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Atria Watford is a shopping centre in the middle of Watford, Hertfordshire, England. It opened in June 1992 as the Harlequin Shopping Centre . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The centre was rebranded as intu Watford in 2013 following the renaming of its parent Capital Shopping Centres Group as Intu Properties . [ 4 ]
Watford (/ ˈ w ɒ t f ər d / ⓘ) is a town and non-metropolitan district with borough status in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Central London, on the banks of the River Colne.
Watford was the estate's parish in all forms of local geography from 1086 until 1878. [1] A similar minority is in the ecclesiastical parish of Watford (St Luke), although most of the land and all of the mansion has been in Langleybury ecclesiastically since 1878, when that parish was founded. [2] [3] Secularly the mansion is in Sarratt civil ...
In the early 20th century Watford Urban District Council operated from municipal offices at Upton House in The Parade. [2] The council sought a proper town hall after it achieved municipal borough status in 1922. [3] The site proposed for the new building in Rickmansworth Road had previously been occupied by an old mansion known as "The Elms". [2]
The National China Garden Foundation planned to raise $30 million to fund the operating and upkeep costs of the garden. [1] The Washington Post wrote that the "idea of a gold-plated Chinese garden with all the stylistic bells and whistles seems hard to reconcile with the [United States National Arboretum's] relentless funding issues". The ...
Watford's first elected council was a local board established in 1850, prior to which the town had been administered by the parish vestries. [4] Such local boards were converted into urban district councils in 1894. Watford Urban District was granted borough status in 1922, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor. [5]
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Vicarage Road is a stadium in Watford, England, and is the home stadium of Championship club Watford. An all-seater stadium, its current capacity is 22,220. An all-seater stadium, its current capacity is 22,220.