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The Globe Inn on the northern edge of Linslade
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Watford has an annual carnival at Whitsun, perhaps best reached beyond Cassiobridge
Lock over the bridge carrying the Metropolitan Line, the canal's first meeting with the Lon-
don Underground system.
An industrial estate occupies the site of Croxley Mill, built by paper manufacturer John
Dickson in 1830 and demolished in 1982. This used coal brought via the Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Canal and esparto grass also delivered by canal. Dickinsons were probably the largest cus-
tomer for Grand Union Canal transport.
At the southern end of Croxley Green, Croxley Hall Farm's medieval tithe barn is the
second-largest in the country. The Metropolitan Line crosses back, without the planned depot
that was refused by the local authority. It is followed by Lot Mead Lock, also known as Walk-
er's, Beasley's or Cherry's after various overseers.
A 15th century house, built for the Archbishop of York, became Cardinal Wolsey's country
seat, reconstructed in Baroque style in 1727 by Leoni as the most splendid 18th century man-
sion in Hertfordshire, with marvellous interior frescoes. The grounds of the house were land-
scaped in 1758 by Capability Brown.
Rickmansworth was a market town that got its charter from Henry VIII. When Elizabeth
I died it was local landowner Robert Carey who travelled to tell James VI of Scotland that
he was also king of England. After getting married, William Penn lived here from 1672 for
five years before founding Pennsylvania. There is a brick and timber priory, the half-timbered
vicarage is partly medieval and St Mary's church was rebuilt in the 19th century in a way
that retained its early Gothic windows. Frogmoor Wharf was used to build and repair boats
- many of them canal boats but also some targets for Portsmouth's Whale Island gunnery
school, a total of 212 large boats in addition to punts and pontoons. Training of mini submar-
