IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Swangleys Lane, KNEBWORTH, SG3 6QX
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Swangleys Lane, SG3 6QX by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (17 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Chimney by Swangley's Lane
These can be for drying grain
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 7 Sep 2017
0.01 miles
2
Swangley's Farm
There is more of this farm to see from other angles. But it looks like lots of other farms.
Image: © Robin Hall
Taken: 29 Dec 2005
0.03 miles
3
Derelict building - windmill?
It says "Danger unsafe keep out. OK then. I would guess that this was a windmill but then again........
Update (Jan 2019) We have heard from a relative of the farmer who built this and have been informed that it was built to store maize silage in around 1900-1903 but only used until about 1914 because it proved impractical.
Image: © Robin Hall
Taken: 29 Dec 2005
0.03 miles
4
Knebworth: Swangley's Farm former silo
This is an unusual early 20th century brick silo, cylindrical in plan, but now ruinous, on the opposite side of the road to the farm. Early Ordnance Survey maps available on line show that it was not present in 1899 but was in 1923.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 29 Nov 2009
0.03 miles
5
Knebworth telephone exchange
With a modern extension on the back.
Image: © Robin Hall
Taken: 29 Dec 2005
0.21 miles
6
Knebworth: Haygarth
Haygarth is a development of about 70 maisonettes and flats built around 1970 in the grounds of two large former Victorian houses known as Pelham Lodge and Warwick Lodge on London Road. Access to the upper residential properties is unusually via an open metal staircase, some of which are visible in the photo.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 29 Nov 2009
0.22 miles
7
Knebworth: Former St Albans Boys' Home
Completed in 1914 in the neo-Georgian style favoured for institutional buildings at the time and largely unchanged since, the former Boys' Home is in London Road. It is locally listed by virtue of its relevance to the social history of Knebworth, and some original architectural detail such as its symmetry, narrow sash windows and the main entrance with its hipped roof and projecting brick quoins. It is interesting to consider that such a large dedicated building would have been deemed necessary as late as 1914. It is currently in use as the Stepping Stone Pre-School nursery.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 29 Nov 2009
0.22 miles
8
Knebworth Primary & Nursery School
Take away the flat-roofed extensions at the front and the remaining three gable-ended buildings represent the basic fabric of the school as it was opened in 1912. The central section has an attractive bell tower. The school was built primarily to serve the large increase in population in "new" Knebworth following the opening of the railway station built to serve "old" Knebworth in 1884.
The photo was taken at the end of a wet November Sunday afternoon that was just about to get an awful lot wetter...
The School's website is here http://www.knebworth.herts.sch.uk/
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 29 Nov 2009
0.23 miles
