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We have fitted many garage doors in the Rickmansworth area over the years. The most recent job in Rickmansworth was a new electronic garage door. The customer was tired of opening and closing the garage door when it was raining and was utterly thrilled to be able to simply press a button to see their roller shutter garage door gliding up and down effortlessly.

Many of our customers state that they now use their garage to store their car now they have an electrically operated garage door. Before, they would be more inclined to leave it on the driveway. By putting your car inside your garage, you are keeping it safe from dishonest individuals, protecting it from the elements, and keeping it looking cleaner for much longer. Keeping a car in a garage also make the paintwork stay in better condition for longer too. No more bird droppings either, which can be highly corrosive, particularly when the birds have been eating acidic berries from the trees.

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Where is Rickmansworth?

Rickmansworth, or Ricky, as it has referred to locally is a town in south-west Hertfordshire. Rickmansworth is located approximately seventeen miles north-west of central London, five miles south-west of Watford and inside the perimeter of the M25 motorway. Rickmansworth is mainly to the north of the Grand Union Canal, formerly known as the Grand Junction Canal and the River Colne.

Rickmansworth is the administrative seat of the Three Rivers District Council; the confluence of the River Chess and the River Gade with the Colne in Rickmansworth inspired the district's name. The enlarged Colne flows south to form a major tributary of the River Thames.

Leisure activities in Rickmansworth

Rickmansworth has a fantastic public park called the Aquadrome. It covers about one hundred acres, the Aquadrome Local Nature Reserve consists of Batchworth Lake, Bury Lake, open grassland, areas of woodland, large free car park and a children's play area. The Aquadrome boundaries are to the north, the River Colne, the east and south, the Grand Union Canal, and to the west, Stockers Lake. In 2009, the Aquadrome received a Green Flag award, which is given to parks and open spaces that meet certain exacting standards. A new cafe opened in the Aquadrome earlier in the same year. The lakes are old gravel quarries in Rickmansworth have been filled with water and fish. Some of the gravel from the site was used to build Wembley Stadium back in 1923. Both lakes are great for fishing. Batchworth Lake is popular for water skiing events and hosts the Rickmansworth Water Ski Club. Bury Lake is home to BLYM, a sailing club and an RYA recognised teaching establishment. The much larger Stockers Lake, to the west of the Aquadrome, is also a nature reserve.

Rickmansworth is served by the Metropolitan line of the London Underground and by Chiltern Railways of the National Rail network, between London Marylebone and Aylesbury.

The origin of the Rickmansworth name

The name Rickmansworth comes from the Saxon name 'Ryckmer', the local landowner, and 'worth' meaning a farm or stockade. In the Domesday Book of 1086, it was recorded as the Manor of Prichemaresworde. There are at least eight other spellings that date from 1119 to 1418.

History of Rickmansworth

There was an established settlement in this part of the Colne Valley during the Stone Age. Rickmansworth was one of five manors with which the great Abbey of St Albans had been endowed when founded in 793 by King Offa of Mercia. Local tithes supported the abbey, which provided clergy to serve the people until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 under King Henry VIII. Around the time of the Domesday Book, the population of "Prichemareworth", now Rickmansworth may have been about two hundred.

The infamous right hand of Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey, in his capacity as Abbot of St Albans, held the Manor of le More in the valley. The manor house was replaced by the hill-top mansion Moor Park, which eventually became the residence of Admiral Lord Anson, who commissioned Capability Brown to remake the formal gardens, and in 1828 of the Barons Ebury; it is now the Golf Club House. The wider area, including Croxley Green, Moor Park, Batchworth, Mill End, West Hyde and Chorleywood, formed the original parish of Rickmansworth.

In 1851, the population of Rickmansworth had grown to 4,800, and the parish was divided. St Mary's Church serves the parish concentrated in the town and extending to Batchworth and parts of Moor Park. Rickmansworth had a population of 14,571 recorded at the 2001 census.

The three rivers, the Colne, Chess and Gade, provided water for the watercress trade and power for corn milling, silk weaving, paper making and brewing, all sadly long-gone local businesses. Other industries have included leather-tanning, soft drinks, laundry, straw-plaiting, and stocking production. Now, the rivers, canal and flooded gravel pits provide for recreation.

West Mill, a water mill, existed at the time of the Domesday Survey. It was leased to the abbot and convent of St Albans by Ralph Bukberd for a term of years ending in 1539. In 1533, they leased it from the end of this term for twenty-six years to Richard Wilson of Watford. He was to keep in repair the mill and two millstones, which were ten inches thick, and over four feet in breadth. The mill was leased in 1544 to William Hutchinson, yeoman of the spicery, and Janet his wife for their lives. It afterwards came to John Wilson and was granted in 1576-77 to Richard Master. There was also a watermill called Batchworth Mill, and a fishery called Blacketts Mill in Rickmansworth. Batchworth Mill was later used as a cotton mill, but was bought in 1820 by John Dickinson & Co., and converted into paper mills, now the site of Affinity Water. Scotsbridge Mill was also productive but is now a restaurant with the unusual feature of a salmon run. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries many of the principal inhabitants were described as "clothiers", from which it may be inferred that the manufacture of cloth was at one time continued in the parish, but this industry has long since ceased. There were also silk and flock mills here, described in 1808 as recently built.

A long-running dispute over water levels in the Batchford area, following construction of the Grand Junction Canal, was resolved in 1825, when an obelisk of over eight feet in height was erected in a pond, to function as a water gauge. It records the agreement made between the canal company, John Dickinson the miller at Batchworth Mill, and R. Williams of Moor Park the landowner.

A rail expansion for Rickmansworth

In July 1860, Lord Ebury obtained powers to construct a new four-and-a-half-mile single-track railway line, the Watford and Rickmansworth Railway between Rickmansworth and Watford. Opening in October 1862, Rickmansworth railway station was opposite the parish church of St Mary, with interchange sidings to the Grand Union Canal. The line had stations at Watford Junction and Watford High Street and a depot in Watford. Further progress was made a year later to construct an extension from Rickmansworth to connect with the Great Western Railway's Uxbridge branch, but this was never realised.

Despite hopes that the railway would bring economic development and serve the factories and warehouses that had developed along the Grand Union Canal, it was Watford that grew at a faster pace and drew business from Rickmansworth.

The railway was never financially successful, and the Official Receiver was called in four years after opening. The company attempted to remedy its financial problems by opening several freight branches, the most notable being to the Croxley printers and to the Grand Union Canal at Croxley Green.

Rickmansworth grew dramatically during the Victorian era and in the 1920s and 1930s as part of Metro-land, due to the extension of Metropolitan Railway, and became a commuter town.

If you live in or around the Rickmansworth area and would like to see what a difference a new garage door could do for your property, why not drop us a line?

We can supply, fit, service and repair a massive range of high-quality garage doors in many distinctive styles and finishes.

Manual or electronically operated, our garage doors are certain to improve the look and curb appeal of your property. They will offer you many years of trouble-free service and we are only a phone call away should a service or repair ever be needed.