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18-541: Heartwood Forest is located near Sandridge , St Albans , in the Metropolitan Green Belt . When the Woodland Trust acquired the land in 2008, most of the area consisted of farmland, predominantly oilseed rape fields. Only 18 hectares (44 acres) of the site's total 347 hectares (860 acres) consisted of ancient woodland . The name "Heartwood" was chosen for the growing forest as a nod to the heart-shaped leaves of

36-486: A post office), a pharmacy, a beauty salon 'Pure', an Indian Restaurant 'Bengal Spice', and a hair salon 'Ro Ko Ko'. The local secondary school is Sandringham . Jersey Farm has its own Residents Association (JFRA) which arranges a number of yearly events such as a Fireworks display and Christmas Party for the children of Jersey Farm. Members of the Jersey Farm Residents Association are also provided with

54-423: A quarterly newsletter, detailing community news and events. The pub used a local competition to name it, "Blackberry Jack" being the winning entry. According to the entry Blackberry Jack was a local tramp who lived in "camps" in the blackberry bushes around the local fields. In fact his name was Bill or William; he never told anyone his last name. He was known to travel to London and north to Norfolk. "Jack" or John

72-409: Is contiguous with one other settlement, which is larger and has two schools, Marshalswick to the west and south-west and otherwise adjoins fields and farms. The area was converted from cultivated fields into a residential estate in the 1970s, and as such many of the properties are more modern than in the city centre. Local amenities include a pub, small shops and a community centre. It was named after

90-517: The Forestry Commission at a site in Scotland. The Heartwood Forest site came second, with 20,326 trees planted, being beaten by Gransha Park where they planted over 26,000 trees in the hour. The site officially opened on 25 March 2018. Over a period of ten years, roughly 45,000 volunteers, including 17,000 school children, planted a total of 600,000 trees. The original ancient forest in the area

108-620: The Rose and Crown and the Queen's Head . The village church, St Leonard's , is medieval. Its lychgate was built as a memorial to World War I. It also supports Sandridge Rovers F.C. , who play in the Hertfordshire Senior County League . Sandridge was one of the earlier homes of the great English general, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough , and his infamous wife, Sarah , a favourite of Queen Anne . The title Baron Sandridge

126-514: The city centre of St Albans (2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the south-west) and Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire , England, forming part of the contiguous built-up area of St Albans. The original name was "Saundruage" meaning a place of sandy soil serviced by bond tenants. The earliest recorded mention of Sandridge is in the year 796 the parish being part of the revenue of the Mercian Kings . It

144-716: The final skirmishes of the Second Battle of St Albans took place in and around Sandridge as the Earl of Warwick , for the Yorkists, retreated towards Nomansland . The population of Sandridge parish at the time of the 2021 census was 11,919. This includes some people living in the Jersey Farm area of St Albans and partly the Marshalswick area. The village has three pubs: the Green Man ,

162-500: The history of St Leonard's Church, Sandridge, A paper read at a meeting of the St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archeological Society, held at Sandridge, June 24, 1900 by the Rev J.A. Cruikshank M.A. Jersey Farm Jersey Farm is a residential neighbourhood in the civil parish of Sandridge centred 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-east of the city centre of St Albans . It

180-456: The local farm house which sat close to the current shops. This name was not that old as it changed in the 60s; before that it was known as Evans farm. Its elevations range from 110 metres in the north-west to 77 metres above sea level in the south-east just above a source of a small tributary of the Colne . Jersey Farm has one pub, The Blackberry Jack, as well as a branch of Tesco Express (including

198-588: The rare Lime trees present in these original pockets of ancient woodland. On 9 December 2009, a Guinness World Record attempt was made for the BBC Tree O'Clock scheme, in association with the Woodland Trust to plant the most new trees as possible in one hour. Three woodland sites made the attempt: the Heartwood Forest, Hainault Forest and Gransha Park. The previous record was 18,124 trees in an hour, held by

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216-451: The site contains open grassland and wildflower meadows. Part of the motivation for the forest planting was to improve biodiversity . The Woodland Trust monitors local wildlife, and found that many species' populations more than doubled between 2010 and 2016, as the forest expanded substantially. Short-eared owls and barn owls returned for the area for the first time in a decade, and several entirely new species were attracted. As of 2017,

234-481: The site was taken over by the Home Office for police research. It is home to a small grass airfield to the north, named Coleman Green Airstrip which is used for general aviation. In 2008 the Woodland Trust announced plans to create a new forest north of Sandridge. The 858 acres (347 hectares) of woodland are now called Heartwood Forest . The forest surrounds the north and northwest of the parish . Some dates in

252-401: The trust had recorded 87 different bird species, 62 small mammal species, and 27 butterfly species. The forest is open to the public free of charge, with marked trails and walking paths throughout. There are also routes to allow riding bicycles or horses. As of 2019, the forest attracted roughly 140,000 visitors a year. Sandridge Sandridge is a village and civil parish between

270-531: The wireless traffic between Germany, Italy, Tokyo and other enemy embassies around the world. Messages intercepted at Sandridge were sent to Bletchley Park for decryption. The results were vital to Winston Churchill who used the information to make important decisions about the course of the war. After the Second World War it became part of the Diplomatic Wireless Service under GCHQ and in 1973

288-545: Was given by Egfrith son of Offa in the first year of his reign to abbot Eadric second abbot of St Alban's Monastery and to the monks of St Albans . Part of the parish of Sandridge was added to the Municipal Borough of St Albans in 1887. The remainder of the parish was renamed Sandridge Rural in 1894 when Sandridge Rural Parish Council was formed. In 1913 a further 241 acres were transferred to St Albans. The parish name reverted to Sandridge in 1957. In February 1461

306-560: Was given to Churchill by James II in 1685, and was his first English peerage title (his earlier title, Baron Eyemouth, had been created in 1682 by James's predecessor, Charles II , in the Peerage of Scotland ). In 1939 the first Second World War secret Wireless Intercept Station was constructed by the GPO at the top of Woodcock Hill. It was the first of a group of stations dedicated to Diplomatic Interception with rows of radio operators listening to

324-457: Was mostly a bluebell wood . New plantings focused on native species like oak , hornbeam , birch , and willow trees. A community orchard of more than 600 fruit trees similarly focuses on old Hertfortshire varieties, including apple, pear and cherry trees. There is also an arboretum with representatives of all 57 native British tree species, the only such collection in the UK. In addition to trees,

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