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Rightmove plc is a British company which runs rightmove.co.uk, the UK's largest online real estate property portal. [3] Rightmove is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index .
Berkhamsted (/ ˈ b ɜːr k əm s t ɛ d / BUR-kəm-sted) is a historic market town in Hertfordshire, England, in the Bulbourne valley, 26 miles (42 km) north-west of London. [2] [3] The town is a civil parish with a town council within the borough of Dacorum which is based in the neighbouring large new town of Hemel Hempstead. [4]
The house was designed by George Hubbard and built by H and J Matthews between 1906 and 1908 for Sir John Evans. [1] [2] Evans was a well known archaeologist and geologist who became President of the Geological Society of London. [3]
From 1936 until 1972 Northchurch and Berkhamsted were united under Berkhamsted Urban District Council. Northchurch today, however, is recognised as a separate village with its own Parish Council. St Mary's churchyard contains the grave of Peter the Wild Boy , a German feral child adopted at the court of King George I and II.
Ashlyns Hall in the estate grounds. Ashlyns Hall, is a modestly sized villa from the early Regency.It has two storeys and the exterior is covered in stucco.On the south-western side, the house features a semi-circular bowed front with a first-floor verandah of wrought iron overlooking ornamental gardens.
The turbulent events of the English Civil War came to Berkhamsted Place in the 1640s when the Murrays' daughter, Ann Murray, became in a Royalist plot to protect the life of the King's second surviving son, the young Duke of York (who was later to become King James II of England, from the Parliamentarian forces. King Charles was executed in ...
Harpenden and Berkhamsted is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] It was established by the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies and was first contested at the 2024 general election. [3] It is represented by Victoria Collins of the Liberal Democrats.
Dean Incent's House is a 15th-century timber-framed house in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. It is reputed to be the birthplace of John Incent (c. 1480 – 1545), a dean in the Church of England who held office at St Paul's Cathedral from 1540 to 1545. The two-storey house is situated on Berkhamsted High Street.