OS grid reference TQ119934 Country England Post town WATFORD Local time Saturday 7:52 PM Dialling code 020 | Region East Sovereign state United Kingdom Shire county Hertfordshire District Three Rivers District UK parliament constituency Watford | |
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Population 4,861 (2011 Census. Ward) Weather 7°C, Wind SW at 14 km/h, 87% Humidity | ||
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Carpenders Park is a suburb of Watford in the Watford Rural parish of the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire, England. It is located in the south western corner of Hertfordshire and close to the boundary with Greater London. It is bounded to the West by a railway line that separates it from South Oxhey, to the East by the A4008 Watford to Harrow Road (Oxhey Lane), to the South by the B4542 (Little Oxhey Lane), Green Belt and the boundary with the London Borough of Harrow and to the North by woodland (Margeholes Wood and Sherwood Wood).
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History
Carpenders Park was originally an estate based around a manor house of the same name. This was later a girls school, Highfields, which was demolished in 1960 to make way for USAF married quarters. These were in turn demolished in 1997/98. The base was also known as Highfields.
The houses and bungalows of Carpenders Park were originally built in the 1930s. There was subsequent development in the 1950s including some council housing built for the Watford Rural District Council. The vast majority of the dwellings, though, are privately owned.
The estate was significantly enlarged in the late 1960s. Many of these later houses have flat roofs and the area gained some notoriety as Plummers Park, the setting for Leslie Thomas' Tropic of Ruislip, which had wife swapping as one of its themes.
The ventriloquist Roger DeCourcey also lived on the estate in the 1970s.
The estate is also home to celebrity actor Christopher Pulford, who was a regular on ITV television programme "The Bill", starring as Liam Bryant for a short stint, as well as making appearances on sponsorship advertisements for The X Factor, Persil and Frey Bentos pies. He currently resides in Compton Place with his family.
Local facilities
Other facilities may be found in South Oxhey.
Carpenders Park Cemetery
Carpenders Park Lawn Cemetery is owned and operated by the London Borough of Brent. It was opened in 1954.
The Hartsbourne stream meanders through fourteen acres of mature woodland - the key feature of the cemetery - and there is a small lake.
Brent has provided an area in the cemetery for the Muslim community since 1980.
The cemetery is a lawn type cemetery which means there are no upright memorials allowed, only approved bronze resin plaques set into the ground.