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Ayot St Lawrence

Village in Hertfordshire, England

Field	Value
country	England
static_image_name	Ayot St. Lawrence village centre, Hertfordshire - geograph.org.uk - 1478593.jpg
static_image_caption	Ayot St. Lawrence village centre
label_position	bottom
coordinates
official_name	Ayot St Lawrence
shire_district	Welwyn Hatfield
shire_county	Hertfordshire
region	East of England
constituency_westminster	Welwyn Hatfield
post_town	WELWYN
postcode_district	AL6
postcode_area	AL
dial_code	01438
os_grid_reference	TL195165

Ayot St Lawrence is a small English village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, 2 mi west of Welwyn. There are several other Ayots in the area, including Ayot Green and Ayot St Peter, where the census population of Ayot St Lawrence was included in 2011.

Heritage

George Bernard Shaw lived in the village, at Shaw's Corner, from 1906 until his death in 1950; his ashes are scattered there. The house is open to the public as a National Trust property.

Other residents of the village included Shaw's friend, neighbour and bibliographer Stephen Winsten (1893–1991) and his wife, the artist Clare Winsten (1894–1989).

During the 1950s, the silk-maker Zoe Dyke (1896–1975) moved her business to Ayot House. The historical novelist, biographer and children's writer Carola Oman, Lady Lenanton (1897–1978) lived at Bride Hall with her husband. She died there on 11 June 1978.

Amenities

The village has a timber-framed public house, The Brocket Arms, which may date back to the early 16th century. It also offers meals and accommodation.

The village has two churches:

Old St Lawrence Church, in the centre of the village, was partially demolished in 1775, because it was obstructing the view from Sir Lionel Lyde's new home.

Field Marshal Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan (1865–1946), a British Army officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff, is buried in the churchyard.

New St Lawrence Church was designed in a neo-classical style by Nicholas Revett and features a Palladian-style frontage with Doric columns.

References

Gallery

Image:Shaw's Corner1.jpg|Shaw's Corner Image:IMG 0235 Church Ayot St. Lawrence.jpg|Ruins of the old Church

References

(1980). "AA Book of British Villages". Drive Publications Limited.
"Shaw's Corner".
(2009-09-06). "Open house at Shaw's Corner". The Welwyn and Hatfield Times.
"Ayot Saint Lawrence". Hertfordshire Genealogy.
John Martin, "Dyke, (Millicent) Zoë, Lady Dyke (1896–1975)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/71610, accessed 12 July 2017]
Bostridge, Mark. (4 October 2007). ["Oman, Carola Mary Anima married name Carola Mary Anima Lenanton, Lady Lenanton".
"The Brocket Arms, Ayot St Lawrence". Mysterious Britain.
"The Brocket Arms".
(2002-02-04). "Van Gogh walked here". St Albans & Harpenden Review.
"Ayot (St Lawrence) Old Churchyard". [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]].
"Parishes – Ayot St. Lawrence or Great Ayot". British History Online.

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