Colney Heath

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|country = England

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|official_name = Colney Heath

|civil_parish = Colney Heath

|area_total_sq_mi = 4.32

|population = 5962

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|shire_district = St Albans

|shire_county = Hertfordshire

|region = East of England

|constituency_westminster = St Albans

|post_town = ST ALBANS

|postcode_district = AL4

|postcode_area = AL

|dial_code = 01727

|os_grid_reference = TL205055

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Colney Heath is a large village in Hertfordshire, England. The village became a civil parish in 1947 when the St. Peter Rural parish was split to form Colney Heath and London Colney. There is a converted windmill in the village. The civil parish also includes the settlements of Smallford and Sleapshyde.

Twinning

Colney Heath is twinned with:

{{flagicon|France}} Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon, France; also a small village, and each year either French families visit Colney Heath or English families visit France.{{cite web|url=http://www.colneyheathtwinning.org.uk/engintro.html|title=About the Twinning Association|publisher=Colney Heath/Boissy Twinning Association|access-date=16 May 2012}}

Education

Colney Heath School is the only school in the village. It is a primary school for children aged between three and eleven.{{cite web |title=School Information |url=http://www.colneyheath.herts.sch.uk/school-information/ |publisher=Colney Heath School |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627053621/http://www.colneyheath.herts.sch.uk/school-information/ |archive-date=27 June 2012 |access-date=16 May 2012}}

Sport and leisure

Colney Heath has a football club that currently competes in the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division and plays the home matches at The Recreation Ground.{{cite web|url=http://www.clubwebsite.co.uk/colneyheathfc/History|title=Colney Heath FC History|publisher=Colney Heath Football Club|date=28 August 2010|access-date=16 May 2012}} The village has a rugby league club that also plays at The Recreation Ground.

Colney Heath also has a Taekwondo Club which trains at the village hall. The club is led by Master Kim Anderson (VII Degree) who also founded it in 1979.

Colney Heath Local Nature Reserve is located in the village.{{cite web|url= http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=21&N=&ID=604|title= Colney Heath|series= Local Nature Reserves|publisher= Natural England|date= 13 March 2013|access-date= 29 September 2014|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141101213931/http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=21&N=&ID=604|archive-date= 1 November 2014}}{{cite web|url= http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=lnrIndex&query=REF_CODE%3D%271009336%27|title=Map of Colney Heath|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England| access-date= 29 September 2014}}

References

External links

[http://www.colneyheathtwinning.org.uk Colney Heath / Boissy Twinning Association]

Category:Villages in Hertfordshire

Category:Civil parishes in Hertfordshire