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Our surveyors are not timed or targeted to do as many surveys in one day or in a week. They are all Independent Chartered Surveyors and are able to take as much time as the survey requires to do a professional job. The surveyor needs time to understand the building he is surveying and to fully examine the property for potential problems, such as rising damp or lateral or penetrating dampness. Our surveyors are also available to speak to you either at the property and / or on the telephone after the survey to talk through their findings.

Facts and places of interest in and around Hatfield

Interesting Facts about Hatfield

• In 1851 the route of the Great North Road (now the A1000 road) was changed to avoid running through the grounds of Hatfield House.

• The first production-line jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, was built in Hatfield along with the Mosquito and Trident aircrafts.

• Hatfield was the site of a train crash in 2000.

• ‘Hatfield and the North' were a rock band in the 1970s. They took their name from the first road sign on the A1 motorway going north from London.

• 1970s rock band, ‘Babe Ruth', came from Hatfield.

• Since 1953 Hatfield has been twinned with Zierikzee, a Dutch port town.

• British Aerospace used to be based in Hatfield. The site closed in 1992.

• The premises that had been used by British Aerospace has acted as a film location for the film ‘Saving Private Ryan' which was directed by Steven Spielberg. It was also used during the filming of the TV drama ‘Band of Brothers'.

• Charles Dickens mentions ‘The Eight Bells Inn' in ‘Oliver Twist'. It is used by Bill Sykes as a temporary resting place when he is running from London after he has murdered Nancy . Today The Eight Bells is located on a quiet cul-de-sac.

Places of Interest in and around Hatfield

Hatfield House

Superb red-brick Jacobean mansion built by Robert Cecil, 1 st Earl of Salisbury, between 1607 and 1611. The property could tell many tales of political intrigue from Elizabethan and Victorian history.

The property has a wonderful Marble Hall with a richly carved oak ceiling and the Grand Staircase has carved heraldic beasts designed on it. The Long Gallery has a gold-leaf ceiling. The house holds many fine paintings, tapestries and furniture and you can also see exhibits of armour used in days gone by.

The West Gardens are re-created in a 17 th Century formal style. There is a scented garden, knot garden and herb garden to explore. In the East garden there are rare plants, topiary and beautiful flowers.

The gardens also hold the wing of The Royal Palace of Hatfield, which is all that is left of this old building. It is here that Elizabeth I spent much of her childhood and also heard that she would become Queen.

The parkland around is about 1000 acres and has woodland trails and paths and a children's play area.

Hatfield Leisure Centre

Hatfield Leisure Centre has a fitness suite, squash courts, badminton courts, a main sports hall for a variety of uses, an activity studio, dance studio, five-a-side football pitches on synthetic surface and also creche facilities.

Hertfordshire Sports Village

The Hertfordshire Sports Village has a 25m swimming pool, sports hall for badminton, basket ball and volleyball, etc. There is a fitness club, squash, indoor cricket, artificial pitches for football and rugby, climbing wall, hocky pitch etc. There is a also a café for a drink and snack after all the exertions are done!

Mill Green Mill

Mill Green Mill is situated near Welwyn Garden City in the hamlet of Mill Green.

It is thought that there may have been a mill on this site since Saxon times. In the Domesday survey of 1086 it is recorded that ‘Hetfelle' (now known as Hatfield) included four mills.

Over the years lots of alterations and repairs have taken place to the mill and a big rebuild is thought to have taken place in the late 1700s. By the early 20 th century traditional milling was not needed any more due to modernisation of the industry and in 1911 Mill Green Mill was closed.

Restoration of the mill finished in 1986 and the mill is now back in working order.

Birchwood Leisure Centre, Hatfield

The outdoor sports facilities are floodlit and there is an all weather astroturf court. There are four football pitches and a cricket wicket plus a children's football pitch.

Indoor there is a hall used for badminton, aerobics, five a side footy, netball, roller hockey and basketball. There is a fitness studio too.

Hatfield Farmers and Craft Market

Hatfield Farmers market takes place on the first Saturday of each month (not January) and there are around 50 stalls plus.

Local produce is sold and no genetically modified organisms should be sold, also no ‘brought in' items are allowed to be sold.

You can buy things such as fruit and vegetables, meats, fish, eggs, milk, cheese and butter, breads, sauses, pies, pickles and jams etc along with craft items too.

If you are interested in buying a residential property in Hatfield or taking a lease on a commercial property in Hatfield then we would be pleased to offer you our professional services. As Chartered Surveyors we provide building Surveys, structural surveys, engineer's reports, homebuyers reports as well as schedule of conditions, commercial building surveys, feasibility studies etc all carried out by independent Chartered Surveyors. We would always recommend that you have a survey carried out on a property you intend to purchase in Hatfield and the surrounding area.

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