Newgate Street is a village near Cuffley, in Hatfield civil parish, in the Welwyn Hatfield district of

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, England. It is approximately six miles south-west of

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and has a population of 400. At the 2011 Census the population was included in the town of Hatfield. The village has an

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church, a school (Ponsbourne

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's), a restaurant (The Gables), two

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s (The Crown and The Coach and Horses) and a

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(Ponsbourne Park Hotel). There is also a small town hall and two outdoor tennis courts. The Coach and Horses, Newgate Street Village - geograph

Originally in the Manor of Tolmers, the present

Tolmers Park Tolmers Park is a manor house in Newgate Street Village near Hatfield in Hertfordshire, England. Early history The early history of the manor is obscure, but in a register of lands belonging to the Bishop of Ely compiled in 1277, a certain Walt ...

House dates from 1761. Since World War I it has been used as a military hospital, a girls' boarding school, a geriatric hospital and has now been converted to luxury apartments. Part of the estate became

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in 1940. The house lies just to the South-West of the village.

External links

Newgate Street (A Guide to Old Hertfordshire)
Villages in Hertfordshire {{Hertfordshire-geo-stub