Little Gaddesden

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The church in Little Gaddesden

Little Gaddesden is a village in the English county of Hertfordshire .

location

The place is about five kilometers north of Berkhamsted . Nearby villages and hamlets include Ashridge Park , Aldbury, Great Gaddesden, Gaddesden Row, Frithsden, Nettleden, Potten End, Ivinghoe, Northchurch, Ringshall, Studham, Dudswell, Wigginton, Dagnall and Flamstead.

Worth seeing

Little Gaddesden and the surrounding area are known primarily as the location for numerous films and television productions. Here were, among others, Midsomer Murders , Lewis (TV series), Stardust (2007), Harry Potter , Cranford (TV series), Henry VIII. (TV series), The Dirty Dozen (1967), First Knight ( 1995) and shot parts of the Robin Hood film with Russell Crowe.

Other buildings worth seeing are:

  • Ashridge House by architect Sir James Wyattville together with the gardens and by Sir Humphrey Repton,
  • Manor House, John O'Gaddesden House and Marian House,
  • Little Gaddesden House and the Old Rectory.

people

This is where José Maria Blanco White and John of Gaddesden were born or lived .

literature

  • J. Leonhardt: A Century Remembered: The Millennium Book for Little Gaddesden, Ringshall, Hudnall and Ashridge , Rural Heritage Society, 2002, ISBN 0-9542174-0-3 .

Web links

Commons : Little Gaddesden  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0061578/locations
  2. http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0113071/locations
  3. The discovery of everyday life between the Enlightenment and Romanticism: Letters from Spain (1822) by José Maria Blanco White
  4. ^ Encyclopedia of Medical History

Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 27 ″  N , 0 ° 33 ′ 27 ″  W.