Bullsland Hall, Bullsland Lane, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, WD3 5BQ

Location:  Bullsland Hall, Bullsland Lane, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, WD3 5BQ

Getting here:

• By car / parking: We are located to the southwest of Chorleywood, allowing easier access by car from Amersham and Rickmansworth.  Plentiful parking is available.  You may park on the forecourt or on the residential streets nearby (unrestricted).  A host of coffee shops in Chorleywood town centre are 5 minutes drive away.
• By tube: Chorleywood station is on the Metropolitan Line, 16 minutes from Chesham station, 10 minutes from Amersham station, 7 minutes from Chalfont & Latimer station, and 7 minutes from Rickmansworth station, 16 minutes from Northwood station (London), and 16 minutes from Pinner station (London).  We are a 4 minute drive from the station (taxi rank outside).  If tube commuting is your preferred option, please let us know, as we have an option for a location 6 minutes walk from Chorleywood station.

Some fun facts about the Location & Area

Bullsland Hall was built in 1961 by the Chorleywood Urban District Council, and renovated in 2006.

Chorleywood is a beautiful village a few miles northwest of Rickmansworth at the river Chess that was constituted in 1845 when it had 208 houses and a population of 939 (compare today at 11,000 residents). 

It is part of the Three Rivers district in south-west Hertfordshire (the three rivers being the Rivers Chess, Gade, and Colne). 

In 2004, Chorleywood was named as the 'happiest place to live in the UK' out of 32,482 communities surveyed by the Oxford Research Centre.

Settlement in this happy place dates back to the Paleolithic era when plentiful flint supply assisted tool development by early humans.  The Romans built a village complete with a mill and brewery.  The name Chorleywood derives from 'ceorla' meaning peasants and 'leah' meaning a clearing or wood.  By 1278 it was known as Churl's Wood, Norman for 'Peasant's Wood'.  In Anglo-Saxon England, Chorleywood was situated on the dividing line between the kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex (now Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire). 

Chorleywood appears to have a long history of creative entrepreneurism:  In 1663, after the passage of the Turnpike Act, Chorleywood residents leveraged the strategic position of the village to charge civilians to use the east-west road from Hatfield to Reading.  In the 1960s, the British Baking Industries Research Association in Chorleywood improved upon the American bread-making process, resulting in the Chorleywood bread process, which is now used in over 80% of commercial bread production throughout the UK!

There is also a fascinating connection to America.  William Penn (a Quaker) lived and married in Chorleywood, and then founded the Pennsylvania Colony in the USA with settlers from Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, and nearby towns in southern Buckinghamshire.

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