The following extracts are taken from the Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S   Secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and

Ware Penny Post On 27th July 1813 a proposal for the establishment of a local penny post from Ware to Wadesmill, Old Hall Green and

Mail from Puckeridge was normally sent by road to the post town of Ware for sorting and onward despatch. However, for a time in the

Wadesmill Turnpike Trust TABLE of TOLLS Payable at this GATE by Virtue of an Act of Parliament passed in the 2nd Year of the Reign

1598 travel book: Paul Hentzner’s Travels in England. Observed that beds in the inns in Puckeridge were made by waiters – the first place where

Puckeridge nestles in an area of natural beauty, 27 miles north of London, between the villages of Standon and Braughing both recorded in the Domesday

Lunardi Court Lunardi Court was named after a pioneering balloonist. Vincenzo Lunardi, born in Lucca, Italy, ended his first balloon flight in Standon Green End

In the 1950s Mr Sullivan was running The Grange as a Youth Hostel.  Whilst working on the building he found a bag of foreign money