Frithsden is a small
hamlet
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in
Hertfordshire, England. It is located in the
Chiltern Hills, about two miles north of
Berkhamsted
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, to which it belongs. It is in the Dacorum Ward of Nettleden with Potten End.
The village name is derived from the wood ''le Fryth'' (
me. frith »wood«). It is first mentioned 1291 as ''Frithesdene'' (»valley of the wood«).
It is pronounced locally as 'Frizden'
West of the hamlet bordering to
Ashridge Park are the Frithsden Beeches, a wood left to nature, with large
beeches. Scenes for ''
Sleepy Hollow'', ''
Jonathan Creek
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'' and ''
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' have been filmed in this wood.
Frithsden, together with the neighbouring hamlets
Nettleden
Nettleden is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Nettleden with Potten End, in the Dacorum district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. It is in the Chiltern Hills, about four miles north-west of Hemel Hempstead, near L ...
and Potten End, is famous for its black cherries and the villagers hold in July their annual cherry fair. They also claim to have originated the
Cherry Bounce and the Cherry Turnover.
[ Doris Jones-Baker: ''The Folklore of Hertfordshire''; 1977. ] The village has also a winery, the Frithsden Vineyard.
References
External links
{{Commons category, Frithsden
''A Guide to Old Hertfordshire'' webpage for Frithsden
Hamlets in Hertfordshire
Dacorum