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4 unusual facts about Bushey


Garston Ladies FC

Garston Ladies FC is an FA Charter Standard football club for girls and women, based at the Metropolitan Police Sports Club in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

Immanuel College

Immanuel College, Bushey, an independent co-educational secondary school north of London

Jill Ellison

She was educated at St Margaret's School, Bushey and now heads the Nurse Directors Association (NDA/UK).

William Parkyns

By his wife Susanna, daughter and coheir of Thomas Blackwell of Bushey, Hertfordshire, whom he married at St. Mildred's, Bread Street, on 26 June 1673, Parkyns left a daughter.


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Communities outside the administrative area of Greater London that are within the code are Buckhurst Hill, Chigwell, Loughton and Sewardstone in Essex; Borehamwood, Bushey, Carpenders Park, Elstree and South Oxhey in Hertfordshire; and Ewell, Molesey, Thames Ditton and Whyteleafe in Surrey.

Aldenham Works

The London Transport site at Elstree had originally been bought for the Northern line extension to Bushey Heath, as part of the 1930s New Works Programme.

Bushey Museum

The Museum has a large collection (considered to be of national significance) of works, artefacts and ephemera relating to Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA and his famous School of Art in Bushey which, a century ago, was attracting students from all over the world.

Edgware, Highgate and London Railway

After the war, the introduction of London's Metropolitan Green Belt made the project to continue the line to Bushey unnecessary as the intended housing development proposed in the area was prevented by the new legislation.

Little Walter

Stephen King's novel Under the Dome (2009) features a character named Little Walter Bushey, based on Little Walter.

M16 motorway

The main alignment of the M16 would have continued south-west of the junction towards Radlett and Bushey.

Veolia Water Central

This may have been a contributing factor in the outbreak of Cryptosporidium parvum in the Bushey area in March 1997 when Three Valleys had to ask 300,000 consumers in Hertfordshire to boil water.

WD postcode area

One reason for this long-winded procedure was to ensure that Watford postal workers received London weighting payments, as Bushey was in the London Metropolitan Police area at the time.

William Snelling Hadaway

They moved to Bushey in 1902 or 3 where William studied with Hubert von Herkomer.


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