Great Offley

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Great Offley

Total population

1,400

Coordinates51.93°, -0.34°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Offley is a civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. The main village is Great Offley, also known as Offley, which stands on a ridge of high ground. The parish covers most of the area between the towns of Hitchin to the east and Luton to the west. The northern part of the parish lies within the designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty of the Chiltern Hills. The parish also includes numerous hamlets, including Little Offley, Cockernhoe, and Tea Green. At the western end of the parish, adjoining the edge of Luton, is the Putteridge Bury estate which now serves as a campus of the University of Bedfordshire. The parish had a population of 1,646 at the 2021 census.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

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Stuart Lewis-Evans

racecar driver (1930-1958)

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Arthur Hailey

British-Canadian writer

Henry Bessemer

British engineer (1813-1898)

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Peter Taylor

British botanist (1926-2011)

Martin McCarrick

British musician

Robert Hawkes

English footballer (1880-1945)

Paul Young

English musician (born 1956)

Gavin Shuker

British politician (born 1981)

Jernade Meade

British association football player (born 1992)

Kevin Foley

Irish footballer

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Chris Gauthier

British actor (1976–2024)

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Joanna Dunham

English actress (1936-2014)

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John Badham

British-born American film director

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Anthony Butterworth

British immunologist

Kerry McCarthy

British politician (born 1965)

Neil Jackson

English actor, singer, musician and writer

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in England

• Flitwick
  8.4 mi away
• Ampthill
  9.6 mi away
• Berkhamsted
  15.1 mi away
• Kings Langley
  15.6 mi away
• Tring
  16.6 mi away
• Hoddesdon
  18.2 mi away · pop. 20,000
• Borehamwood
  19.1 mi away
• Berden
  20.3 mi away
• Cheshunt
  20.4 mi away
• Amersham
  20.9 mi away
• Waltham Cross
  21.3 mi away
• Bishop's Stortford
  21.9 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Great Offley

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers