Lemsford Local History Group has produced 3 publications which are on sale to the public. The A5 booklets ranging in price from £2-00 to £2-50 help to finance our group to continue our work.

1. Rex’s walk through Lemsford Village. Price £2-00

Rex Tait invites you to walk around Lemsford Village and produces 20 facts about the village. If you want to find the house that housed illegitimate babies born in the war, where the P.O.W. camp was, where the song ‘Nellie Dean’ was written and the location of bakery, blacksmiths, and cobblers, then this publication will tell you.

2. Jeremy’s walk through Cromer Hyde. Price £2.00

Jeremy Summers was born in Welwyn Garden City and moved to Cromer Hyde in 1986. He was Chairman of Lemsford Local History Group from 2002 to 2007 and led the members on a walk through Cromer Hyde on Saturday, January 3 2003. This booklet describes that walk. Starting at the Crooked Chimney in Lower Cromer Hyde, follow the walk through middle Cromer Hyde to Upper Cromer Hyde, and find out the history of the area.

3. Lemsford Village History. Some notes about the Village pubs, past and present.

   Price £2.50.

This publication written by S.F. Borrie with help from Lemsford Local History Group, records all the pubs in the Lemsford area past and present. Learn the history of the pubs we know, The Crooked Chimney, The Long Arm and Short Arm, The Sun, The Wagon & Horses, Bull(now the East) Waggoners and Red Lion. You will also learn of the pubs that no longer exist, The Lamb, Roebuck , The Angel and The Horse and Jockey. This booklet is a great read to enjoy over a pint.

To purchase the booklet of your choice please Email chapman.lc@btinternet.com with your order. If you are in or around the village we will deliver to you free of charge. Further a field we will send it by post, adding 70p to the cost of the book for Postage and packaging for all orders in the U.K. Mainland.
Overseas postage charges calculated on request.