North Mymms is a civil parish

Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 in the English county of Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

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The village itself has suffered from enclosure

Enclosure

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. North Mimms Park and Brookmans Park

Brookmans Park

Brookmans Park is a village, located in the civil parish of North Mymms, in Hertfordshire, southeast England. It is well known for its varied and interesting local history, including an ancient historic estate that used to exist within its boundaries, its BBC transmitter station, and excellent...

enclose large areas of the parish. Even the parish church (St Mary's) stands in the park of North Mimms; in it is a chapel, the burialplace of the Coningsbys. There is a monument to Robert Knolles, also of North Mimms Place, of the date 1458. There is also a brass to a priest. There is a large monument to Lord Somers, Baron Evesham, and lord chancellor in the time of William III., d. 1716. The monument was erected by his sister, Lady Jekyl t
The civil parish includes:

• North Mimms Place: The Jacobean
  Jacobean architecture
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   house of 1599 belonged to the Coningsby family. During the ownership of Thomas Coningsby
  Thomas Coningsby
  Sir Thomas Coningsby was an English soldier and Member of Parliament, notable for his diary of military action in France in 1591.-Birth:...
  
  , a Royalist leader in Hertfordshires, the house was plundered by the Parliamentarians. Later North Mimms Park belonged to the Hyde family http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/places/north-mimms.htm. The house is famous for its collection of tapestry
  Tapestry
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   and for its panelling and fittings, and for the rediscovery of the unique early 17th-century painted frieze of the "Nine Worthies
  Nine Worthies
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North Mymms House is credited in filming the 1983 period piece "The Wicked Lady" featuring Faye Dunaway as an bored lady aristocrat whom takes up highway robbery with an original score by Tony Banks of Genesis.

• Bell Bar
  Bell Bar
  Bell Bar is a village located in North Mymms, Hertfordshire, England.Thought to be named after the ancient Bell Inn which stood nearby, Bell Bar was a cluster of dwellings around this coaching inn on the Great North Road which used to pass through Bell Bar along what is now called Bell Lane...
  
  

• Brookmans Park
  Brookmans Park
  Brookmans Park is a village, located in the civil parish of North Mymms, in Hertfordshire, southeast England. It is well known for its varied and interesting local history, including an ancient historic estate that used to exist within its boundaries, its BBC transmitter station, and excellent...
  
  : The park includes the former park of Gobions (demolished) once the property of Sir Thomas More
  Thomas More
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  . A lofty castellated gateway in the park is now called "The Folly". In 1956 North Mymms Parish Council acquired the land and the lake now known as Gobions Open Space.

• Water End

• Welham Green
  Welham Green
  Welham Green is a village in the parish of North Mymms, Hertfordshire, England. It is situated a mile to the west of the Great North Road coaching route that used to run through the neighbouring hamlet of Bell Bar from London to York and the north. The Great North Road is now by-passed by the A1...
  
  

External links

• Brookmans Park Newsletter Award-winning community website.
• Newsletter's Local History Section More than 20 complete books and 40 features about North Mymms.
• Local History Forum Discussion area about North Mymms history.
• Parish Council
• North Mymms and South Mimms (A Guide to Old Hertfordshire)
• North Mimms or Mymms
• Peter Kingsford, "A history of the Gobions"
• AFC Mymms Football Club
• North Mymms Cricket Club