Boreham

Ralph and his Dad came to visit, and we went to the nearby village of Boreham for lunch on a day that started grey and dull, but which cheered up into a lovely warm and sunny afternoon and early evening.  Boreham is a very attractive village, with all the quintessential characteristics of an English village - quaint church and generally bursting with thatched cottages such as the one shown here with well tended gardens full of mandatory climbing roses, dahlias and hollyhocks. The sort of place teachers retire to, with Miss Marple living next door,  and maybe John Nettles just down the road?......

Stuff about Boreham includes (taken from Wikipedia, but it seems to be true!):
One mile to the northwest of the village is New Hall School, once a palace of Henry VIII known as The Palace of Beaulieu. The estate on which it was built, was granted to the Canons of Waltham Abbey in 1062. After a number of changes of possession, in 1491 it was granted by the Crown to the Earl of Ormond. By this time it had a house called New Hall. In 1517 New Hall was sold by Thomas Boleyn to Henry VIII of England. New Hall was later the estate of the Tyrell family and latterly the Hoare banking family. In 1727, Benjamin Hoare commissioned architect Henry Flitcroft to build a new home nearby known as Boreham House, a stately home; the early Georgian mansion is now a Grade I listed building. In the 1930s Boreham House and its surrounding land of 3,000 acres (12 km2) was bought by car magnate Henry Ford. In addition to using the house as a school for training Ford tractor mechanics, the company's British chairman, Lord Perry, founded the Henry Ford Institute of Agricultural Engineering, an agricultural college here.  (Wikipedia)