Norton Common is a 25.7-hectare park and Local Nature Reserve in the centre of Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. It is owned and managed by North Hertfordshire District Council, and the declaring authority is Hertfordshire County Council. The common has diverse wildlife including wildflowers in meadows, and black squirrel, muntjac deer, and birds such as chiffchaff and blackcap in woodland.
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Pix Brook is a chalk stream in England that flows in a northerly and westerly direction through Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire and Stotfold in Bedfordshire to the River Ivel north of Arlesey. It is both urban and rural in character.
Pix Brook is 7.931 kilometres in length. When measured in 2022, the brook had a moderate ecological status. Its hydromorphological designation is 'heavily modified', meaning it fails to achieve good ecological status owing to significant man-made alterations to its natural physical character. Environment Agency data gives the Pix Brook a catchment area of 15.505 square kilometres. It is one of twenty water bodies making up the Ivel Operational Catchment. A study published in the mid-1990s described Pix Brook as a shallow stream over a bed of coarse-grained calcareous gravel and sand, noting its 'relatively steep' gradient fall of 2.8 metres per km in comparison to the less than 1 metre per km fall of the River Ivel.
The Letchworth Sewage Treatment Works operated by Anglian Water discharges treated waste water into Pix Brook.
In Letchworth the brook is culverted through Howard Park, and the roadway of Rushby Mead bordering the eastern edge of the park follows the curves of the brook. At Norton Common local nature reserve mineral-rich springs supply the brook. Pix brook is a part of the great Ouse catchment as well in the [river Ivel] catchment it is in Hertfordshire and ends in Bedfordshire
Colloquially known as 'Dudleys Ditch' the river is the reason why local school Etonbury Academy got the prefix 'eton'. A school named Pix Brook Academy was initially based at Etonbury Academy from 2019 but a year later moved to newly constructed facilities in Stotfold.
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St George's Church is an Anglican church of modern design in the Parish of Norton in Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire. The building was completed in 1964. It has an arrow-shaped plan and a 120-foot concrete spire. The congregation is seated in a semi-circle facing the altar. The church building is in the style of the Liturgical Movement following World War II. It was Grade II listed in 2015 for "its striking architectural form, expressed through a diverse range of materials to provide an innovative building of real quality both in composition and detailing."
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Letchworth Garden City station serves the town of Letchworth in Hertfordshire, England. The station is on the Cambridge Line 34 miles 50 chains north of London King's Cross, and is a stop for services between King's Cross and Cambridge. Trains which serve the station are operated by Great Northern and Thameslink.
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Norton School was a secondary school in Letchworth, Hertfordshire that was founded in 1905 and which closed in 2002 following a period of being in special measures. It has since been partially demolished and redeveloped as a collection of housing and apartments by Miller Homes.
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Howard Park and Gardens is a public recreation ground in Letchworth, in Hertfordshire, England, laid out when the garden city of Letchworth was created. It is listed Grade II in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens.
The Pix Brook, which is fed by mineral-rich springs, provides areas of marshland. Facilities provided at the Common include an outdoor swimming pool, bowling green, tennis courts and a skateboard arena. There is access from Icknield Way.
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