Lilley Hoo: the open common and its racing past
Lilley Hoo survived the 1768 enclosure as open common, hosted horse races for about a century and gave Telegraph Hill its name. Here is what the sources say.
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Walden, Offley & Lilleywalks, old churches, gardens and village history in the north Hertfordshire chalk hillsManors, enclosure, old roads and the records that explain why the villages look the way they do.
Lilley Hoo survived the 1768 enclosure as open common, hosted horse races for about a century and gave Telegraph Hill its name. Here is what the sources say.
Read the pieceKing's Walden's church stands by the Bury while the village lies along a road nearly a mile off. The parish records explain how that came about.
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