Croxley Green

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Croxley Green is a village of approximately 5000 dwellings and 12000 residents located between Watford (to the north-east) and Rickmansworth (to the south-west) in Hertfordshire, England.

Croxley is about 20 miles outside of London, and has a connection into the city on the Metropolitan Line (a 40 minute journey on a good day).

Croxley Green, as suggested by the name, has a large village green which is surrounded by some of its oldest buildings (17th Century). There is extensive building from the 19th Century centred around New Road (ironically, one of the oldest roads in the village), plus a good deal of housing stock from the 1930s, built at the time of the Metropolitan Line branch. The Green houses the "Revels on The Green", an annual village fair which includes a traditional maypole dance, as illustrated on the road signs on entering the village. The annual Mummer folk play "St. George & The Dragon" is played out during the Christmas period at a number of village hostelries.

Croxley's biggest claim to fame is the writing paper Croxley Script, which used to be produced in the village by the paper maker John Dickinson. Although Dickinson's left many years ago (to nearby Apsley, Hemel Hempstead), the legacy lives on in street names (Dickinson Square, Dickinson Avenue, Barton Way and others) some of which contain housing built by the company for mill workers at the end of the 19th Century and others named after Mill owners and management etc..

Croxley Green has an active Residents Association and Parish Council and is also the home of an array of local organisations dedicated to pastimes and leisure. The Croxley Green Society run the "Revels" and there are varying clubs including the Camera, Needlecrafters, Wine, Vineyard, Bicycle, Jazz, and Folk to mention the first few.

Croxley Green also had another famous resident, after her flight from France, Madame Tussaud lived there. There is a road named after her in a new housing development off New Road, near where she used to live.

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