http://www.lowewood.com Your guide to local history, news and events in the Borough of Broxbourne Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:00:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/the-queens-head http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/the-queens-head#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:35:25 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=303 By the mid-eighteenth century when stage-coaches were running regularly, the trade of the wayside taverns in Wormley must have been one of the principal industries of the village. From the Court Rolls of the manor we find that from 1742 the Manorial Courts were held at the Queen’s Head, which formed part of the Wormley Bury [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/the-queens-head/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/news/hoddesdon-news http://www.lowewood.com/news/hoddesdon-news#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:21:51 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=768 http://www.lowewood.com/news/hoddesdon-news/feed 1 http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/old-peoples-flats http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/old-peoples-flats#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:39:55 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=309 New address for 76-year-old Mrs. R.E. Smith, from July 28th, 1964 was 60 Westlea Road, Wormley. She was the first to move in to the Hoddesdon U.D.C. old people’s flats which were designed by local architect, John Snelgrove, A.R.I.B.A. There are eight flats in all, four ground floor and four first floor-all with one bedroom. The [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/old-peoples-flats/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/wormleybury http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/wormleybury#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:37:25 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=306 The present building, which is a typical example of the country house architecture of the eighteenth century, is not the first house here. The earliest record we have of one is that, about the year 1500, a Dr. Edward Sharnbrook, D.D., Prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral, who was then Rector of Wormley, built a house [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/wormleybury/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/the-old-manor-house http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/the-old-manor-house#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:32:24 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=299 The oldest surviving building on the High Road in Wormley, is the old Manor House, which dates from the late *16th and early 17th centuries. It probably stands on the site of the house occupied by the farmer of the manor lands before Wormleybury was built and its correct name should be the Manor Farm. [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/the-old-manor-house/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/the-manor-of-wormley http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/the-manor-of-wormley#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:30:17 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=296 The manor of Wormley was granted by Harold, later King of England, to the college of Canons he had founded at Waltham in 1060. This grant was confirmed by Edward the Confessor. From the Domesday Survey we learn that Wormley was taxed as five hides (about 700 acres) and that there were live villeins, four [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/the-manor-of-wormley/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/st-laurences-church http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/st-laurences-church#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:27:56 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=293 There is little doubt that a church – probably one built of wood existed in Saxon times, of which no trace can now be found. During the first half of the twelve century, this somewhat temporary building was replaced by one of more solid construction. Of this, the north wall of the nave, including a [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/st-laurences-church/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/the-globe-at-wormley http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/the-globe-at-wormley#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:25:35 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=289 Constant references are found in the Manorial Rolls and in the Minutes of the Turnpike Trust to the Globe. The earliest known reference to a inn called the Globe is in 1636, when John Taylor mentions it in his popularly known as “Taverns in Ten Shire”. In 1839 the landlord’s name was William Wiseman, who [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/wormley/the-globe-at-wormley/feed 0