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Brookmans Park history
Miss Muffet
Local legend has it that “Little Miss Muffet” of the nursery rhyme was Patience Moffat, daughter of entomologist Dr. Thomas Moffat. The traceable origins of the rhyme are murky, as it did not appear in a printed version until 1805.
Two estates and great houses
Gobions estate was transferred to John More in 1397: the house renamed More Hall. More Hall later became Gubbins or Gobions, also Gybynnes. The name has varied over the centuries and through many ownerships. In the 1700s the area of Brookmans Park was recorded as having two manor houses.
Folly Arch
Folly Arch was erected as one of the entrances to the Gobions estate as part of Charles Bridgeman’s garden design for Sir Jeremy Sambrooke c. 1740. It is a Grade II* listed building and visible from Brookmans Park, north of Hawkshead Road.
Birth of a village
In 1923 land from Gobions Estate was bought by the White/Calder building syndicate to construct a commuter village. The London & North Eastern Railway built Brookmans Park Railway Station in 1926. In the late 1930s there was a building spree: 55 in 1936, 60 in 1937 – in Uplands Drive, The Grove, Kentish Lane and Westland Drive.
Second World War
In 1940 the first 1000lb bomb was dropped on Queenswood’s hockey field. Brookmans Park was on the Outer London Defence Ring. The London Blitz resulted in children being evacuated to the park.
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