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Carpenders Park is a suburb of Watford in the Watford Rural parish of the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire, England. It is located in the south western corner of Hertfordshire and close to the boundary with Greater London. It is bounded to the West by a railway line that separates it from South Oxhey, to the East by the A4008 Watford to Harrow Road (Oxhey Lane), to the South by the B4542 (Little Oxhey Lane), Green Belt and the boundary with the London Borough of Harrow and to the North by woodland (Margeholes Wood and Sherwood Wood). ==History== Carpenders Park was originally an estate based around a manor house of the same name. This was later a girls school, Highfields, which was demolished in 1960 to make way for USAF married quarters. These were in turn demolished in 1997/98.〔(Short History of Carpenders Park ) accessed 5 May 2008〕〔(Pulham in Hertfordshire ) accessed 5 May 2008〕 The base was also known as Highfields. The houses and bungalows of Carpenders Park were originally built in the 1930s. There was subsequent development in the 1950s including some council housing built for the Watford Rural District Council. The vast majority of the dwellings, though, are privately owned. The estate was significantly enlarged in the late 1960s. Many of these later houses have flat roofs and the area gained some notoriety as ''Plummers Park'', the setting for Leslie Thomas' ''Tropic of Ruislip'',〔(Three Rivers DC Towns and Villages ) accessed 6 May 2008〕 which had wife swapping as one of its themes. The ventriloquist Roger DeCourcey also lived on the estate in the 1970s. The estate is also home to celebrity actor Christopher Pulford, who was a regular on ITV television programme "The Bill", starring as Liam Bryant for a short stint, as well as making appearances on sponsorship advertisements for The X Factor, Persil and Frey Bentos pies. He currently resides in Compton Place with his family. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carpenders Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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