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Croxley Green Chronicle
  • 1166 Crokesleya - The first inhabitant to have his name recorded for posterity was one Richard de Croxley who was a Knight of St. Albans [Link 1]
  • 1209 24th June, Agreement in the form of a cirograph, between Nicholas son of Geoffrey and Robert of Croxley, by which Nicholas granted to Robert, his heirs or assigns, his office of summoner in the abbey, with a monastic corrody and all appurtenances, besides the land pertaining to that office, for twelve years, in return for £2. 10s. 
  • 1218 / 1220 Walter de Waunci, Robert de Amewill, and John de Seleford each gave 2s. 3d. quit-rent from one-third of the mill. Isabel Croxley gave a rent of 3s. in the same place for the nuns' kitchen. The mill was probably lost after a time to St. Albans Abbey.
  • 1248 Ralph Pyrot recorded as a farmer that later would be Parrott's Farm
  • 1310 Thomas de Bovingdene, a Cellarer of the Abbey, Lord of the Manor until 1313.
  • ​1396 and between 1401, Abbot John Moote paid 100 marks (about £66) for making a very large barn and other buildings at Croxley.
  • 1557  John Caius purchased Croxley Green from the Crown [Link 1] On the Feast of the Annunciation, Dr. Caius rededicated and consecrated the college to the honour of the Annunciation aforesaid, to which it was formerly dedicated by Gonville and Bateman, and endowed it (besides plate, money, books, and other things, which now and soon after he gave to it) with the manor of Croxley in Hertfordshire, then 23l. 1s. 7d. ob. per annum, formerly parcel of the abbey of St. Alban's.
  • 1618 Gonville and Caius had let the Manor to a single tenant who then let parts to others, but from 1618 on the College let directly to various separate tenants.
  • 1670 John Fotherley rented the Manor of Croxley from Gonville & Caius
  • 1829  John Dickinson formally opens Mill [Link 1]    [Link 2]
  • 1830 John Dickinson Mill production starts [Link 1]
  • 1868 Methodist Church – New Road opens [Link 1]
  • 1870 September 27th Foundation Stone to All Saints Church laid [Link 1]
  • 1872  June 25th All Saints Church consecrated [Link 1] [Link 2]
  • 1872 Parts of the parish of Watford were assigned to Croxley Green
  • 1873 First school built with Miss Clark as Governess.  [Link 1]
  • 1875 January Croxley Green’s first school opens Garden Road / Yorke Road [Link 1]
  • 1887  Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee ( 50 years on throne) Croxley Mills enlarged and more houses are built [Link 1]
  • 1888 March saw the opening of the Coop Store in New Road [Link1]
  • 1894  A school for older boys 7+ opens in the Watford Road [Link 1]
  • 1895 Foundation of the Dickinson Institute (Guildhouse) which becomes meeting place for the village clubs [Link 1]
  • 1896 November 5th The Dickinson Institute opens in New Road [Link 1]
  • 1897 Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee (60 years)Tree planted near Church
  • 1901 22nd January Queen Victoria Dies [Link 1]
  • 1902 Coronation of Edward VII [Link 1]
  • 1903 Women’s Social and Political Union (Suffragettes) [Link 1]
  • 1907 All Saints Church is extended [Link 1]
  • 1908 Robert Baden-Powell starts Scouting Movement for boys
  • 1909 Croxley Green begins a Scout Group
  • 1911 George V Coronation Celebrations [Link 1]
  • 1912 Croxley Green Station opens London & North Western Region opens [Link 1]
  • 1913 March 9th Suffragettes cause damage to Croxley Green Station [Link 1]
  • 1914 Outbreak of World War 1
  • 1918 Peace is declared
  • 1919 Memorial oak planted on The Green
  • 1925 District Surveyor Albert Freeman was working on plans for a new North Orbital Road [Link 1] [Diaries]
  • 1925 2nd November Croxley Green Metropolitan Railway Station opens [Link 1]
  • 1926 The Institute becomes The Guildhall
  • 1930 Miss Stanford, Headmistress, Girls School sadly passed away [Link 1]
  • 1935 Croxley Green celebrates Jubilee of King George V. The 5th Oak is planted by George Ricketts Croxley Greens own centenarian [Link 1]
  • 1936 Death of King George V, Edward VIII succeeds to the throne and abdicates uncrowned. The sixth tree is planted on The Green but fails to survive.
  • 1937 Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth May 12th Croxley Green celebrates the occasion with a procession and festivities on The Green. The 7th oak tree is planted on The Green [Link 1] 
  • ​1939 / 1942 World War 2 Timeline of Croxley Green and the World [Link 1]
  • 1939 Sept World War 2 is declared
  • 1939 Hundreds of school children evacuated from London to Croxley Green
  • 1939 Durrant's School opens [Link 1]
  • 1939 Harvey Road Schools opens [Link 1]
  • 1940 25th September Two parachute mines dropped. All Saints Church and Church Hall were extensively damaged [Link 1]
  • 1945 World War 2 ends
  • 1949 Friday 6th May - Malvern Way School and Little Green School are officially opened by George Tomlinson MP [Link 1] [Link 2]
  • 1949 23rd May Metropolitan station renamed "Croxley" [Link 1]
  • 1951 Festival of Britain [Link 1]
  • 1953 18th January. All Saint’s church is rededicated [Link 1]
  • 1954 September, Rickmansworth School takes its first intake of children [Link 1]
  • 1971 16th December Proteus the all-black South African rugby team play their first tour game in Croxley Green [Link 1]
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