Apsley, Hertfordshire
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Apsley is a village in Hertfordshire, England, in a valley of the Chiltern Hills below the confluence of the River Gade and Bulbourne. It was the site of water mills serving local agriculture and from
London Road, Apsley, looking south.
Frogmore Paper Mill, Apsley, Hertfordshire. The only surviving member of a number of 19th-century paper mills located in the town. It is now a museum, The Paper Trail.
St Mary's Church (1871) stands above the modern Sainsbury's supermarket in Apsley. It was built to serve and inspire the workers of the paper mill that once occupied the supermarket site.
Snatchup End Cottages in London Road, were designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1898.
John Dickinson Stationery
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John Dickinson Stationery Limited was a leading English stationery company founded in southwest Hertfordshire. In the 19th century, the company pioneered a number of innovations in papermaking. It bec
Apsley, Hertfordshire
…a new method of continuous papermaking, purchased Apsley Mill in 1809. During the 1930s, Apsley Mill became a vast industrial complex and its owner, John Dickinson Stationery, acquired Shendish Manor for use as its sports and social club. In the 1950s the adjacent town of Hemel Hempstead was designated a New Town as part of…
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Founder John Dickinson
Croxley Paper Mills being demolished in 1982
Dickinson's former Apsley Mill, redeveloped as a residential site