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Dancers Hill is located in
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, England, immediately south of the route of the
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. It was formerly in the historic county of Middlesex. The disputed manor of Mandeville was said to lie on the hill and to be part of the manor of South Mimms.South Mimms: Manors.
British History Online. Retrieved 30 December 2018. It is now best known for the grade II listed
Dancers Hill House Dancers Hill House is a Grade II listed house in Dancers Hill, Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to th ...
() and for Dancers Hill Road which runs between St Albans Road in the west and Ganwick Corner in the west via
Bentley Heath Bentley Heath is a village in the West Midlands Borough of Solihull, England, approximately 3 miles southeast of Solihull town centre. The population taken at the 2011 census can be found under the Local Authority. Location Bentley Heath is t ...
. The road is joined by Baker Street on its north side and Kitts End Road on its south side. Dancers Lane runs north from Dancers Hill Road past Dancers Hill House before joining Wash Lane. Dancers Hill Farmhouse, in Dancers Lane, is also
grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
as are the Green Dragon public house () in St Albans Road and the nearby bridge over the
Mimmshall Brook Mimmshall Brook is a long stream (brook) in Greater London and Hertfordshire, England. Rising from two sources—one in Hertsmere, Hertfordshire, and the other in Arkley, London Borough of Barnet—the brook drains into a catchment area of ...
. Just to the southwest of Dancers Hill is Dyrham Park, with its Grade II listed mansion.


References


Further reading

* "Dancers Hill and the Manor of Mandeville", ''Barnet and District Local History Society Bulletin'', Vol. XVII (Nov. 1973).


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