About Essendon
Essendon is a Hertfordshire village and civil parish midway between the towns of Hatfield Hertford and Welwyn Garden City. The Rose and Crown is the one remaining public house situated in the idyllic village setting of Essendon. The pubs history dates back to 1756 as a traditional coach house. Now owned by Ind Coup, this old coach house has recently undergone a major renovation, with the incorporation of a restaurant as well as returning many traditional features in the bar.
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The village is 100 metres above sea level and offers views of the Lee Valley to the north. Although on an ancient site, St Mary's Church dates mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries and was restored in 1883. The west tower dates from the 15th century and has six bells, the oldest is dated 1681. The church contains an unusual Wedgewood ceramic font dated 1780 and several brasses and monuments. In 1916 the east end of the church was damaged by a bomb dropped by the German Navy Zeppelin L-16, two sisters were killed.
Historic houses in the parish include Camfield Place which was the home of the novelist Barbara Cartland and visited by Beatrix Potter. Essendon Place was the seat of the Barons Dimsdale of Russia. Thomas Dimsdale was an expert on the treatment of small pox by inoculation and in 1768 he was invited to Russia to inoculate Catherine the Great. For his services there he was made a baron of the Russian Empire. Bedwell Park is another manor house near to the village. Bedwell End was the home of Deneys Reitz, High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa, until his death on 19 October 1944. At the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War he joined the Boer forces at the age of seventeen and accompanied General JC Smuts on his famous raid in the Cape Colony, of which Reitz wrote a stirring account in his autobiography.