Answers to the High Sheriff’s Hertfordshire Christmas Quiz
1. Westmill. Hanging beside the tower door, is the gravestone of Sir Nicholas de Lewknor, Lord of Westmill, 1296
2. St Albans Abbey
3. A dragon
5. St Etheldreda’s Church, Hatfield (all members of the Cecil family)
6. The church is dedicated to St Hippolytus, the patron saint of horses. Before knights left for the crusades they would ride to St Ippollitts for a blessing.
7. Standon
8. St Mary, Hitchin
9. Church of the Holy Road, Watford
10. Bishops Stortford
11. Braughing 1562
12. Weston
13. Wheathampstead
14. St James, Stanstead Abbots
15. Iraq. A corruption of Baghdad, presumably reflecting the Middle Eastern interests of the Knights Templar who were given the area in the 1140s
16. Letchworth Garden City, built by Ebenezer Howard in 1903
17. Hertford
18. Royston
19. Edward I had a cross erected at every spot where his wife Eleanor’s coffin made an overnight stop on its way from near Lincoln, where she died, to London
20. St Albans
21. St Albans
22. In his palace in Royston
23. Nuthampstead
24. Much Hadham
25. Wadesmill
26. Walkern
27. Westmill
28. Abbots Langley, Nicholas Breakspear
29. Cottered, The Lordship
30. Anstey
31. Chipperfield
32. Hinxworth
33. Aldenham, near Watford
34. Sarratt
35. Henry Moore
36. Katherine Ferrers, an aristocratic 17th century highwaywoman who came from Markyate Cell
37. Christina, the 12th century hermitess known as The Lady of the Woods
38. King James I
39. Robert Clutterbuck
40. Queen Victoria
41. John Scott
42. Ellen Terry
43. Dr Thomas Dimsdale
44. Nell Gwynne
45. Sir Ralph Sadlier
46. Clement Atlee
47. Sir Richard (Dick) Wittington
48. The Bury, King’s Walden
49. Rye House near Stansted Abbots
50. Theobalds Park, Cheshunt
51. The Palace, Hatfield
52. Brocket Hall, Wheathampstead
53. The Grove
54. Berkhamsted
55. Hertford
56. Cassiobury Park
57. Knebworth
58. Ravensburgh Castle
59. Tring Park
60. Gun powder plot
61. Cromer windmill
62. Hemel Hempstead to Harpenden railway, opened in 1877 and closed in 1979
63. Birmingham
64. Fox and Hounds, Barley
65. They marked the City of London Corporation’s boundary, where a tax on coal and wine entering London could be levied
66. Hoddesdon
67. Unusual aircrafts
68. Drunks or other minor offenders would have cooled off here overnight in the 18th and 19th centuries
69. The Great Bed of Ware
70. He shot down the first German airship to be destroyed in Britain
71. The third Duke of Bridgewater, a pioneer of canals in Britain
72. The first manned balloon flight over England
73. Croxley Green
74. Watercress
75. The Luton hat trade
76. It won first prize at the International Pear Conference in Chiswick in 1885
77. Raw lime juice
78. Paper
79. Bricks
80. Silk worm farming
81. Braughing
82. Queen Boudica
83. Watling Street
84. Under the A1(M) near Welwyn
85. Devil’s Dyke
86. Market
87. Burh is Anglo Saxon meaning a defended town
88. Puddingstone
89. To take the drinking water from Chadwell Spring to London, 1609 – 1613
90. Fig Sunday, as tradition maintains that Christ ate figs on this day.
91. 1 in 11
92. Zoological Museum in Tring
93. Beaver
94. Ashwell, Hertford, Berkhamsted, St Albans and Stansted Abbots
95. Married at 16 she had 39 children – 7 boys and 32 girls and only one set of twins. The last was born when she was 54
96. Panshanger
97. Chorleywood in 1890 (West Herts and Boxmoor founded later the same year)
98. Lea or Lee
99. Hobson’s choice
100. Trust and fear not