Has anyone ever heard of "Watton-on-stone"?

[Marls001]

It's an area in the UK - or it was; may have changed names in the last 2 centuries ...

Not quite sure how to spell it either: could have been Watten-on-stone ...

It's here in Hertfordshire. Nice little area I've heard.

Its Watton on stone in Herts IIRC

Yes, I am going there this evening! Why?

It's in Hertfordshire between Hertford & Stevenage. Nice enough place, very small from what I remember.

Just google map'd it. It's Watton at Stone.

It is indeed Watton at Stone, not on. Not hypthenated either.

Apparantly there was some rumour that it was supposed to have a high number of wife swapping couples there

I think a few celebs might live there too, not related to above rumour I am sure though!

And you know this how exactly Hula?

No! The wife swappers live in Tewin-another village not to far from there.

Has a great Pub there though if you are not looking for the swappers

How do I not know all this and I live in the area?

Ah, I see - duff info then.

PC - my BIL & SIL live there and have passed the info on that they have overheard there!

nah tewin is good for ghost hunting.

i believe cuffly area has a big dogging problem.

PC did you know stanborough park is a dogging area?

Twas all the Pampas Grass in the front gardens

I shall be looking out for all these places on my way down there now!

Didn't realise so many MNetters lived round there.

i'm in welwyn Garden City hula, so is personal clown

Ah, now I have been there so know that town name.

Went to Knebworth House last summer, to some country fayre type thing. DD loved the adventure playground there.

i have never taken my dd's to knebworth park, and i should really.

Yup I had heard that about Stanborough. Not surprised though.
Tewin's fab for a good ghost hunt.

misdee - the advernture park, Fort Knebworth, is really good and the two big slides are great fun - adults get to go too And all free IIRR.

Thank you & LOL at some of replies regarding contemporary Watton at Stone (and thanks for the spelling!!).

My knowledge of ancestry abruptly ends at a shoreline (like most Americans - not here). Watton at Stone was where my mother's side is from and they came to the US in mid-1700s, but I never knew where it was. Just occured to me to post it on MN ... so again, thanks!

Good luck with your history searches then

Currently at Watton this morning and it is very nice.

IIRC, there is a lovely church there that will have some brill parish records.

I was born in Datchworth, the next village to Watton at Stone - I never heard of any wife swapping - my doctor was in Watton, and his daughter was a dancer with The young Generation on the Engelbert Humperdinck Show, but that's about as racy as it gets.

I was also at Stanborough School, but Stanborough Park was thoroughly respectable back then - in fact iirc it was only created about half way through my time there, when they built the new A1.

Rusty, didn't you write a poem about me once.

Anyway for your information, when I studied databases at school they used Datchet as a guinea pig (the records were over 100 years old of course)

Oh fuck huge mistake, Sorry it was Datchworth.

UCM crawls off under a stone. I have pissed everyone off today. Might as well disappear.