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Areas of Archaeological Significance

Area 1 Cheshunt Park Farm, approx. centred on TL 3455 0475 Evidence from the remains of Roman buildings excavated at Cheshunt Park Farm in the 1950s and 60s, and numerous widespread finds of Roman pottery, coins and building materials from within the designated area suggest that the remains of a substantial Roman settlement lie along Ermine Street, which runs through the area. Area 2 Perriors Manor/Factory... 

Wormleybury

The north-east view of Wormleybury early in the 19th century 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 here. This apparently...