This brief descriptive history has been researched and written by David Harding and was produced by The Friends of Croxley Great Barn in association with The Three Rivers Museum Trust: The Rickmansworth Historical Society: Secretary Ann Vernau, who have provided assistance, information and some archive photographs. Any corrections, amendments and additions will be most welcome. (To: inform@croxleygreatbarn.co.uk)

Photographers and others have been individually credited where known but we are in addition greatly obliged to the following for information, advice and permission to use writings or photographs:

Dr Martin Bridge, Stephen Castle, Heather Falvey, Mary Forsyth, Adrian Gibson, Len Leach, Roger Miles, English Heritage National Monument Record Centre, and finally the Master and Fellows of Gonville & Caius College and their archivist Gemma Bentley.

This is a private web site run by David Harding and is a repository for information from all sources.

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1793 P Newcome, The History of the Abbey of St Albans p 286

1870 E J Cussans, History of Herts. p 130

1904 D Moul & F G Kitton, Picturesque Hertfordshire p 33

1908 Victorian County History Vol 2 pp 379, 400

1910 Royal Commission on Historic Monuments-Herts. p 171-2

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1953 Nikolaus Pevsner, Hertfordshire (Penguin, 1977) pp 58, 135

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2003 Mary Forsyth, SW Herts. Archaeology Bulletin No 78 pp 25-6

2003 Yesterday-today [Journal of Three Rivers Museum Trust] No.33, pp.8-9

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6/2003 D Harding, An Introduction to Croxley Great Barn (1st Edn), 12pp.

2004 Yesterday-today [Journal of Three Rivers Museum Trust] No.34, p.14

2/2005 Scurr & Partners, Croxley Great Barn - Feasibility Report, 90pp.

11/2005 R M Crump Ltd, Report on General Condition of Croxley Great Barn, 14pp.