gerrards cross

• what was an obstacle for development in the 1500s

  poor conditions of the English roads
• what act was introduced in 1563

  an act to increase the number of days every parishioner had to spend working on the roads from 4 to 6 days
• what development plan was put in place in 1686

  a continuing road was to be built of bull lane and across the oxford road
• what was GX a meeting place for in 1792

  hunting
• what animal was banned from being hunted in 1810

  foxes
• what railway line opened in 1838


  London to Birmingham .
• what plans were made in 1896

  the great western railway made plans to give GX a station on the new GRW line to London
• what happened in 1905

  the great western and central joint railway opened to goods traffic in gx
• what year did gx station open to passengers

  1906
• when was most of modern GX built

  1906-1914
• when was the dual carriage way in CSP built

  1960s
• what year was the m25 completed

  1986
• what is gx characterised by

  residential housing
• what were the 3 main housing development stages

  1. 1905 to 1920
  2. 1920 to 1939
  3. 1940 to present
• how many people loved in gx in 1901

  552
• how many people lived in gx in 2011

  8,017
• how many people lived in gx in 2021

  8,554
• what percentage of the demographic of GX was white in the 2021 cencus

  65.9%
• what percentage of people who lived in gx in 2021 cencus date were from the uk

  75.4
• from cencus data 2021 how many people in gx were aged 18-64

  55.6
• what was the pond on the common used for

  it was the travellers source of water and for houses
• what act came in in 1555

  every parish repair own roads parishoners each work on 4 days a a year
• what happend to roads in 1706

  the road from Bedfordshire to buckihamshire became a toll road - rich could afford to pay
• what was the bull in for and what is it now

  for cold and hungry travellers to stay it is now the bull hotel
• when was ethorpe hotel built

  1923
• what was GX railway station like when it was first built

  it has always been 2 stories
• how many workers were hired to build GX station

  1,500
• when did GX sation open to pasengers

  2nd april 1906
• fill in the blanks about train fares

  in 1910 , the return the return fare from GX to marleybone or paddington was 4s, first class and 2s , third class whilst season tickets were 20 and 12 pounds
• how much is a season ticket in gx station now

  £195.90