxhey.
  310. Unnamed wood on the Warren Dell site (way 7989080), OpenStreetMap contributors.
  311. Ordnance Survey six-inch, Hertfordshire XLIV.NW, revised 1896, published 1899, National Library of Scotland.
  312. Oxhey mystery Chasm: a 1927 Pathe newsreel of a hole opening in Oxhey, Our Oxhey.
  313. Oxhey Woods (November 2012), Our Oxhey.
  314. Oxhey Woods Conservation Volunteers, Oxhey Woods Conservation Volunteers.
  315. About Us, Oxhey Woods Conservation Volunteers.
  316. NBN Atlas occurrence records inside the Oxhey Woods Local Nature Reserve, NBN Atlas. Queried 16 September 2026.
  317. Oxhey Chapel, Oxhey, Hertfordshire, Churches Conservation Trust. Its claim of an early monastic site is unproven.
  318. Oxhey Chapel (A brief history), extract from a book by Marjorie Bray, Our Oxhey. Lists chaplains from 1852, quotes the 1866 covenant, names the last Grimston burials.
  319. Oxhey Chapel: Saved In Time (Gladys Wray, Hertfordshire Countryside, Winter 1963, transcribed), Our Oxhey. Useful on the 1963 roof. Wrong on Altham as Chancellor of the Exchequer and on the size.
  320. Oxhey Chapel, All Saints' Church, South Oxhey. Annual carol service on the last Sunday before Christmas.
  321. Oxhey Chapel, by Roy Tricker (The Churches Conservation Trust, Spring 2010), The Churches Conservation Trust. The Trust's guidebook to the chapel, read from the copy displayed in the noticeboard in Gosforth Lane and photographed in September 2026. Photographs in it are by Christopher Dalton.
  322. South Oxhey (23 September 2014), Hertfordshire Churches blog. Weaker source. Quotes a CCT guide at length.
  323. Oxhey Chapel, Our Oxhey.
  324. Oxhey Chapel: Our Oxhey visit, 4 October 2013, Our Oxhey.
  325. Oxhey Chapel, St Matthew's Church, Oxhey. Repeats the monastic and Civil War stories. Says the tiles went to Menuhin's house in Hampstead.
  326. Oxhey Chapel: 17th century grade II listed, Our Oxhey. Wrong on the grade and on the redundancy year. Nigel Lee's 2025 comment disputes the Civil War story.
  327. Oxhey Chapel, in The Home Counties Magazine, volume 1 (1899), p. 341, Internet Archive. Summarises Newton Price's notes and reproduces an etching of the interior in 1897.
  328. Oxhey Chapel c 1897, with sheep (Hertfordshire Libraries photograph), Our Oxhey. Nigel Lee (2024) says the photo predates the 1897 work.
  329. Oxhey Chapel keeper (undated newspaper obituary, transcribed), Our Oxhey.
  330. Oxhey Chapel: Copper Beeches Down (Watford Observer, 1963, transcribed), Our Oxhey.
  331. Gilbert Longden, Wikipedia. MP for South West Hertfordshire 1950 to February 1974.
  332. All Saints' Church Dedication (Watford and West Herts Post), Our Oxhey. The page dates the report to October 1961. A later comment says the service took place in October 1964.
  333. John Trillo, Wikipedia. Bishop of Bedford 1963 to 1968, Bishop of Hertford 1968 to 1971.
  334. Churches Conservation Trust, Wikipedia.
  335. Oxhey Chapel: a building of historic interest in South Oxhey (citing the Watford and SW Herts Archaeological Society, 1979), Our Oxhey. Points to Marjorie Bray's paper in Hertfordshire's Past vol. 3 (1977).
  336. Oxhey Chapel, Wikipedia.
  337. County of London Plan, Wikipedia.
  338. The County of London Plan, 1943: 'this new world foreshadowed', Municipal Dreams.
  339. Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin, Wikipedia.
  340. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 9 to 11: letters to The Times and the West Herts Post, 1943 and 1944.
  341. Fight to retain Oxhey Place as beauty spot (Watford Observer, 21 April 1944, transcribed), Our Oxhey.
  342. Henry Willink, Wikipedia.
  343. South Oxhey Initiative: CPO and appropriation report by Bond Dickinson (Policy and Resources Committee and Council, 21 March 2016), Three Rivers District Council. Summarises the Lambert Smith Hampton condition report of November 2011 and gives the six-phase demolition programme (2016 to 2020).
  344. The future of South Oxhey, Our Oxhey.
  345. South Oxhey development results published (6 December 2012), Three Rivers District Council. 27 September 2012 workshop: 290 attended, 134 forms, 55% in favour, 27% against.
  346. Council to choose South Oxhey developer (27 July 2013), Three Rivers District Council. Research found just 16% of South Oxhey shoppers’ money was spent locally. Council leader quote on town centres.
  347. Council considers South Oxhey plan (4 October 2013), Three Rivers District Council.
  348. £600k South Oxhey Initiative has ‘achieved nothing’, says Councillor Ralph Sangster (10 January 2014), Watford Observer. £629,198 spent over three years. Thrive and Catalyst had pulled their support.
  349. South Oxhey Initiative consultation feedback (Levitt Bernstein, issued 11 April 2014), Three Rivers District Council. 27 March 2014 event: 345 attended, 114 forms, 63% in favour, 22% against.
  350. South Oxhey Residents Association, Our Oxhey.
  351. Funding boost for the South Oxhey Initiative (2 February 2015), Three Rivers District Council.
  352. South Oxhey Initiative: final bids now in (20 April 2015), Our Oxhey.
  353. South Oxhey Central (British Homes Awards finalist entry), British Homes Awards.
  354. South Oxhey Central shared ownership brochure (file V4 240110), Persona Homes by Home Group.
  355. South Oxhey Initiative, Gardner Stewart Architects.
  356. Station Square, Gardner Stewart Architects.
  357. South Oxhey (phase 3 project page), BPTW architects.
  358. South Oxhey Central wins at the LABC Building Excellence Awards 2023, Countryside Homes (Vistry Group).
  359. South Oxhey Phase 3: award winning regeneration project of 345 homes (2 April 2024), HAP Architects.
  360. South Oxhey developers submit planning application (13 January 2016), Three Rivers District Council.
  361. Planning Committee, 25 February 2016, item 11: 16/0005/FUL hybrid application, South Oxhey (preliminary report), Three Rivers District Council. 514 homes, 96 affordable (18.7%), all initially social rent, re-providing existing social rented homes. Policy CP4 seeks about 45%. HCC Public Health comment. 21 responses and two petitions. Site description names the library and William Morris Hall as outside the site boundary.
  362. Annual Monitoring Report 2020/21, Three Rivers District Council.
  363. Main Shopping Area - April 2016, Our Oxhey.
  364. South Oxhey Central dedicates new buildings to local heroes (15 July 2019), Three Rivers District Council.
  365. The Jet Public House, Hayling Road, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  366. Find an energy certificate: postcode WD19 7EH and neighbouring postcodes, GOV.UK energy performance certificate register.
  367. FAQs, Love South Oxhey Central (archived 25 June 2021), Countryside and Home Group (via Internet Archive).
  368. Demolition of Bridlington Road Car Park and Garages, Our Oxhey.
  369. Sad death of Ann Shaw OBE, former Leader of the Council (18 May 2017), Three Rivers District Council.
  370. Planning Committee 17 November 2016, item 10: 16/2040/AOD, Phase 1B Station Approach (preliminary report), Three Rivers District Council.
  371. Planning Committee 15 December 2016, item 10: 16/2304/FUL, Fayer Hall Scout hut, Oxhey Drive, Three Rivers District Council.
  372. Annual Monitoring Report 2017/18, Three Rivers District Council.
  373. Planning Committee 19 October 2017, item 8: 17/1436/AOD, Phase 2, Land at South Oxhey Central, Three Rivers District Council.
  374. Main Shopping Area: September 2018 to March 2019, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire Archives community archive).
  375. Find an energy certificate: postcode WD19 7EW and neighbouring postcodes, GOV.UK energy performance certificate register.
  376. OpenStreetMap way 1053725875, Saint Andrews Way, OpenStreetMap.
  377. Hundreds more homes as work starts on third phase of South Oxhey Central (1 February 2021), Three Rivers District Council. Demolition complete. Phase 2 retailers and market square open. 264 homes delivered to date.
  378. South Oxhey Market, Watford Rural Parish Council.
  379. Recent shots from the South Oxhey Central redevelopment, Our Oxhey.
  380. Prestwick Road Post Office Site Redevelopment, Our Oxhey.
  381. Annual Monitoring Report 2022/23, Three Rivers District Council. 150 homes completed at 19/2133/FUL in 2022/23. South Oxhey centre 54.9% vacant.
  382. Local Plan Annual Monitoring Report 2023/2024 (December 2024), Three Rivers District Council. 41 homes completed at 19/2133/FUL in 2023/24. September 2024 shop survey: 53.8% of South Oxhey centre units vacant, explained by phased redevelopment (paras 6.17 and Table 6.8).
  383. Private Thomas Christopher Lake killed in Afghanistan (fatality notice), Ministry of Defence (GOV.UK).
  384. OpenStreetMap way 1364122973, Tom Lake Way, OpenStreetMap.
  385. Fewer vacant shops in Three Rivers despite multiple challenges for High Street (11 November 2021), Three Rivers District Council.
  386. Three Rivers shop vacancy rate outperforms national average (25 November 2024), Three Rivers District Council.
  387. South Oxhey neighbourhood shortlisted for Best Regeneration at the Evening Standard New Homes Awards, BPTW.
  388. South Oxhey Central shortlisted at the British Homes Awards 2023, Countryside (Vistry Group).
  389. Find an energy certificate: postcode WD19 6AF (Chess Court), GOV.UK energy performance certificate register.
  390. Planning application 16/2683/FUL, The Grapevine Public House, Prestwick Road: committee report (March 2017), Three Rivers District Council. Word document. Gives the site as the corner of Prestwick Road and Heysham Drive and lists planning history back to W/225/60.
  391. Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: external wall insulation, Thrive Homes.
  392. Plans to transform derelict South Oxhey school site into adult day care centre (19 March 2025, Local Democracy Reporting), Harrow Online. Sir James Altham site: school closed 1989, pool shut 2020. Day centre site given planning approval in August 2024. County officers consider the pool and car park suitable for about 76 affordable extra care homes, with Watford Community Housing Trust as preferred partner. Discussed at a county cabinet panel on 14 March 2025.
  393. Foxgrove Path brochure (October 2025), Watford Community Housing.
  394. Foxgrove Path (new-build aftercare), Watford Community Housing.
  395. South Oxhey Central (development page, viewed September 2026), Countryside Homes (Vistry Group). Advertises final apartments remaining.
  396. OpenStreetMap way 7976071, Station Approach, OpenStreetMap.
  397. Carpenders Park Station 100 years old, Our Oxhey.
  398. Carpenders Park Station: Watford Junction to Euston train circa 1925, Our Oxhey.
  399. History of Oxhey Golf Club, Our Oxhey.
  400. Golf Clubs and How to Use Them (Edward Ray, 1922), Internet Archive.
  401. Oxhey Golf Club objects in Neil Hamilton's collection, photographed October 2026, Personal correspondence. A Ted Ray autograph model driving iron stamped OXHEY G.C., HERTS ENG., and an enamel lapel badge of the Oxhey Artizans Golf Club. Both were bought by Mr Hamilton many years ago. He photographed them and sent the pictures on 14 October 2026, and they are published with his permission.
  402. Don Dunham, notes on Sid Baker, head greenkeeper of Oxhey Golf Club, 5 May 2004, Don Dunham Collection. Two pages of typed notes on his grandfather, sent by John Swain on 10 October 2026. The facts are used here in this site's own words. Don Dunham had intended a short biography of Ted Ray and gathered much of what is known about both men.
  403. Sid Baker's silver half-hunter pocket watch, from the Dunham family archive, Don Dunham Collection. The engraving reads PRESENTED TO S. BAKER, Runner-up in the GOLF GREENKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION TOURNAMENT AT EPSOM on August 19th 1924, by Messrs James Carter and Company, seed merchants. Photographed by Neil Dunham and published with his permission. Don Dunham's notes of 2004 call the body the National Greenkeepers' Association; the watch itself says Golf Greenkeepers' Association, and the watch is the contemporary evidence.
  404. Don Dunham, plan of Oxhey Golf Course in 1939, traced from the club brochure, with annotations by Dunham and John Swain, Dunham family archive. Sent by John Swain on 14 October 2026 from the Don Dunham collection, and published with Neil Dunham’s written permission of 15 October 2026. The annotations are by both men: Swain says the red writing is his, and he cropped further notes off the bottom edge before sending it. The green pencil beside the Oxhey Hall estate reads 1934 to 1939. Swain wrote on 16 October 2026 that the estate’s dates should be 1931 to 1939, and that the plan is useful chiefly for following the re-routing of the course from 1936.
  405. The Dunham family archive, photographed by Neil Dunham, Don Dunham Collection. Sid Baker's pocket watch, a Ted Ray autograph-model niblick stamped for Oxhey Golf Club, a greenkeeping tool stamped O.G.C., and family photographs on the course. Sent to this site by Neil Dunham, Don Dunham's son and Sid Baker's great-grandson, on 13 October 2026 with permission to use them.
  406. Photograph of Elsie Baker on the fifth green, summer 1938, Dunham family archive. Identified by John Swain as Sid Baker’s daughter Elsie, later Mrs Dunham and mother of Don Dunham, on the fifth green of the 1936 layout. Sent 14 October 2026 and published with Neil Dunham’s written permission of 15 October 2026.
  407. Advertisement for the Taylor, Vardon and Ray autograph golf clubs, Cann & Taylor, Ltd., 87 Grosvenor Avenue, East Sheen, London S.W.14. An undated press advertisement which Neil Hamilton says came from the Times of India. It is headed "J. H. Taylor, Harry Vardon, Ted Ray, Open Champion Golfers" above the words "Autograph Golf Clubs", names Cann and Taylor as the maker, and lists agents across India. The date and the paper rest on Mr Hamilton’s account. The text is read from the cutting itself. Sent 15 October 2026 and published with his permission.
  408. Mel, 'Golf Clubs and Golfers, No. II: Oxhey (Herts)', The Tatler, no. 1616, 15 June 1932, The Tatler. A full page of caricatures of the club’s members and officers, issue 1616, page 463. The artist signed himself Mel and drew a long series of golf club pages for The Tatler through the 1930s. Neil Hamilton has an original copy and sent a photograph of it on 13 October 2026. The page itself is reproduced here from a high-resolution scan supplied by Mary Evans Picture Library, who hold the Illustrated London News archive, under a licence taken out on 18 October 2026 for non-commercial use at no more than half a screen. The hi-res corrected four readings taken from the earlier photograph.
  409. Silent film of Oxhey Golf Course (1923 Pathé newsreel, Stage Golf), Our Oxhey.
  410. Tournament golf at Oxhey, September 1936, originally attributed to the London News Agency, Don Dunham Collection. Three press photographs kept by Don Dunham and sent to this site by John Swain on 7 October 2026, with his captions. He dated them 1938 but describes that as an estimate and accepts the earlier date: Oxhey staged the News of the World final stage in 1921, 1930 and 1936 only, and the 1938 final was at Walton Heath. John identifies the tall golfer second from the right in the first photograph as Alf Padgham, who won the Open in July 1936 and would therefore have been the reigning champion that September. London News Agency Photos has been gone for decades and its negatives appear to be lost; a British photograph of 1936 left copyright at the end of 1986 under the fifty-year term of the Copyright Act 1911.
  411. Bernard Darwin, notes in the Oxhey Golf Club brochure (written 1937, brochure 1939), Oxhey Golf Club. Quoted by John Swain on 19 October 2026 from his copy of the club brochure, the same document from which Don Dunham traced his plan of the course. Darwin, golf correspondent of The Times and the best known golf writer of his day, wrote the notes in 1937. The brochure itself has not been seen by this site.
  412. Postcards of South Oxhey Golf Club (a reader's collection), Our Oxhey.
  413. ARP Wardens in Oxhey, 1940, Our Oxhey.
  414. Oxhey Golf Club, "Notice to all Members", November 1942, Oxhey Golf Club. A typed single-sheet circular to members, signed by C. K. Cotton as Secretary. It carries three items. The staff Christmas fund, with individual donations capped at £1. The Anthony Blackwell Memorial Fund, raised under the Oxhey Civil Defence Organisation to endow a bed at Watford Peace Memorial Hospital, which describes Blackwell as "the owner and proprietor of the Oxhey Golf Club". And an English Golf Union salvage drive. From Neil Hamilton’s collection, sent on 15 October 2026 and published with his permission. Hamilton wrote on 17 October 2026 that this sheet was the only paperwork on the golf club the family it came from had kept, and that it survived precisely because nobody thought it mattered at the time.
  415. First station: halt for the golf course, Carpenders Park, 1938, Our Oxhey.
  416. Finding golf balls, Our Oxhey.
  417. Brian Helbrough (1940–2022), reconstruction of the post-war layout at Oxhey, Personal research, reported by John Swain. Swain wrote on 27 October 2026 that when he began studying the course in 2003 he had no idea the layout had changed, and that the post-war alterations complicate it further. Very few golfers who played the municipal course in the 1940s are still living. Helbrough interviewed players at local clubs who had known it and worked out the likely post-war layout. Swain then drew a sketch map of the changes, which was published in Poor But Proud at page 70.
  418. Decision to list The Pavilion as community asset upheld (6 June 2024), Three Rivers District Council.
  419. Champion golfer, Ted Ray, dies (Roy Case, 2019), roycase.co.uk.
  420. Ted Ray, player profile, The Open.
  421. Charles Kenneth Cotton, golf course architect, Top 100 Golf Courses.
  422. 1913 U.S. Open (golf), Wikipedia.
  423. Tom Webster's golf cartoons in the Daily Mail, 19 March 1936 and April 1936, Daily Mail. Two cuttings kept by John Swain and sent to this site on 7 October 2026, the dates written on them in his hand. 'Old Enough to Know Better', 19 March 1936, covers the Southern Professionals at Fulwell. 'No Ray of Sunshine', April 1936, covers the Daily Mail Golf Tournament at Bramshot. The drawings are not reproduced here: Tom Webster died in 1962, so they remain in copyright.
  424. The Scotsman, August 1920, on Japanese golfers taught by Ted Ray, The Scotsman. A cutting from Neil Hamilton's collection, sent to this site on 13 October 2026, which he dates to August 1920. It names Mr Y. Mishimi, a Japanese golfer who played at Oxhey and was one of a party of players from the Orient whom Ted Ray had under tuition. The piece also carries generalisations about Japanese players that belong to its period and are not repeated here.
  425. Neil Hamilton, correspondence with this site, October 2026, Personal correspondence. Research Officer of the Three Rivers Museum Trust, and one of the four who walked the old course on 24 March 2004. He gave permission on 13 October 2026 for the photographs he appears in.
  426. Photographs of Ted Ray's grave, Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford, Neil Hamilton collection. Two photographs taken by Neil Hamilton on a visit some years ago and sent on 17 October 2026, published with his permission. He does not give a date for the visit, so they do not show the grave as it stands now. The inscription reads: IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND EDWARD RAY, TED, WHO PASSED AWAY AUG. 26. 1943, AGED 66 YEARS. AT REST. ALSO OF EDITH, WIFE OF THE ABOVE, WHO PASSED AWAY DEC. 4. 1951, AGED 80 YEARS. REUNITED.
  427. Jersey golfer and first Ryder Cup captain Ted Ray remembered with memorial plaque (17 September 2021), ITV News Channel. Internet Archive copy of 30 September 2021.
  428. Special tribute to Jersey golfing pioneer, Bailiwick Express.
  429. Ashridge Drive: why wasn't this area of land built upon, Our Oxhey.
  430. London County Council: housing records (research guide), The London Archives. Says housing design was given to the LCC Valuer's Department from 1945 to 1949 and then returned to the Architect's Department.
  431. Debate on the Address, HC Deb 17 August 1945 (Greenwood on prisoners of war and housing sites), Hansard (UK Parliament).
  432. Very early 'facts' (hearsay), Our Oxhey.
  433. South Oxhey fifty years ago: transcripts of interviews with residents of the new estate in 1947, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  434. New book on the history of South Oxhey: launching 30th June 2012 (David Reidy), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  435. John Swain, correspondence with this site, 26 September 2026, Personal correspondence. John Swain lived on the estate from 1953 to 1965. He wrote to correct the account of the barber who cut his family's hair, after speaking to the barber's son.
  436. My Early Memories: baby clinic (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey. Remembers collecting baby food from the clinic at Oxhey Place before it burned down.
  437. A. H. John, A Liverpool Merchant House: being the history of Alfred Booth and Company 1863-1958 (George Allen and Unwin, 1959), Internet Archive (lending scan). Only p. 187 mentions Oxhey. Other passages are cited by chapter (ch. VII, ch. X The Unit Construction Company 1919 to 1939 from p. 144, ch. XI).
  438. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 303 to 311: Appendix Two, the LCC's pamphlet for the opening of the Oxhey estate (dated 20 November 1947, for the opening on 26 November) and the Watford Observer report of 28 November 1947.
  439. Government Policy, HC Deb 13 November 1951 vol 493 cc822-949 (Tomney, c866), Hansard (UK Parliament).
  440. Silkin House and Corbett House: houses in Matlock Crescent (2013), Our Oxhey.
  441. Oxhey Estate: Ceremonial opening, 1947 (record 266882, LCC Photograph Library), London Picture Archive, The London Archives.
  442. Oxhey Estate: New completed houses, 1947 (record 266883, LCC Photograph Library), London Picture Archive, The London Archives.
  443. Oxhey Estate: Interior, kitchen, 1947 (record 266855, LCC Photograph Library), London Picture Archive, The London Archives.
  444. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 16 to 17: the opening ceremony, November 1947.
  445. Bombed out of London (oral history), Our Oxhey.
  446. Growing up in South Oxhey: early memories, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A resident who moved in in 1948, with reader comments.
  447. Moving into South Oxhey (Braziers Dairies page, with reader comments), Our Oxhey.
  448. EAW022131 The South Oxhey Housing Estate under construction around Prestwick Road, 14 April 1949, Britain from Above.
  449. EAW022133 The South Oxhey Housing Estate under construction around Prestwick Road, 14 April 1949, Britain from Above.
  450. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 18 to 20: Chapter Two, The Early Years 1947 to 1970, by David Reidy.
  451. Cornish Unit House, Grace's Guide.
  452. Stent House on Corner of Woodhall Lane, 1948 and 2013, Our Oxhey.
  453. Prestwick Road: pre-cast concrete (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey.
  454. Sunday School at Hampden School, Little Oxhey Lane (resident memory mentioning the builders Matthew Hall), Our Oxhey.
  455. South Oxhey: Housing Estate Office, Oxhey Drive (with Neil Hamilton's comment), Our Oxhey. Hamilton dates the rescued shop-front plans for Station Approach and St Andrew's Road to the early 1950s.
  456. Council depot, rear of council offices, Oxhey Drive (Neil Hamilton), Our Oxhey.
  457. 22 Hamilton Road Part 1: happy memories by Brian Lawrie, 1947-1964, Our Oxhey.
  458. Old shopfront plans (Neil Hamilton), Our Oxhey.
  459. Rickmansworth: a chronicle, Three Rivers Museum Trust.
  460. Relationship between rainfall and run-off on a housing estate at Oxhey, Herts (611 acres), Dec 1954 (DSIR 12/287/11), The National Archives, Kew (Discovery).
  461. Congestion in 1951: station not fit for purpose (David Reidy), Our Oxhey.
  462. St Andrews Road Shops, Our Oxhey. Includes a photograph of St Andrew's Road before it was closed to traffic.
  463. Oxhey Precinct (1970 photograph, with comments), Herts Memories. A comment recalls St Andrew's Road being closed to cars to make the pedestrian precinct.
  464. Oxhey Housing Estate, opening of by Lady Nathan, 26 November 1947 (LCC/CL/CER/3/8/154), The London Archives, via TNA Discovery. Catalogue spells her name Natham.
  465. Oxhey Estate, Herts - General papers, 1943-48 (LCC/CL/HSG/2/39), The London Archives, via TNA Discovery.
  466. Oxhey Estate, Herts - General papers, 1948-52 (LCC/CL/HSG/2/40), The London Archives, via TNA Discovery.
  467. Oxhey Estate, Herts - General Papers, 1957-62 (LCC/CL/HSG/2/66), The London Archives, via TNA Discovery.
  468. Oxhey Estate: New completed houses, 1947 (record 266884, SC_PHL_02_0842_51_1023), London Picture Archive (LCC Photograph Library).
  469. Oxhey Estate: prize winning front garden, LCC Garden Competition, 1962 (record 275683), London Picture Archive (LCC Photograph Library).
  470. Oxhey Estate: View of shops, in the new shopping centre, 1963 (first of 30 prints, items 269066-269068 and 269091-269117), London Picture Archive (LCC Photograph Library).
  471. Oxhey Estate: Exterior, 1976 (first of 8 prints, items 269063-269065 and 269144-269148), London Picture Archive (LCC Photograph Library).
  472. Oxhey Estate: View of the renovation works in progress, 1976 (first of 9 prints, items 269149-269157), London Picture Archive (LCC Photograph Library).
  473. Mud everywhere: memories of the fifties (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey.
  474. Moving To The Area (David Reidy), Our Oxhey.
  475. Memories: South Oxhey was a great place to live, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A former Clarendon pupil who arrived in 1964.
  476. Living in Prestwick Road, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A Clitheroe Club member, recorded 2012.
  477. South Oxhey in the Fifties: how things have changed, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A resident who came from Whitechapel in 1955 on an exchange scheme.
  478. Points for a house in Oxhey, Our Oxhey.
  479. Moved to South Oxhey in 1948: no pavements, just ash paths (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey.
  480. Oxhey in the 1950s: it was fabulous, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A resident who moved in in the early 1950s.
  481. Early shopping memories (oral history), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A resident who moved from Shepherd's Bush in January 1950.
  482. Shopping on the estate in the 1950s, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A Clitheroe Club member, recorded 2012.
  483. Newly Married: arrived at South Oxhey, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A resident who arrived in 1952.
  484. Housing (Damage by Frost), HC Deb 21 February 1956 (David Llewellyn), Hansard 1803–2005 (UK Parliament). Cites a 1954 survey of the Oxhey estate by the Health Department of the London School of Hygiene (named in Hansard as the London School of Hygiene and Medicine).
  485. The Tally Man: Working in South Oxhey, Our Oxhey.
  486. Oxhey in the 50s: shopping and other memories, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A resident who commuted to the City.
  487. Buses that served Bushey and Oxhey, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A resident's memories, with a later note that the 346 reached South Oxhey in 1960, which a reader comment disputes.
  488. About us, All Saints' Church, Oxhey. The first All Saints' Church was built in 1953.
  489. South Oxhey Churches: St Martin's and St Joseph's (wedding photographs, 1957 and 1977), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  490. Dick Whittington, South Oxhey, CAMRA WhatPub.
  491. Coronation Street Parties, South Oxhey, Part 1 (from the West Herts Post, 11 June 1953), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  492. Those idyllic childhood days, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A resident's memories, filed under William Morris Labour Club.
  493. Well-Being of the Family, HL Deb 20 May 1953 (Earl of Selkirk), Hansard 1803–2005 (UK Parliament).
  494. Iris Jones-Simantel: return to South Oxhey (talk at Oxhey Library), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  495. Very Happy Memories, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A former Little Furze and Clarendon pupil.
  496. My thoughts on South Oxhey: change for better or worse (a resident's view), Our Oxhey.
  497. Just my memories, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A resident who moved in about 1952 to 1953.
  498. Woolworths, about 1964, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A former Saturday worker.
  499. The gas man: gas work in South Oxhey, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive). A British Gas fitter on the estate from 1980 to 1986.
  500. Nick Moran, Wikipedia.
  501. South Oxhey boxer Bellotti beats Fiaz to win Commonwealth title (October 2023), Watford Observer.
  502. A Literary Estate: South Oxhey in Words (May 2012), Bloomsbury Literary Studies Blog.
  503. Nick Moran: My family values (Nick McGrath, 8 February 2013), archived copy, The Guardian, via the Internet Archive.
  504. The Kid (2010 film), Wikipedia.
  505. Reece Bellotti, Wikipedia.
  506. The Late Walter Benjamin: documentary novel set in South Oxhey (John Schad), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  507. Writing the estate: creative writing workshop, 1 June 2012, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  508. Far from the East End (Iris Jones Simantel), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  509. Werewolves and horror: Steve Feasey comes to Oxhey Library (Hertfordshire Libraries, September 2010), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  510. Paul Field (bobsledder), Wikipedia.
  511. Embling Hall plaque, a memorial to James H Embling OBE, Our Oxhey.
  512. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey (David Reidy and Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), Google Books.
  513. A history of Carpenders Park Station 1914–2014: a book to celebrate the centenary (David Reidy), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  514. A History of Clarendon School, South Oxhey, by David Reidy, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  515. A history of Hampden School: book launch at Oxhey Library (9 October 2014), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  516. A History of Clarendon School, South Oxhey (David Reidy, 2016), Google Books.
  517. South Oxhey: a giant on their doorstep (Rose McNamara-Wright), Open Library record, Open Library. Gives 1996 and 64 pages.
  518. From the Slums of London to South Oxhey (Terry Trainor), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  519. South Oxhey Estate, a new book by Pete Boulter, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  520. Debunking Suburban Neurosis and the 'mundane trap' of the suburban villa (20 February 2019), Towards Successful Suburban Town Centres blog. Names Margot Jefferys and cites her 1964 chapter Londoners in Hertfordshire.
  521. Tropic of Ruislip, Wikipedia.
  522. Broadfield School: Mrs Blount's private primary school in St Francis church hall, Our Oxhey.
  523. Shops and mud: moving to South Oxhey in the late 1940s, Our Oxhey.
  524. Memories of early schooling on the estate (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey.
  525. Warren Dell school staff from the 1940s and 50s, Our Oxhey.
  526. First Day at Warren Dell Infant School, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  527. Crash landing ends tree's 100 year reign (Watford Observer, 26 March 1999, transcribed), Our Oxhey.
  528. Oxhey Wood School Uniform 1951, Our Oxhey.
  529. Oxhey Wood Junior School 1957: classes in the dining room, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  530. Oxhey Wood School Football Team 1955-56, Our Oxhey.
  531. Road crossing patrol: over 30 years at Oxhey Wood Primary School, Our Oxhey.
  532. School governor: 25 year celebration at Oxhey Wood Primary School, Our Oxhey.
  533. Wall painting by all the children at Oxhey Wood School, Our Oxhey.
  534. History of Hampden School - meet the author, 9 October 2014, Our Oxhey.
  535. Gardening Lessons at Hampden School, July 1962, Our Oxhey.
  536. Fashion Show - Hampden School 1961, Our Oxhey.
  537. Peter Swain OBE 1945-2021, Our Oxhey.
  538. Mr L W Stewart - Headmaster - Clarendon School 1954 - 1966, Our Oxhey.
  539. My First Day at Clarendon School, 1955 (a pupil's memory), Our Oxhey.
  540. Clarendon School: the head of music and bandmaster, 1952 to 1971, Our Oxhey.
  541. Clarendon School Band: a love of fine music (a former pupil), Our Oxhey.
  542. Clarendon School Brass Band: a former member's memories, 1955 to 1961, Our Oxhey.
  543. Pupils Make 'Flight Into Egypt' Mosaic, Clarendon School 1959, Our Oxhey.
  544. Modern Sculpture at Clarendon School, summer 1962, Our Oxhey.
  545. Modern Sculpture at Clarendon School - Part 2: the 'Acrobats' sculpture of 1962, Our Oxhey.
  546. Mural painting at Clarendon School, 1963, Our Oxhey.
  547. Clarendon School: 'The Crusader' statue and an art class, Our Oxhey.
  548. Pottery Display at Clarendon School, Our Oxhey.
  549. Our Oxhey visits Three Rivers Museum, Our Oxhey.
  550. Clarendon School: the rural science teacher, Our Oxhey.
  551. A New Book on the History of Clarendon School (with reader comments), Our Oxhey.
  552. Photo of Clarendon Old Boys 1960-61 season, Our Oxhey.
  553. Clarendon School basketball team, February 1961, Our Oxhey.
  554. Clarendon School - 1st XV Rugby Team - 1962, Our Oxhey.
  555. My first day at school: John Swain joins Little Furze Primary School, 1 March 1953, Our Oxhey.
  556. Clarendon School Fete 1961, Our Oxhey.
  557. Old Photos Come to Light: Clarendon School pupils and teachers of the early 1960s, Our Oxhey.
  558. Clarendon School Dancing Competition, 26th October 1963, Our Oxhey.
  559. Christmas Dinner, Clarendon School 1963, Our Oxhey.
  560. A trampolining Bryn Jones, ex-Watford F.C., Our Oxhey.
  561. Navy Officers showing Clarendon School boys the ropes, June 1965, Our Oxhey.
  562. Little Furze - Was this your school?, Our Oxhey.
  563. Memories of Little Furze School, 1964 to 1968 (a former pupil), Our Oxhey.
  564. Little Furze demolition images, Our Oxhey.
  565. Little Furze School - March 2013: starting to look sad and neglected, Our Oxhey.
  566. Primary schools in Three Rivers District, Wikipedia.
  567. Growing up in South Oxhey: 50's and 60's, Our Oxhey.
  568. A pupil's thumb: St Joseph's School, winter 1961, Our Oxhey.
  569. St Joseph's School Outing: a 1962 trip to Cassiobury Park, Watford, Our Oxhey.
  570. The Long Walk to School: a 1960s daily journey to St Joseph's School, Our Oxhey.
  571. Colnbrook School (URN 117670): community special school, Hayling Road, Get Information about Schools (Department for Education).
  572. Clarendon School used as a 'Fire Station' during the 1970s firemen's strikes, Our Oxhey.
  573. Clarendon School, Chilwell Gardens: then and now (2013), Our Oxhey.
  574. Northwick Multi Purpose Day Service, on the site of the old Clarendon School, Our Oxhey.
  575. Then and Now - Joint Schools Playing Field - Ainsdale Road - Designated for housing?, Our Oxhey.
  576. Hampden Secondary Modern School: history project by David Reidy, Our Oxhey.
  577. Little Furze Junior Mixed and Infant School (URN 117192): closed 16 December 2004, Get Information about Schools (Department for Education).
  578. Little Furze: gone (2023), Our Oxhey.
  579. Hertfordshire County Council hoarding at the Little Furze Care Home site, Gosforth Lane, Hertfordshire County Council and Kori Construction. Photographed by John Swain in late May 2023 and sent to this site on 4 October 2026. The board names the scheme Little Furze Care Home and gives 75 bedrooms, communal spaces, external courtyards and a cafe, with Kori as the contractor.
  580. 'The Barn' Carpenders Park c 1944: original Methodist church, Oxhey Lane, Our Oxhey.
  581. Methodist Church - 2011, Our Oxhey.
  582. Flowers, fruit and vegetables competition, Methodist Church Hall - St Meryl Horticulture Society, Our Oxhey.
  583. Youth group posing behind a well at Methodist Church, Our Oxhey.
  584. St Francis Church wedding photos, 1958, Our Oxhey.
  585. South Oxhey Baptist Church - Gosforth Lane (then and now, with a reader's memory), Our Oxhey.
  586. St Martins Church Fete - Summer 1963, Our Oxhey.
  587. St Martins Church - Muirfield Road: The Old and The New, Our Oxhey.
  588. All Saints Church: knocking down old church (with reader comments), Our Oxhey.
  589. Stained glass windows - All Saints Oxhey, Our Oxhey.
  590. All Saints Church, home to ASCEND, Our Oxhey.
  591. Friendly shopping in the 1960s: Barkers mobile grocery van, Our Oxhey.
  592. Mobile shop: shopping in South Oxhey in 1949, Our Oxhey.
  593. Ration Books in 1953 (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey.
  594. Pinner Green Bakery - Little Oxhey Lane - 1960, Our Oxhey.
  595. Little Oxhey Lane: a view from the balcony of the shops, 1968, Our Oxhey.
  596. Carpenders Park and South Oxhey (compiled street notes, 9 November 2017), Edith's Streets (blog). A compiled street-by-street local history blog, used only where no better source was found.
  597. GP surgery in South Oxhey, Manor View Practice.
  598. The Consulting Rooms, Oxhey Drive, The Consulting Rooms (GP practice).
  599. Dumpo: the mobile library that served Oxhey, Our Oxhey.
  600. Sir James Altham Pool, Little Oxhey Lane, Watford WD19 6FW (listing, marked closed), AllInLondon.
  601. Local leisure centres reopening date announced (22 July 2020), Three Rivers District Council.
  602. Oxhey Library, Hertfordshire Directory (Hertfordshire County Council).
  603. John Swain, correspondence with this site, 4 October 2026, quoting Kelly's Directory of Watford, 1952 edition, Personal correspondence. John Swain read the 1952 edition of Kelly's, which lists all eight Hallowes Crescent shops with their trades and states the details were correct as from 11 June 1951. He notes no sub-post office is listed at number 10 until at least 1953, and that several of the shops were still trading in 1960.
  604. Hallowes Crescent Post Office (branch finder), Post Office.
  605. Work and shops: a Clitheroe Club member's memories of South Oxhey from 1948, Our Oxhey.
  606. Shops in the Fifties and Sixties, Our Oxhey.
  607. Our Shop in South Oxhey: R & J Parsons hardware shop on Bridlington Road, Our Oxhey.
  608. Oxfam shop in Oxhey celebrate 40th anniversary, Our Oxhey.
  609. Find a bargain: Oxhey market in Bridlington Road, Our Oxhey.
  610. Early days in Oxhey: tea cakes and memories (a resident who moved to Oxhey in 1967), Our Oxhey.
  611. The Magic Robot: Terry Trainor's tenth birthday present, Our Oxhey.
  612. Carpenders Park Station Approach (2): 2008, 2017 and 2018, Our Oxhey.
  613. Oxhey Pavillion: the family public house threatened by private development, Our Oxhey.
  614. Arriving in the 'Country': new residents of South Oxhey (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey.
  615. Entrance to early Carpenders Park Station from Oxhey Golf Course, Our Oxhey.
  616. Footbridge to Carpenders Park station from St Meryls Estate, Our Oxhey.
  617. Carpenders Park station - 1924, Our Oxhey.
  618. Early Carpenders Park Station (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey.
  619. The lighting at the halt (David Reidy), Our Oxhey.
  620. Carpenders Park to Rickmansworth Aquadrome: our 1940s seaside (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey.
  621. Rickmansworth (Church Street) railway station, Wikipedia.
  622. It cost how much? Oxhey to Euston in 1948, Our Oxhey.
  623. Cow Lane and the trains, Our Oxhey.
  624. Carpenders Park Station Approach (1), Our Oxhey.
  625. Hertfordshire (Public Transport), HC Deb 1 November 1974 (Geoffrey Dodsworth), Hansard 1803–2005 (UK Parliament).
  626. From Hemel to Oxhey, 1976 (a couple's memory), Our Oxhey.
  627. Catching the train (reader comments), Our Oxhey.
  628. Poor But Proud: A History of South Oxhey, edited by David Reidy (Three Rivers Museum Trust, 2012), pp. 313 to 314: Appendix Three, some early voluntary organisations.
  629. Eddie Falcon and the Four Notes: South Oxhey group from the sixties, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  630. Gang Show pioneer (Our Oxhey people page), Our Oxhey.
  631. South Oxhey Rose Queen crowning, July 1964, Our Oxhey.
  632. Guiding in Oxhey: Girl Guides visit Oxhey Library, Our Oxhey.
  633. South Oxhey Scribblers book launch, Our Oxhey.
  634. A Literary Estate: creative writing workshop at Oxhey Library, Our Oxhey.
  635. A Literary Estate: from Oxhey Library to the Palace Theatre Watford, June 2012, Our Oxhey.
  636. Pop In To The Pop-Up!, Our Oxhey.
  637. A Second Chance To See Archive Films of Oxhey & Hertfordshire, Our Oxhey.
  638. Nowhere near London: a play about South Oxhey set in the late 1940s, Our Oxhey.
  639. Clitheroe Old People's Club 1964 (Watford Observer photograph), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  640. Clitheroe Club memories: the sing-song photo (a member's note), Our Oxhey.
  641. Clitheroe Club: end of an era? (Lovell redevelopment of Clitheroe Gardens, 2011), Our Oxhey.
  642. New Views in Clitheroe Gardens, Spring 2015, Our Oxhey.
  643. Clitheroe Club reminiscences, Our Oxhey.
  644. Holidays, bingo and fun with the Clitheroe Club, Our Oxhey.
  645. Last remnant of the GLC in Oxhey, Our Oxhey.
  646. Coach outing 1960's: charabanc trip to Southend from the old Submarine club, Our Oxhey.
  647. The Centre: South Oxhey leisure centre, by Beverley Small, Our Oxhey.
  648. Pottery for all: exhibition at Oxhey Library, 25 March 2011, Our Oxhey.
  649. Photos of Falkirk Gardens Coronation Party 1953, Our Oxhey.
  650. Coronation Party - Community Hall - Hayling Road, 1953, Our Oxhey.
  651. Prize winning blooms: front garden competition, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  652. Father Christmas visits South Oxhey 1961, Our Oxhey.
  653. Labour Party fair 1965, Our Oxhey.
  654. Oxhey Cricket Club (1950s photograph and 1953 membership card), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  655. Local Football Teams from the 1960s, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  656. South Oxhey Under 16's Winners of the Benevolent Cup, Good Friday April 12th 1963, Our Oxhey.
  657. Watford Roads: Watford's own cycling club, Our Oxhey.
  658. West Herts Cup 1965 - South Oxhey v Woodside, Our Oxhey.
  659. Oxhey Jets Football Club: founder awarded the British Empire Medal (2013), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  660. The Ricochets: a South Oxhey band, early 1960s, Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  661. Fancy a jacket potato? Cafeteria at ASCEND, Our Oxhey.
  662. ASCEND Awards 2010, Our Oxhey.
  663. Step Up your ICT skills, Our Oxhey.
  664. Oxhey Craft group at Oxhey Library, Our Oxhey.
  665. Blown away: a windy day at the OVEG Fayre 2012, Our Oxhey.
  666. Timeline of Our Oxhey, Our Oxhey.
  667. OVEG Fayre 2015, Our Oxhey.
  668. About us, South Oxhey Choir. Formed in 2008 for The Choir: Unsung Town. Rehearses on Tuesdays in term time at Oxhey Wood Primary School.
  669. South Oxhey Choir: learning the Agnus Dei in eight weeks, and a new song for the Watford Colosseum, Our Oxhey.
  670. Singing with the choir: from Watford Colosseum to Camden Roundhouse (a member's memory), Our Oxhey.
  671. Singing in the choir, by Beverley Small, Our Oxhey.
  672. Oxhey Choir: is my biggest memory (a choir member's memory, 2010), Our Oxhey.
  673. South Oxhey Choir Concert at the Palace Theatre 2011, Our Oxhey.
  674. Choir stall: South Oxhey Choir at the OVEG Summer Fayre, June 2011, Our Oxhey.
  675. South Oxhey Summer Fun Day 2011, Our Oxhey.
  676. Moving to South Oxhey: the later years (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey.
  677. London LOOP guide updates (August 2024 reader update on South Oxhey Playing Fields), Trailblazer Guides. Readers' updates, credited to several readers including John Swain, and not yet checked by the publisher.
  678. Carpenders Park, about 30 years ago (a resident's memory), Our Oxhey.
  679. Oxhey Cricket Club: club photos (a member's collection), Our Oxhey.
  680. Elvis the donkey: pony riding at Oxhey Golf Club circa 1960, Our Oxhey.
  681. The Park: creative writing on South Oxhey Park (a resident), Our Oxhey.
  682. Housing Act 1980 (Part I, Chapter I: The Right to Buy), legislation.gov.uk.
  683. Offerton House, north side of Oxhey Drive (Geograph photograph and caption), Our Oxhey (Hertfordshire community archive).
  684. English Indices of Deprivation 2025, File 7: all ranks, scores, deciles and population denominators, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Three Rivers 012D (E01023844): IMD rank 7,085 of 33,755, decile 3. Income, employment and health decile 2, crime decile 1. 012A, 012B, 012C: IMD deciles 6, 4, 5.
  685. LSOA (2021) to Ward to Lower Tier Local Authority (May 2022) Lookup for England, with LSOA 2021 boundaries, Office for National Statistics, Open Geography Portal. South Oxhey ward (E05009437) contains exactly four LSOAs: Three Rivers 012A, 012B, 012C and 012D.
  686. English Indices of Deprivation 2015, File 7: all ranks, deciles and scores, Department for Communities and Local Government. Three Rivers 012D: IMD rank 3,268 of 32,844, decile 1.
  687. Lower layer Super Output Areas (December 2021) Boundaries EW BFC (V10), Office for National Statistics, Open Geography Portal. Full-resolution boundary of Three Rivers 012D (E01023844). It runs west for nearly 2 km from a point about 100 m west of Carpenders Park station, and contains Oxhey Library and the new Lidl.
  688. English Indices of Deprivation 2019, File 7: all scores, ranks, deciles and population denominators, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Three Rivers 012D: IMD rank 4,265 of 32,844, decile 2, the only Three Rivers LSOA in deciles 1 or 2.
  689. English indices of deprivation 2025: frequently asked questions, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Q25: releases should not be viewed or construed as a time series.
  690. 2011 Census KS402EW tenure (and KS101EW population) for MSOA Three Rivers 012 (South Oxhey), Office for National Statistics via Nomis. 3,085 households: owned 47.1%, social rented 42.3%, private rented 8.8%. Population 7,306 from KS101EW for the same area. MSOA 012 has the same four LSOAs as the 2022 South Oxhey ward.
  691. Census 2021 TS054: tenure, South Oxhey ward, Office for National Statistics via Nomis. 3,223 households: owned 47.4%, shared ownership 1.6%, social rented 39.0%, private rented 11.8%.
  692. Ward lookup for postcodes along Hayling Road (ONS Postcode Directory), postcodes.io. WD19 7QR, 7QP and 7RA, and ten more points along the road, all fall in Oxhey Hall & Hayling ward.
  693. Ward lookup for postcodes along Woodhall Lane (ONS Postcode Directory), postcodes.io. WD19 6HA, 6HB and 6EP all fall in Carpenders Park ward.
  694. Housing Land Supply Update (24/25 Financial Year), April 2026, Three Rivers District Council. Base date 1 April 2025. 23/0699/AOD, land to the south of Foxgrove Path/Heysham Drive, 53 homes, listed as under construction.
  695. Have your final say before revised Local Plan is submitted (31 July 2026), Three Rivers District Council. Regulation 19 consultation 31 July to 25 September 2026. Examination expected in 2027.
  696. Prestwick Golf Club, Wikipedia.
  697. Price Paid Data: every property sale in England and Wales registered since 1995, HM Land Registry, under the Open Government Licence. We queried the postcodes WD19 6 and WD19 7 in September 2026 and compared them with central Watford and with the London County Council's other out-county estates.
  698. Policy and guidance on street naming and numbering in Warwick district, Warwick District Council. An example of a council that forbids leaving 13 out.
  699. Street name and numbering policy, version 3 (March 2020), Gedling Borough Council. An example of a council whose policy omits 13 by default.
  700. Three Rivers District Council, response to a Freedom of Information request, ref 1559-1026, 19 October 2026, Three Rivers District Council. Answering a request of 25 September 2026 about street naming and numbering. The council holds no historic numbering registers for the estate, because street naming before 1 April 1974 was Watford Rural District Council’s and that authority was abolished when Three Rivers was created. It holds no record of the original numbering of South Oxhey or of any decision to leave out 13. On the practice generally it says: "Historically the number 13 was not used in street naming and numbering, but we are unsure of when this was reintroduced." Its current policy states that "The No. 13 is no longer removed" and that numbers are not removed for religious or cultural reasons.
  701. Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, correspondence with this site, October 2026, Personal correspondence. Replying on 1 October 2026 to an enquiry about house-numbering records for the estate. HALS said house numbering is not an easy subject to research and that they do not usually hold series of registers of house numbering, and pointed to Watford Rural District Council files as the most promising place to look.
  702. Bushey & Oxhey Air Training Corps (way 1011114149), OpenStreetMap contributors.
  703. Early memories, winter 1943 to 1944 (with comments on Pond Wood), Our Oxhey.
  704. Prestwick Road Meadows, Wikipedia.
  705. Prestwick Road Meadows LNR, Natural England, Designated Sites View.
  706. £400k upgrade set to transform South Oxhey Leisure Centre gym (updated 14 October 2025), Three Rivers District Council. Says Everyone Active manages the centre in partnership with the council.
  707. The London Gazette, 27 December 1955, issue 40664, p. 7283 (St Martin's Church, South Oxhey, registered for marriages), The Gazette.
  708. South Oxhey Baptist Church (website with location map), South Oxhey Baptist Church.
  709. The London Gazette, 21 February 1956, issue 40715, p. 1084 (Oxhey Baptist Church, Gosforth Lane, registered for marriages), The Gazette.
  710. The London Gazette, 25 June 1954, issue 40215, p. 3768 (Carpenders Park and South Oxhey Methodist Hall registered for marriages), The Gazette.
  711. Roman Catholic Parish of Carpenders Park and South Oxhey: Church of St Joseph's, Diocese of Westminster parish website.
  712. The London Gazette, 5 January 1962, issue 42564, p. 166 (St Joseph's Catholic Church, Oxhey Drive, registered for marriages), The Gazette.
  713. Contact: our details, Watford Rural Parish Council. Parish Council Offices, Oxhey Drive, South Oxhey.
  714. South Oxhey Leisure Centre set to reopen with brand new facilities (27 August 2020), Three Rivers District Council.
  715. Woodhall Primary School (URN 117194), Department for Education, Get Information about Schools. Open community school, Hertfordshire local authority, Woodhall Lane. No opening date recorded.
  716. Oxhey Wood School: cow field to school field (2013), Our Oxhey.
  717. Clarendon School (category introduction), Our Oxhey.
  718. Oxhey Jets history, Oxhey Jets FC.
  719. New care home in South Oxhey nears completion (2 September 2024), Care Talk Business.
  720. Furzewood Lodge Residential & Nursing Home, South Oxhey, Quantum Care. 75 bedrooms. Its news list includes the home's opening in South Oxhey.
  721. Colnbrook Special School, Hertfordshire County Council schools directory.
  722. Welcome to Colnbrook School, Colnbrook School. Describes itself as a primary special school supporting children with learning difficulties, autism and speech and language difficulties.
  723. Service 328 timetable and stops, bustimes.org. Checked 16 September 2026, including the Saturday and Sunday timetables. Route numbers change, so check Intalink or Traveline before travelling.
  724. South Oxhey parkrun: course, facilities and getting there, parkrun.
  725. St Andrews Road - 2013 and c1990s, Our Oxhey.
  726. Partnership working, Watford Community Housing.
  727. South Oxhey Playing Fields, ParksHerts. Partly out of date: it still lists the Pavilion as a pub.
  728. South Oxhey Playing Fields (council web page), Three Rivers District Council. Car park and postcode, facilities, pitch and court booking, and the statement that there are no public toilets.
  729. OSRM walking routes on OpenStreetMap data, FOSSGIS routing service, routing.openstreetmap.de. Street walking distances and times worked out on 16 September 2026. Short cuts across the fields can be quicker.
  730. Moor Park tube station, Wikipedia.
  731. London Loop Section 14 of 24: Moor Park to Hatch End (revised December 2024), Inner London Ramblers, for Transport for London.
  732. South Oxhey tennis courts reopen following £50k revamp (30 November 2023), Three Rivers District Council.
  733. South Oxhey Tennis Courts (court booking), LTA ClubSpark. Booking now goes through LTA Play.
  734. Skate parks, Three Rivers District Council.
  735. South Oxhey and Carpenders Park play areas, Three Rivers District Council.
  736. Pavilion Bowls Club, Pavilion Bowls Club.
  737. South Oxhey parkrun, parkrun.
  738. Historic churches in Bedfordshire, Essex, Greater London, Hertfordshire (county guide, PDF), Churches Conservation Trust. Entry 23: keyholder nearby, Carpenders Park 400 yds.
  739. Oxhey Chapel, Gosforth Lane, South Oxhey (18 January 2013), Hertfordshire Churches in photographs.
  740. Hemlock (Conium maculatum) records at South Oxhey Playing Fields, iNaturalist.
  741. Bushey Museum, Our Oxhey.
  742. LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM), 1 m, Environment Agency, via data.gov.uk. Open Government Licence. Attribution: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved. The hollows and pits described in this guide are our own reading of the hillshade, not documented features.
  743. Ordnance Survey 25-inch, Hertfordshire XLIV.9, revised 1912, published 1914, National Library of Scotland.
  744. John Swain, photograph of the sixth fairway of Oxhey Golf Course, late August 1964, John Swain. His own photograph of the family's Alsatian, Pedlar, on the old sixth fairway, looking north-west to the elevated teebox at the edge of Hampermill Wood. Sent to this site on 13 October 2026. It was the dog's last walk; he died of kidney failure a few days later, aged seven.
  745. South Oxhey Playing Fields in March 2004, photographed by Don Dunham, Don Dunham Collection. From the walk round the old course on 24 March 2004 with his brother Dave Dunham, Neil Hamilton and John Swain, following the 1936 to 1946 order of play. Captions by John Swain. Sent by him on 7 October 2026 and published by permission of Don Dunham's son Neil Dunham, given on 10 October 2026. John Swain gives the date of the walk as 24 March 2004.
  746. South Oxhey Playing Fields in March 2004, photographed by John Swain, John Swain. Taken on the walk round the old course on 24 March 2004 with Don Dunham, Dave Dunham and Neil Hamilton, following the 1936 to 1946 order of play. Sent to this site on 10 October 2026 with John Swain's own captions.
  747. London Loop walk guides, Inner London Ramblers.
  748. Walking and cycling routes: South Oxhey and Hampermill Walk, Hertfordshire County Council Countryside Management Service. Checked 24 September 2026. The South Oxhey entry gives a 2.5 mile route lasting 90 minutes.
  749. South Oxhey circular walk (leaflet with map), Hertfordshire County Council Countryside Management Service. The leaflet is a scan with no text layer. A text-only version without the map is published alongside it.
  750. Oxhey Woods sculpture trail (leaflet), Hertfordshire County Council Countryside Management Service.
  751. Hampermill Walk (leaflet with map), Hertfordshire County Council Countryside Management Service and Watford Rural Parish Council. A 2 mile circular walk to Hampermill Lake, taking in the Ebury Way.
  752. Hertfordshire Health Walks, Watford and Three Rivers: timetable of walks, September to December 2026, Hertfordshire County Council. Walks are free, and walkers register once before their first walk.
  753. Watford and Three Rivers Ramblers, The Ramblers. Checked 24 September 2026.
  754. A healthy walk around South Oxhey, Our Oxhey.
  755. Just a little wander: a historical walk around South Oxhey, Our Oxhey.
  756. I took a walk on the wild side: health walk in South Oxhey, Our Oxhey.
  757. Watford: Hampermill Lake (Geograph photo 3747332), Geograph Britain and Ireland.
  758. Footpaths, Watford Rural Parish Council.
  759. Legalities (terms of use), Britain from Above (Historic Environment Scotland for the project partners, including Historic England).
  760. Aerial Photo Explorer, Historic England. Its RAF vertical sorties RAF/HLA/647 (22 December 1942) and RAF/106G/UK/686 (23 August 1945) include frames covering the course area.
  761. Inventories of furniture, books, plate and pictures at Oxhey Place and Newton Priory (HALS DE/Go/F13), in DE/Go: Oxhey estate papers of the Bucknall and Estcourt families, 1670-1888, The National Archives Discovery (held by Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).
  762. South Oxhey parish records, 1917-1990 (DP117J), Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, The National Archives, Discovery.
  763. Carpenders Park and South Oxhey Methodist Church (NM7R), Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, The National Archives, Discovery.
  764. Green Belt - Hertfordshire - Whippendell Woods, Watford and Oxhey Estate, 1935-65 (LCC/CL/PK/1/116), The London Archives, via TNA Discovery.
  765. Discovery search: Oxhey estate, 1943-1960, other archives (includes LCC/AR/HS/3/37 and HALS DP117F/1/50), The National Archives, Discovery.