Anyone read this place name?

[Keith Bateman]

Hi All,

Can anyone read this place name in Hertfordshire?

I have found 3 Halls in the county: Clothall; Shephall; Kelshall but it looks like none of them!

Cheers

Keith

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi Keith,

If you put Luffenhall (my guess) in Google, there are various sites for Luffenhall, Hertfordshire

For instance, this says

Luffenhall Town or Village (Town) has an area of 3 hectares ( .01 Sq.Miles).

and has a link to a map
http://enquire.hertscc.gov.uk/profiles/aggsetSum.cfm?matchID=333&matchID2=271

Bob

[Watermusic]

It's Luffenhall - between Stevenage and Buntingford, near Hall's Green.

My usual trick is to look for the town/village  and then tick on maps - local area.

Cheers
Watermusic

[Keith Bateman]

Thanks Bob - they must have appeared over Christmas - or was that wine better than I thought!!  

I put it into Multimap - and it came up with nothing sensible - thanks Watermusic

Cheers

Keith

[JAP]

Hello Keith,

A search for Luffenhall on Old Maps at:
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
meets with success.

On Multimap, it is there but isn't indexed.  Search for Cromer then zoom to 1:50,000 or 1:25,000 and it can be seen.

JAP

[Keith Bateman]

Hi Jap,

Thanks for that reminder - the number of people I have sent to Old Maps - but as I couldn't find it on the index in multimap - I didn't know where to look! 

I thought it was Luffenhall - but wondered if the "ff" was infact "ss"  but still couldn't find either on GENUKI - usually find most places on there - must be getting lazy, so thought I would keep you people on their toes - which of course didn't even make a ripple in the sea of mystery.

Thanks again for all your help - will put "near Cottered" in my software for others to find!!

Cheers

Keith

[JAP]

Hi Keith,

Good thinking!  Putting 'near Cromer' might send them off on a wild goose chase to the seaside!

I find that Multimap's index is quite incomplete vis-a-vis the names which actually appear in their maps.  If I have some idea where a place might be, I usually look up a bigger town/village which can be found, zoom in to 1:25,000, and then scroll around searching.  Their maps at that scale are great and often seem to include even obscure farm names.

JAP

[loo]

sometimes streetmap.co.uk is better than multimap.  I always try them both, and streetmap is better more often.

[JAP]

Hi loo,

True!  And I've been using streetmap more recently - but stupidly didn't this time.

If one enters luffenhall in street map it goes immediately to a map identical to the 1:25,000 one found with some difficulty on multimap ...

JAP