High Cross is a village in the civil parish of Thundridge, in the East Hertfordshire district, in Hertfordshire, England. It lies upon what was the A10, however the A10 Wadesmill by-pass has now been built around High Cross and neighbouring villages. Sections of the A10 that used to run through High Cross and the neighbouring settlements such as Wadesmill were once part of the Roman road, Ermine Street. It is 4.6 km (2.9 mi) north of the town of Ware and 7 km (4 mi) north east of the county town of Hertford. The population was 853 as of the 2021 census.[1]
Some nearby settlements include the villages of Thundridge and Wadesmill to the south, the hamlets of Colliers End to the north, Dane End to the west and Barwick to the east.
Amenitiesedit
High Cross contains Puller Memorial Primary school, St John the Evangelist Church, and formely the White Horse Pub which closed down in 2017.
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake, VC & Bar, VD, FRCS (1874-1953), double recipient of the Victoria Cross lived in High Cross in the later years of his life and is now buried in the village church.
^"High Cross (Hertfordshire, East of England, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
^"Light aircraft flipped over at High Cross airstrip after landing gear failure". BBC News. 30 January 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
^History, Topography, & Directory of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire: To which is Prefixed an Abridgement of the Early History of England ... a List of Kings of England ... an Account of the Heptarchy and of the Idols Worshipped by the Saxons ... Proprietors. 1864.
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