Bricket Wood is a village in the county of Hertfordshire, England, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) south of St Albans city centre and 4.2 miles (6.8 km) north-northeast of Watford.
Bricket Wood Common south of the village
Mount Pleasant Lane JMI School
St Lukes Church, modelled on an upside down Noah's Ark
Gerald Brosseau Gardner, also known by the craft name Scire, was an English Wiccan, author, and amateur anthropologist and archaeologist. He was instrumental in bringing the modern pagan religion of Wicca to public attention, writing some of its definitive religious texts and founding the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca.
Gerald Gardner
Gardner with his Irish nursemaid, Com, during the 1880s
While working in Borneo in 1911, Gardner eschewed the racist attitudes of his colleagues by befriending members of the Dayak indigenous community, fascinated by their magico-religious beliefs, tattoos and displays of weaponry.
A selection of kris knives; Gardner took a great interest in such items, even authoring the definitive text on the subject, Keris and Other Malay Weapons (1936).