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Hatching Green
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A brief note about the area
Ann Weatherhead’s phantom Another of Ann’s hauntings |
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Hatching Green is most famous for Rothamsted Research which is, almost certainly, the oldest agricultural research station in the world. The centre was founded in 1843 when the owner of the Rothamsted Estate, John Bennet Lawes, appointed Joseph Henry Gilbert, a chemist, as his scientific collaborator. Lawes and Gilbert worked together for fifty seven years and they laid the foundations of modern scientific agriculture and established the principles of crop nutrition.
Agdell Path runs from Pimlico Place to Agdell Cottage, Hatching Green, past a field which is now part of the Rothamsted estate. In this field there was a dell known as Hagdell where a woman of local legend, Ann Weatherhead, used to live. Ann is now said to walk this path as well as appearing at Harpenden Common and Rothamsted Manor. So frequent were the sightings of Ann’s phantom that young girls would not go near the area alone after dark. The schoolmaster at Rothamsted was also convinced about the path’s ghostly reputation.
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The ghost of Ann Weatherhead is said to appear on the road between Hatching Green and Rothamsted Manor. In a field which is now part of the Rothamsted estate there was a dell known as Hagdell where Ann Weatherhead used to live. Ann is also said to walk this path as well as appearing at Harpenden Common.
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