Garston, Hertfordshire

Garston, Hertfordshire

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 51.6894
longitude= -0.3845
official_name= Garston
population = 20'417 (ONS Census 2001)
shire_district=Watford
shire_county = Hertfordshire
region= East of England
constituency_westminster= Watford
post_town= WATFORD
postcode_district = WD25
postcode_area= WD
dial_code= 01923
os_grid_reference= TL116002

Garston is a village in Hertfordshire, England, more or less contiguous with Watford and now, despite retaining a fiercely strong local identity, is effectively, a suburb. It is within the Stanborough, Woodside, and Meriden wards of Watford borough although a small number of its streets are within Hertsmere borough.

Watford's main out-of-town leisure park, Woodside Leisure Park, is in Garston on the A405 Kingsway road. It features a Vue cinema, Hollywood Bowl 10-pin bowling lane, two restaurants -- Chiquito and Frankie & Benny's and A children's indoor activity zone.

Garston is home to the British Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and the West Herts Crematorium at Garston is the principal facility for non-burial funerals in the West Hertfordshire area, serving Watford, St Albans and Hemel Hempstead.

The Building Research Establishment (BRE) is on Bucknalls Lane, Garston, just on the border with Bricket Wood.

Garston is home to several large secondary schools serving the broader Watford area. The largest of these are St. Michael's Catholic High School, Parmiter's School and Francis Combe School and Community College.

Churches of several denominations serve the Garston area. All Saints serves the Anglican populace and Our Lady and St. Michael serves the Roman Catholic population. The church of the nazerene on woodside serves the watford area with one of the countries largest nazerene churches.

It also has its own railway station, as well as an Arriva bus garage.


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