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

Carolyn Englert, a resident of the USA came across this little statue, labelled “Billiken”, in her grandmother’s china collection. The Billiken was first produced in