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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 20:31:53 GMT
That is true for that part of Hertfordshire the neighbouring borough of Hemel Hempstead was once a Labour council I dont think there is a labour cllr on there anymore
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 28, 2017 21:20:53 GMT
Similarly Leavesden in Three Rivers, which also used to be reliably Labour (but now, on almost identical geographic boundaries as then, but the large asylum having closed and been replaced with private estates, has one of the lowest Labour shares around.) I guess shutting the asylum means that Labour were always going to struggle  arf. |
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Post by greenhert on Nov 28, 2017 21:26:52 GMT
That is true for that part of Hertfordshire the neighbouring borough of Hemel Hempstead was once a Labour council I dont think there is a labour cllr on there anymore Hemel Hempstead is not a borough but the largest town in the borough of Dacorum which also includes Berkhamsted, Tring, and surrounding villages. There is still one Labour councillor left in Dacorum although the official opposition is the Liberal Democrats. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 28, 2017 21:46:59 GMT
There are in fact a grand total of two Labour councillors which has been the state of affairs for the last decade (though they have won a different pair of seats in each of 2007, 2011 and 2015.) Dacorum was Labour controlled when it was first created in 1973 until 1976 and then again from 1995-99
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 29, 2017 14:25:01 GMT
Is Dacorum a Roman name for Hemel Hempstead or another town in the borough, or something? It's one of the Hundreds of Hertfordshire, roughly (very roughly) corresponding to the current district:  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2017 15:13:17 GMT
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Post by yellowperil on Nov 29, 2017 15:40:36 GMT
Is Dacorum a Roman name for Hemel Hempstead or another town in the borough, or something? It's one of the Hundreds of Hertfordshire, roughly (very roughly) corresponding to the current district: that map shows proper dacorum |
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Post by yellowperil on Nov 29, 2017 15:49:24 GMT
I love these old hundreds, Wapentakes, etc.
In my childhood back in Somerset I lived a short distance from the Hundredstone, and the area around it was kept as a little park with seats around the standing stone, so one could very easily have called the hundred to business. Would not have required all this modern nonsense about elections..
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Post by froome on Nov 29, 2017 15:58:35 GMT
Is Dacorum a Roman name for Hemel Hempstead or another town in the borough, or something? It's one of the Hundreds of Hertfordshire, roughly (very roughly) corresponding to the current district: Braughing sounds familiar apart from being a village (and indeed a quick check on Wiki shows it was once a rural district council around there). Odsey and Cottesloe should definitely become a constituency name. I'm sure I once started a thread here about old hundreds, but perhaps that was just in my dreams...  |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 29, 2017 18:45:51 GMT
Braughing is still the name of the ward covering the village but was also, until this year, the name of a county council division which covered roughly the area of the old rural district. It was renamed this year after the much larger settlement of Buntingford It is also famous of course for its excellent sausages www.braughingsausage.com/Broadwater is also still the name of a county council division in Stevenage |
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Post by carlton43 on Nov 29, 2017 18:53:55 GMT
Braughing is still the name of the ward covering the village but was also, until this year, the name of a county council division which covered roughly the area of the old rural district. It was renamed this year after the much larger settlement of Buntingford It is also famous of course for its excellent sausages www.braughingsausage.com/Broadwater is also still the name of a county council division in Stevenage Decades ago on my frequent trips from Kent to Suffolk it was a level crossing and station on the then open Buntingford branch. |
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Post by Robert Waller on Nov 29, 2017 21:50:03 GMT
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Post by johnloony on Nov 30, 2017 6:57:18 GMT
Is Dacorum a Roman name for Hemel Hempstead or another town in the borough, or something? It's one of the Hundreds of Hertfordshire, roughly (very roughly) corresponding to the current district: That's a brillig fun map. It reminds me of the cantons of Switzerland, with their multiple exclaves. It should be the basis of parliamentary constituency boundaries. In fact, parliamentary constituencies should have lots more exclaves & enclaves generally. |
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Post by yellowperil on Nov 30, 2017 10:51:34 GMT
It's one of the Hundreds of Hertfordshire, roughly (very roughly) corresponding to the current district: That's a brillig fun map. It reminds me of the cantons of Switzerland, with their multiple exclaves. It should be the basis of parliamentary constituency boundaries. In fact, parliamentary constituencies should have lots more exclaves & enclaves generally. Yes but of course this is only after some rationalising! Danais and Tring hundreds merged to create this new- fangled thing called Dacorum! |
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Post by Robert Waller on Nov 30, 2017 11:09:57 GMT
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Post by The Bishop on Nov 30, 2017 11:23:23 GMT
It's one of the Hundreds of Hertfordshire, roughly (very roughly) corresponding to the current district: That's a brillig fun map. It reminds me of the cantons of Switzerland, with their multiple exclaves. It should be the basis of parliamentary constituency boundaries. In fact, parliamentary constituencies should have lots more exclaves & enclaves generally. Though I can only make out 8 colours on the map - despite there being 9 in the panel  |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 30, 2017 11:31:34 GMT
That's a brillig fun map. It reminds me of the cantons of Switzerland, with their multiple exclaves. It should be the basis of parliamentary constituency boundaries. In fact, parliamentary constituencies should have lots more exclaves & enclaves generally. Though I can only make out 8 colours on the map - despite there being 9 in the panel Cottesloe is actually a Hundred of Bucks, not of Hertfordshire, and seems to have been included in error. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 30, 2017 11:53:57 GMT
As the whole of this second page of this thread is concerned with Hertfordshire, I nipped back to page 1 to see which ward in the county was having a by-election today and discovered there isn't one. I see I am myself at least partly responsible for this particular example of off-topicness
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Post by yellowperil on Nov 30, 2017 12:30:59 GMT
I think it all happened at the start of page 2 - obviously restricting the elections this week, so all were south of the Thames, was too much for some people, but absolutely nothing to do with railways for once. An interesting little diversion though and I'll put my hand up and admit some responsibility too. Four interesting by elections in their own right though and I'm sure there will be lots to say about them when the results come flooding in.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 30, 2017 12:38:56 GMT
I think it all happened at the start of page 2 - obviously restricting the elections this week, so all were south of the Thames, was too much for some people, but absolutely nothing to do with railways for once. An interesting little diversion though and I'll put my hand up and admit some responsibility too. Four interesting by elections in their own right though and I'm sure there will be lots to say about them when the results come flooding in. Almost... Braughing is still the name of the ward covering the village but was also, until this year, the name of a county council division which covered roughly the area of the old rural district. It was renamed this year after the much larger settlement of Buntingford It is also famous of course for its excellent sausages www.braughingsausage.com/Broadwater is also still the name of a county council division in Stevenage Decades ago on my frequent trips from Kent to Suffolk it was a level crossing and station on the then open Buntingford branch. |
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