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St Albans has many old coaching inns (pictured: The White Hart, Hollywell Hill) Before the 20th century, St Albans was a rural market town, a Christian pilgrimage site, and the first coaching stop of the route to and from London, accounting for its numerous old inns. Victorian St Albans was small and had little industry.
White Hart Road is the name given to a section of hill land road enclosed from common land in the parish of Caerhun high above the village of Rowen, in the Conwy Valley. It was planned as a new part of the Royal Mail coach road from Llanbedr y Cennin to Abergwyngregyn before the A55 coast road was built linking Chester to Holyhead around ...
The Peahen from Holywell Hill. There has been an inn on the site since the fifteenth century. The original half-timbered building served as one of a number of coaching inns on Holywell Hill which runs into St Albans from the south. [3] From the late 1600s, St Albans was a major stop for coaches heading north from London through Barnet. This ...
He hired a room at the White Hart Inn on Holywell Hill. In 1847, plans were made to build a church in the city by Alexander Raphael. He commissioned Charles Parker to design the church, who also designed St Raphael's Church, Surbiton and was a pupil of Jeffry Wyatville.
Holywell House was a house in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. The manor house was originally called Hallywell (the later known spelling, Holywell, is probably a corruption of this original spelling).
The White Hart 23 Holywell Hill, St Albans: Inn: 17th century: 8 May 1950 1347142: The White Hart. More images. 13 Fishpool Street ...
Great House at Sonning, formerly the White Hart, in Sonning, Berkshire, in England; White Hart Inn Archaeological Site, in New South Wales, Australia; White Hart, Bishopsgate, in London, England
Saint Alban, a Romano-British soldier, took the place of a Christian priest and was beheaded on Holywell Hill. His martyr's cross of a yellow saltire on a blue field is reflected in the flag and coat of arms of Hertfordshire as the yellow field to the stag or Hart representing the county. He is the Patron Saint of Hertfordshire.