Your village needs you at our bulb planting extravaganza!

The parade beds continue to flourish, with our purple asters and geraniums struggling through the recent heat wave and now deluges!  Our Abelias are also establishing themselves showing us their delicate flowers. However, the weeds are also flourishing. In order to...

Rickmansworth Fire Station Open Day

Rickmansworth Fire Station is hosting an open day on Saturday 23rd September, with demonstrations, stalls and activities for children. The first hour from 12-1pm is designated a ‘Quiet Hour’ for those with Neuro Diverse needs and tickets for this period...

From cinema organist to celebrated composer

Back in 1931 Florence Price was a single mother who made ends meet by playing cinema and church organs and writing songs for radio commercials. But today she is celebrated as the first African-American woman to have her music performed by a major symphony orchestra....

Events at Chiltern Open Air Museum

Check out the events calendar to see what’s happening at Chiltern Open Air Museum for the rest of the year including the Harvest Festival on 30th September & 1st October. And this year COAM’s Halloween Spectacular event returns on 27th October. Bring...

Lady Ela’s Summer House Museum Exhibition 2023

FRIENDS OF CHORLEYWOOD HOUSE ESTATE PRESENT LADY ELA’S SUMMER HOUSE MUSEUM EXHIBITION 2023 Opening hours 12am to 4pm August Bank Holiday 2023 –  Sunday 27th & Monday 28th August Discover the history, curiosities and memorabilia of the House, its residents,...

Village Day and our 2023 Community Champion

After a blustery rainy start, Village Day 2023 finally came alive at around 2:30 when the sun came out. The CRA stall was buzzing. Sadly, not to play our Underground Game, but to query, discuss, and rant about the Local Cycling Walking Infrastructure Plan (LCWIP). We...

PCSOs and PCs in the village

The first week in July was Antisocial Behaviour Awareness Week, ASB Awareness Week 2023. As part of this our local PCSO’s and PC’s spent two evenings in the village so they could introduce themselves to villagers and answer any concerns.  It was good to...

Damage to the parade flowerbeds

On Thursday a concerned resident alerted us that large groups of pupils had congregated in the village, resulting in lots of dropped litter and yet more destruction to our new flowerbeds. When they were approached and asked to pick up the litter at their feet and to...

The mystery of a memorial that never was?

By Fabian Hiscock, Three Rivers Museum There was a huge desire immediately after WW1 to commemorate the fallen, and almost every community had a war memorial of some sort. But not all the proposed designs were built, and the museum has been asked by the Arts...

The LCWIP consultation – Chorleywood had its say!

Our thanks to all who responded to the HCC / TRDC consultation on their LCWIP* proposals. We worked hard to get news of the consultation out; our call for a letter to every household was rejected on cost grounds. We thought it vital that everyone knew about the...