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Eastbury, Hertfordshire
Eastbury is a settlement in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire, adjacent to the Greater London suburb of Northwood in Hillingdon. Other settlements nearby include Moor Park and South Oxhey, and Eastbury is about equal distance between the Northwood and Moor Park tube stations (Metropolitan line). Northwood Headquarters is in Eastbury. The post town is Northwood. It is in the Three Rivers Ward of Moor Park and Eastbury, and since 1 April 2017, the civil parish of Batchworth. Eastbury is served by Eastbury Farm JMI School. This was rated in 2007 as ''Outstanding'' by Ofsted and is one of the top 1% primary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...s in England. References Hamlets in Hertfordshire Three Rivers District {{hertfordshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batchworth
Batchworth was once a hamlet and is now a civil parish and part of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. The parish of Batchworth was created on 1 April 2017 consisting of two Three Rivers District Council wards: Rickmansworth Town, and Moor Park and Eastbury. The first election to Batchworth Parish Council was on 4 May 2017. There are eight councillors; four in each ward. The Grand Union Canal passes through Batchworth. The Batchworth Canal Centre is alongside the Grand Union lock, near the junction of the A404 and A4145 roads. This is the home of the Rickmansworth Waterways Trust who run a visitors centre, a working heritage boat, a small outdoor cafe and co-ordination of the annual Rickmansworth Canal Festival. The future of the historic cotton mill is uncertain following its need of urgent repairs. Batchworth Sea Scouts have their headquarters alongside the canal. The Batchworth Dragons dragon boat club were born out of the scout group and competes at a national and internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwood Headquarters
Northwood Headquarters is a military headquarters facility of the British Armed Forces in Eastbury, Hertfordshire, England, adjacent to the London suburb of Northwood. It is home to the following military command and control functions: #Headquarters, Strategic Command, formerly Joint Forces Command #Permanent Joint Headquarters # Commander Operations for the Royal Navy #NATO Allied Maritime Command History The headquarters is on the grounds of Eastbury Park. In 1938 the Royal Air Force took over the site for the use of RAF Coastal Command which made use of the Eastbury house and also created a network of underground bunkers and operations blocks. The house was used as an Officers' Mess though it was subsequently damaged by fire. In 1953 the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, gained an additional NATO responsibility as Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Atlantic, as part of SACLANT, and the Eastern Atlantic NATO military command structure was established at the Northwood Headquart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primary School
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age). Primary schooling follows preschool and precedes secondary schooling. The International Standard Classification of Education considers primary education as a single phase where programmes are typically designed to provide fundamental skills in reading, writing, and mathematics and to establish a solid foundation for learning. This is International Standard Classification of Education#Level 1, ISCED Level 1: Primary education or first stage of basic education.Annex III in the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Office For Standards In Education
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial government department, non-ministerial department of Government of the United Kingdom, His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament. Ofsted's role is to make sure that organisations providing education, training and childcare services in England do so to a high standard for children and students. Ofsted is responsible for inspecting a range of educational institutions, including state schools and some independent schools. It also inspects childcare, adoption and fostering agencies and initial teacher training, and regulates early years childcare facilities and children's social care services. The chief inspector ("HMCI") is appointed by an Order in Council and thus becomes an office holder under the Crown. Martyn Oliver, Sir Martyn Oliver has been HMCI ; the chair of Ofsted has been Christine Ryan: her #Chair of Ofsted, predecessors include J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastbury Farm JMI School
This page provides brief details of primary schools in the borough of Three Rivers in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. All the state-funded primary schools in Three Rivers are co-educational. There are four Roman Catholic schools and five Church of England schools in the area, all of which are voluntary aided schools except for Sarratt Church of England School, which is voluntary controlled. The remaining schools are all non-faith community schools. The Local Education Authority is Hertfordshire County Council. There are still some linked pairs of infant schools and junior schools, with the infant school covering Reception and Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) and the junior school covering Key Stage 2 (Years 3 to 6). However most have been amalgamated in a single Junior Mixed Infant (JMI) school or (equivalently) primary school. West: Rickmansworth, Chorleywood and environs Rickmansworth Charity School was established in 1711. The charity grew with a number of bequests, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, which for centuries were the principal unit of secular and religious administration in most of England and Wales. Civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. Civil parishes in their modern form came into being through the Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which established elected parish councils to take on the secular functions of the parish vestry. A civil parish can range in size from a sparsely populated rural area with fewer than a hundred inhabitants, to a large town with a population in excess of 100,000. This scope is similar to that of municipalities in continental Europe, such as the communes of France. However, unlike their continental Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moor Park And Eastbury
Moor Park and Eastbury is a Wards of the United Kingdom, ward in Three Rivers (district), Three Rivers, in England. It is located in south-west Hertfordshire, in the East of England Regions of England, region. The ward includes the eponymous twin settlements of Moor Park, Hertfordshire, Moor Park and Eastbury, Hertfordshire, Eastbury, lying between Rickmansworth to the west, Croxley Green to the north, South Oxhey to the east, and Northwood, London, Northwood to the south. As one of the more populous wards in the district, with an electorate of 4,611, rising to 5,532 at the 2011 Census, the ward elects three members to Three Rivers District Council. It is represented by three Conservative Party (UK), Conservative councillors: Debbie Morris, Reena Ranger and Joanna Clemens. For elections to Hertfordshire County Council, part of Moor Park and Eastbury is in the Rickmansworth East and Oxhey Park division, represented by Reena Ranger, a Conservative; the remainder is in the South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post Town
A post town is a required part of all postal addresses in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Ireland, and a basic unit of the postal delivery system.Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) Including the correct post town in the address increases the chance of a letter or parcel being delivered on time. Post towns in general originated as the location of delivery offices. , their main function is to distinguish between localities or street names in addresses not including a Postcodes in the United Kingdom, postcode. Organisation There are approximately 1,500 post towns which are organised by Royal Mail subject to its policy only to impose changes where it has a proven, economic and practical benefit to the organisation, covering its own cost. Each post town usually corresponds to one or more UK postcodes, postal districts (the "outward" part of the postcode, before the space); therefore, each post town can cover an area comprising many towns, urban districts an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Line
The Metropolitan line, colloquially known as the Met, is a London Underground line between in the City of London and and in Buckinghamshire, with branches to in Hertfordshire and in London Borough of Hillingdon, Hillingdon. Printed in magenta on the tube map, the line is in length and serves 34 stations (13 of which are step free to platform). Between Aldgate and , the track is mostly in shallow "cut and cover" tunnels, apart from short sections at and Farringdon stations. The rest of the line is above ground, with a loading gauge of a similar size to those on main lines. Just under passenger journeys were made on the line in 2019. This line is one of just two Underground lines to cross the Greater London boundary and proceed outwards into the Home counties, Home Counties, the other being the Central line (London Underground), Central line. It is the only Underground line with an express service at peak times; the resulting longer distance between stations means trains c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Rivers (district)
Three Rivers is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in south-west Hertfordshire, England. Its council is based in Rickmansworth. The district borders Hertsmere, Watford, St Albans City and District, St Albans, Dacorum, Buckinghamshire Council, Buckinghamshire, and the London boroughs of London Borough of Hillingdon, Hillingdon and London Borough of Harrow, Harrow. History Three Rivers District was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering the whole area of two former districts and most of a third, which were all abolished at the same time: *Chorleywood Urban district (England and Wales), Urban District *Rickmansworth Urban District *Watford Rural District, except the parish of Aldenham, which went to Hertsmere, and the part within the designated area of Hemel Hempstead New Towns in the United Kingdom, New Town, which went to Dacorum. The new district was named "Three Rivers", referencing the rivers River Chess, Chess, River Colne, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Oxhey
South Oxhey is an estate in the Watford Rural parish of the Three Rivers (district), Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire, England. It is located in the south western corner of Hertfordshire and close to the boundary with Greater London. At the 2011 Census South Oxhey's population was included in the Northwick Ward of Three Rivers Council. History South Oxhey is a large Housing estate#Britain and Ireland, estate built on land that was formerly part of the Oxhey Hall Estate. There was a manor house here, Oxhey Place, and a chapel. The manor house was owned by the Blackwell family of Crosse and Blackwell fame. It burnt down in 1960. Oxhey Chapel dates from 1612 and is still standing to the south of the parish church of All Saints. The church was opened in 1954 to serve the new estate built after the Second World War by the London County Council. The church was demolished and rebuilt in 2000. Since the introduction of the nationwide Right to buy scheme, Right to buy policy in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moor Park, Hertfordshire
Moor Park is an affluent private residential estate in the Three Rivers District of Hertfordshire, England. It is amongst the most prestigious and sought-after addresses on the outskirts of London and is recognised as one of the five established millionaire neighbourhoods in Hertfordshire. It is located approximately northwest of central London and adjacent to the Greater London boundary. History Moor Park takes its name from Moor Park, a country house which was originally built in 1678–9 for James, Duke of Monmouth, and was reconstructed in the Palladian style circa 1720 by Giacomo Leoni. It is built on what used to be an area of Ruislip Moor, which is where the name Moor Park originates. The house and grounds are now occupied by Moor Park Golf Club. Moor Park Golf Club has two championship golf courses designed by Harry Colt. Moor Park was located in the ancient parish of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, on the boundary with the parish of Ruislip, Middlesex. It is now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
