Newgate Street, Hertfordshire Explained

Country:England
Coordinates:51.7286°N -0.1164°W
Static Image:St Mary, Newgate Street, Herts - geograph.org.uk - 355383.jpg
Static Image Width:250px
Static Image Caption:Ponsbourne St Mary's Church, Newgate Street
Official Name:Newgate Street
Shire District:Welwyn Hatfield
Shire County:Hertfordshire
Region:East of England
Constituency Westminster:Welwyn Hatfield
Post Town:HERTFORD
Postcode District:SG13
Postcode Area:SG
Dial Code:01707
Os Grid Reference:TL305045

Newgate Street is a village near Cuffley, in Hatfield civil parish, in the Welwyn Hatfield district of Hertfordshire, England. It is approximately six miles south-west of Hertford and has a population of 400. At the 2011 Census the population was included in the town of Hatfield.

The village has an Anglican church, a school (Ponsbourne St Mary's), a restaurant (The Gables), two pubs (The Crown and The Coach and Horses) and a hotel (Ponsbourne Park Hotel). There is also a small town hall and two outdoor tennis courts.Originally in the Manor of Tolmers, the present Tolmers Park House dates from 1761. Since World War I it has been used as a military hospital, a girls' boarding school, a geriatric hospital and has now been converted to luxury apartments. Part of the estate became Tolmers Scout Camp in 1940. The house lies just to the South-West of the village.

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