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An ancient town, a busy and prosperous centre with shops and interesting buildings, and where the long narrow High Street leads down to the River Colne.
In Church Road is the Victorian Salter’s Company Almshouses, a long line of houses of red-brick Tudor in style. Around the buildings are some fine cedar trees and the gate to the street are of ornate iron.
Cassiobury Park offers 190 acres of open space and woodland, and trips along the Grand Union Canal.
The Church of St Mary is mostly 13th century with later additions of the 15th century. It is long, low and broad, made of flint with a large tower which has diagonal buttresses, a stair-turret and a spike. In the chancel is a beautiful double piscina.
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- Landmark