Dancers Hill

Village, existing until now

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MARCH
19
2016
Dancers Hill is a hamlet which has lent its name to a larger area of countryside which lies southeast of the A1/M25 junction.

To the east of Dancers Hill lies Wrotham Park, originally part of an estate known as Pinchbank. This ws first recorded in Middlesex in 1310 and owned in the 17th and early 18th centuries by the Howkins family, the property passed to Thomas Reynolds, a director of the South Sea Company, who renamed the estate Strangeways. His son, Francis, sold the property to Admiral John Byng who had the house rebuilt by Isaac Ware in 1754.

Admiral John Byng changed the name of the house to Wrotham Park in honour of the original family home in Wrotham, Kent.

The house was inherited by John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford in 1847 and passed to his son, George Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford, on the first earl’s death in 1860. A disastrous fire in 1883 burned slowly enough to permit retrieval of the contents of the house, but gutted it. The house was rebuilt exactly as it was and still remains in the hands of the Byng family.

West of the hamlet, lies Dyrham Park - a 200 acre estate with a classic Palladian Mansion at its heart. The estate is now a golf club.

At the junction with the St Albans Road lies the Green Dragon pub, dating from the 18th century.


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NEARBY STREETS
Dancers Lane, EN5 Dancers Lane is a road in the EN5 postcode area
Potter Bar Bypass, EN6 Potter Bar Bypass is a road in the EN6 postcode area (Dancers Hill)
Rose Cottages, EN5 A street within the EN5 postcode (Dancers Hill)
St Albans Road, EN5 St Albans Road runs out of Barnet towards the city of the same name


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