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WG Landscapes offers the widest range in the local and surrounding areas for outdoor living space to suit your needs with our consultancy, design and building services , you need not look any where else.
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The term hard landscape is a combination of architecture and garden design to describe the construction materials which are used to improve a landscape by design. The corresponding term soft landscape materials is used to describe plant materials. A wide range of hard landscape materials can be used, such as brick, gravel, rock or stone, concrete, timber, bitumen, glass, metals, etc. 'Hard landscape' can also describe outdoor furniture and other landscape products.
Hard landscaping is about patios, garden walls, paths, driveways, the laying of slabs for greenhouses or sheds, and water features. Any garden features that involve the use of rocks or concrete would be placed in this classification.
At WG Landscapes we provide advance thought and good planning. Your garden is an extension to your house and a great living space that with the right planning will provide you with a great place to relax and play, leave this to us to discuss with you prior to construction.
WG Landscapes are happy to liaise with the customer over the design of your garden, whether it be at the front or back of their house. Incorporating your ideas and the ideas of myself, Walter Gibbs who can put forward suggestions that have either been used in the past or we can design your garden from fresh ideas.
We try and meet every customers personal needs and requirements so their patio or driveway is designed to their specific tastes. Plus WG Landscapes can provide designs and plans for customers with blank canvases to work with. To view some examples visit our portfolio.
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Watford is in Hertfordshire, situated 20 miles northwest of central London. The nearby areas of Bushey, Rickmansworth, Chorleywood, Kings Langley, Abbots Langley and South Oxhey, located in Three Rivers and Hertsmere districts.
Watford stands on a low hill near the point at which the River Colne was forded by travellers between London and the Midlands. This route, originally a pre-Roman trackway, departed from the ancient Roman Watling Street at Stanmore, heading for the Gade valley and thence up the Bulbourne valley to a low and easily traversed section of the Chiltern Hills near Tring.
The ford was close to the later site of the old gas works, now the car park of the Tesco Extra store. The town probably originated in Saxon times as a string of houses on the northern side of this ford.
It is generally agreed that the town is named after the ford, but the origin of the first part of the name is uncertain. Theories include the Old English words wat (wet), wadan (wade), watul (wattle, a fence) or wath (hunter), Watling Street, and a hypothetical Saxon landowner called "Wata".
Watford is first mentioned in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 1007. It does not get a mention by name in the Domesday Book, but was included in the entry for the then more important settlement of Cashio which stood half a mile away at the crossroads of the St Albans road and Hempstead road.
The settlement's location helped it to grow, since as well as trade along this north-south through route it possessed good communications into the vale of St Albans to the east and into the Chiltern Hills along the valley of the River Chess to the west. In 1100 Henry I granted a charter to Watford to hold a weekly market.
The Sparrows Herne turnpike was established in 1762 to improve the route across the Chilterns, with the road maintained from charges levied at toll houses along the way. The location of a toll house can be seen at the bottom of Chalk Hill on the Watford side of Bushey Arches close to the Wickes hardware store; set in an old flint stone wall is a Sparrows Herne Trust plaque.
Above information sourced from various local history sites with special thanks to Wikipedia