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Borehamwood (ˌbɔərəmˈwʊd, historically also Boreham Wood) is a town in southern Hertfordshire, England, from Charing Cross. Borehamwood has a population of 36,322, and is within the London commuter belt. The town's film and TV studios are commonly known as Elstree Studios. One of the earliest mentions of Bosci de Boreham (Wood of Boreham), is in 1188: "In 1188 Pope Clement granted to the kitchen of the monastery the whole land of Elstree. He also gave to the Abbey the wood of Boreham for the feeding of the swine." In 1776, the House of Lords granted: "An Act for dividing and closing the Common or Waste Ground, called Boreham Wood Common, in the Parish of Elstree otherwise Idletree, in the County of Hertford." Borehamwood was historically part of the parish of Elstree. A separate ecclesiastical parish of "All Saints, Boreham Wood" was created on 26 February 1909, covering the part of Elstree parish east of the Midland Railway. Despite this change to the ecclesiastical boundaries, Borehamwood remained part of the civil parish of Elstree. The name of the civil parish was changed to Elstree and Borehamwood on 24 February 1982. The ecclesiastical parishes of Borehamwood and Elstree were reunited on 1 April 2005, also under the name "Elstree and Borehamwood". From the 1920s onwards, the town became known as one of the main centres of the UK film, and later television, industries due to the presence of production studios. Following the Second World War, the town's population greatly increased, with large areas of council housing set up for displaced Londoners, many of which are now in private ownership. Fast train connections to central London have resulted in the town becoming a primarily residential suburb. In 1946, the Admiralty started to build highly secret high-performance electronic digital computers at Borehamwood in a redundant wartime factory, firstly for the purpose of real-time gunnery control, and later for surface-to-air guided weapons and missiles, and for specialist cryptography and code-breaking computers for GCHQ.

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Borehamwood

Borehamwood (ou plus exactement Elstree et Borehamwood) est une ville du Hertfordshire méridional, dans la banlieue londonienne. Elle fait partie du borough de Hertsmere, et possède un Conseil local des villes, d'Elstree et de Borehamwood. La ville est desservie par la gare ferroviaire d'Elstree & Borehamwood sur la ligne First Capital Connect (précédemment Thameslink) (entre Londres et Bedford). La même ligne ferroviaire est employée par Midland Mainline entre la gare de Londres Saint-Pancras et Nottingham, bien que ces trains ne s'arrêtent pas à cette gare.

Elstree

Elstree ˈɛlztri is a large village in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire, England. It is about northwest of central London on the former A5 road, that follows the course of Watling Street. In 2011, its population was 5,110. It forms part of the civil parish of Elstree and Borehamwood, originally known simply as Elstree. The village often lends its shorter name to businesses and amenities in the adjacent town of Borehamwood, and the names of Elstree and Borehamwood are used interchangeably.

St Albans

St Albans est la principale ville de la Cité de St Albans dans le Sud du Hertfordshire, en Angleterre, à 35 km environ au nord de Londres. Elle est, sous le nom de Verulanium ou Verulamium, la première cité édifiée le long de la voie romaine allant vers le nord de la Bretagne (Watling Street). Sous la domination saxonne, une abbaye voisine, qui prend le relais de la ville chrétienne désormais abandonnée, est nommée Verlamchester ou Wæclingacaester, avant que l'ensemble prenne le nom anglo-normand générique de St Albans.