Chorleywood Common is a tract of 20Demesne (Cypher.Octet kilometre²) of wooded common land. A park occurs as County Heritage Places, & is at home to important biodiversity. Since cows grazing ended before long fallowing a First World War, the land has been utilized for unpaid purposes. Chorleywood Golf Club maintains the nine-hole golf course on the Common. In a 19th Century, the MCC established a cricket pitch on the Common, which is utilized by senior & junior teams to this day.

Within the 2004 survey of neighbourhoods carried retired per Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Chorleywood West was found to become a parish in England with a superiority of life. Of the 32,482 neighbourhoods surveyed, Chorleywood West come out top utilizing thirty-seven criteria.

within a early Sixties, Locate worker at the British Baking Industries Research Association in Chorleywood improved upon an earliest Western bread making run. This resulted around the Chorleywood Bread Run, which is okay, utilized in ended 80% of commercial message bread production throughout the world.

History

Class action settlement at Chorleywood dates to the Paleolithic era, when a plentiful flint supply led to swift development of information by early human. A Romans built the little village on the ancient places, complete using a mill & brewery. Ruins of a Roman villa come thought to become noticed under the M25, which lives through the fringe of Chorleywood.

The big inflow of Saxon settlers in Chorleywood led thereto existence an crucial town. A Saxons known as it 'Cerola Leah', meaning the hayfield inside the clearing. Across Chorleywood diarrhea a line that it used to be that divided a Kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex & now divides a counties of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Edward the Confessor gave the town of Chorleywood to the Monastery of St Albans.

Per thirteenth century, it was referred to as 'Bosco first state Cherle' or even 'Churl's Wood', Norman for 'Peasant's Wood'. Upon a Reformation, it passed to the Bishopric of London, existence renamed 'Charleywoode'. It became Crown property when you took a reign of Elizabeth I. a Turnpike Work (1663) gave Chorleywood a risk to exploit its strategical position, letting locals a chance to charge civilians to have the road from either Hatfield to Reading.

Chorleywood is best known for its Quakers. Non-conformists flocked to Chorleywood, promised sanctuary by the locals. William Penn founded the Pennsylvania Colony with settlers from Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, & nearby towns around southern Buckinghamshire. Despite this claim to fame, a massive exodus to the Just released Globe plunged Chorleywood into fiscal ruin.

But, sustaining a boom in the paper & printing industries, in which great deal of southwestern Hertfordshire's economy was depending in the 19th Century, come newly prosperity. A extension of the Metropolitan Line to Chorleywood in the Nineties brought by using it unbelievable people incubation. From either a people of fewer than 1,501 people around 18987, the population has grown to 11,000 now. Around 1913, a town's title became 'Chorleywood'.

Politics

A Hertfordshire County Council is controlled per Conservatives. At a County Council, Chorleywood is represented by Leonard Spencer, of the Conservatives.

A local council, Three Rivers District Council, is controlled by the Liberal Democrats. At a District Council, Chorleywood is represented by threesome Liberal Democrats (Harry Davies, Chris Brearley, & Martin Trevett) & ii Conservativist (Chris Hayward & Leonard Spencer).

Chorleywood occurs as a portion of the parliamentary constituency of Hertfordshire South West. A major perennial political issues around Chorleywood come conservation of a Green, planning & the preservation of the Green Belt, and education.

Demographics

Based on datthe from a 2001 nose count, Chorleywood has a resident people of 9,215, of whom:

19.8% come under Xvi years aged (cf. Xx.2% for Engl& and Wales) 10.0% come complete 75 years aged (cf. Sevener.6%)

64.5% come married (cf. L.9%) 4.5% come divorced (cf. Viii.2%)

1.8% come unemployed (cf. Threesome.4%) 4.8% come good-whale students concluded Sixteen years aged (cf. V.1%)

Ethnicity
92.3% come Whiten (cf. 92.3%) 1.4% come Irish (cf. One.3%) 4.2% come Indian or even British Indian (cf. Two.1%) 1.0% come More Asian or even More British Asian (cf. Ii.5%) 0.4% come Black or even Black British (cf. Two.1%) 0.8% come Chinese or even of a second race (cf. Cypher.9%) 1.3% refused to categorise themselves or even come of mixed race (cf. Single.3%)

Religion
71.1% come Christian (cf. 71.8%) 3.3% come Jewish (cf. Cypher.5%) 3.2% come Hindu (cf. Single.1%) 1.3% come Muslim (cf. Trio.0%) 0.9% come of an additional religion (cf. Single.1%) 13.7% come of there is no religion (cf. Xiv.8%) 6.5% refused to categorise themselves (cf. Heptad.7%)

A effects of a Nose count emphasised the richness of the town:

37.6% of residents keep close at hand degrees or even the better training qualification (cf. Xix.8%) 88.3% of homes come owned per occupier (cf. 68.9%) 56.82% of house have 2 or further cars (cf. Twenty-nine.4%) The typical total of rooms by the home is Seven.Nought (cf. Cinque.Triplet)

Transport

A town has grown remarkably it used to be that 70 years, thanks primarily to the extension of the Metropolitan line of the London Underground. Junction 18 of the M25 motorway, with a A404, is around Chorleywood.

Chorleywood station is in Zone B on the Metropolitan line, placed between Chalfont and Latimer and Rickmansworth. the majority of trains passing across Chorleywood come operated by London Underground, however a station is likewise a prevent for Chiltern Railways services running between Marylebone and Aylesbury stations.