Ayot St Lawrence

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Ayot St Lawrence is a small English village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, Template:Convert west of Welwyn.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> There are several other Ayots in the area, including Ayot Green and Ayot St Peter, where the census population of Ayot St Lawrence was included in 2011.

Heritage

George Bernard Shaw lived in the village, at Shaw's Corner, from 1906 until his death in 1950; his ashes are scattered there.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The house is open to the public as a National Trust property.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Other residents of the village included Shaw's friend, neighbour and bibliographer Stephen Winsten (1893–1991) and his wife, the artist Clare Winsten (1894–1989).

During the 1950s, the silk-maker Zoe Dyke (1896–1975) moved her business to Ayot House.<ref name=zoe>John Martin, "Dyke, (Millicent) Zoë, Lady Dyke (1896–1975)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 accessed 12 July 2017</ref> The historical novelist, biographer and children's writer Carola Oman, Lady Lenanton (1897–1978) lived at Bride Hall with her husband. She died there on 11 June 1978.<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>

Amenities

The village has a timber-framed public house, The Brocket Arms, which may date back to the early 16th century.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It also offers meals and accommodation.<ref name="Brocketarms">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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The old Norman church, in March 2010

The village has two churches:

• Old St Lawrence Church, in the centre of the village, was partially demolished in 1775, because it was obstructing the view from Sir Lionel Lyde's new home.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Field Marshal Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan (1865–1946), a British Army officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff, is buried in the churchyard.<ref name="cwgc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}CWGC casualty record.</ref>

• New St Lawrence Church was designed in a neo-classical style by Nicholas Revett<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Gallery

• Shaw's Corner
  Shaw's Corner
• Ruins of the old Church
  Ruins of the old Church

External links

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