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Harpenden
Harpenden is in Hertfordshire. Harpenden railway station is on rail link to central London served by First Capital Connect Trains run north to Luton and on to Bedford.) and London Gatwick Airport. The River Lea flows through the area and the M1 runs nearby.
History
There are Roman remains in and around Harpenden. Harpenden village grew out of Westminster Abbey's gradual clearing of woodland for farming and settlement within its Wheathampstead manor, granted by Edward the Confessor in 1060 The church of St Nicholas is the oldest church in the town, originally built as a Chapel of ease in 1217.
On the southern edge of the town lies Nomansland Common (sometimes simply called "No Man's Land") upon which part of the Second Battle of St Albans was fought during the Wars of the Roses. Nomansland Common also saw the first annually contested steeplechase in England, in 1830 when it was organised by Thomas Coleman, and the last fight of nineteenth century bare-knuckle fighter, Simon Byrne. It was also the haunt of the highwaywoman known as Lady Katherine Ferrers, better known as the "Wicked Lady".
A widespread industry for Harpenden was straw-plaiting, a trade mainly carried out by women in the nineteenth century. A good straw plaiter could make as much as a field labourer. The straw plaits were taken to the specialist markets in St Albans or Luton and bought by dealers to be converted into straw items such as boaters and other hats or bonnets.
The arrival of the railway system from 1860 and the sale of farms for residential development after 1880 radically changed Harpenden's surroundings. It grew from a basically agricultural village into a town.
Harpenden's most prestigious contribution to history is Rothamsted Manor and Rothamsted Research (formerly Rothamsted Experimental Station and later the Institute of Arable Crops Research), a leading centre for agricultural research. In front of its main building, which faces the common, is a stone, erected in 1893, commemorating 50 years of experiments by Sir John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert.
Above information sourced from various local history sites with special thanks to Wikipedia