Croxley

 

Croxley Green has a large village green surrounded by some of its oldest buildings (17th century) including the Croxley Green Windmill. Croxley Mill was built in 1830 adjacent to the Grand Union Canal by the paper manufacturer John Dickinson.[1] Croxley Script stationery used to be produced there by John Dickinson and Co. Ltd. but is now a trade mark registered to Sappi (U.K.) Limited. Streets in Croxley (Dickinson Square, Dickinson Avenue, Barton Way and others) are named after Mill owners and management and some contain housing built by the company for mill workers at the end of the 19th Century. On 2nd November 1925 the station opened as "Croxley Green" on the Metropolitan Railway's extension to Watford from both Rickmansworth and Moor Park and then on 23 May 1949 the station was renamed "Croxley".

 

It should be noted that there is a station, long closed but with plans afoot to reopen, called Croxley Green. However, the village of Croxley Green is closer to the station now called Croxley than to the defunct station called Croxley Green. Very confusing. It is in Travelcard Zone 7. The station is situated on the corner of Watford Road and Winton Drive in Croxley Green. Ticket hall improvements will start to take place from September 2015, when the ticket office in this station closes. Work will last for up to four weeks. To pay for travel, you can now: . Use your contactless payment card . Use the smarter ticket machines or . Buy tickets or top up your Oyster card online or at nearby Oyster Ticket Stops. The station has toilets, a car park, payphones and a waiting room.

 

Connections: No buses serve the station.

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