Box Moor Trust
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| Motto | Your Land, Your Heritage, Your Future. |
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| Formation | 1594 |
| Legal status | Trust |
| Purpose | The sustainable management of agricultural and amenity land extending to 487 acres of moors, commons, woodland and grassland and provision of environmental education facilities for the use and enjoyment of the residents and youth of the area of benefit of Hemel Hempstead and Bovingdon. |
| Headquarters | Boxmoor, Hertfordshire |
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Region served
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Hemel Hempstead & Bovingdon |
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Key people
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David Kirk (Chairman) |
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Main organ
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Board of trustees |
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Staff
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12 |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 51°44′37″N 0°30′23″W / 51.74361°N 0.50639°W
The Box Moor Trust is a charitable trust responsible for the management of nearly 500 acres of land within the parishes of Hemel Hempstead and Bovingdon, in Hertfordshire, England. The Trust was officially founded in 1594 in order to ensure that the land in the Boxmoor area remained free for residents to use and enjoy. As a result almost all of the land that comprises the Box Moor Trust estate is open access, with just over a quarter being common land.
In 1574 Queen Elizabeth I gifted certain Hertfordshire lands to the Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, some of the grounds in question had once formed the estate of the Monastery of Ashridge. Robert Dudley did not keep hold of the lands for very long as, on 11 May, 1574 he sold them to Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford and Peter Graye of Segenhoe, Bedfordshire. Peter Graye subsequently acquired both shares of the property, and passed them down to his son, Richard Grey. It was from Richard Grey that Yeomen John Rolfe and William Gladman, as well as Landlord and Shoemaker Richard Pope acquired the lands for £75 on 26 May, 1581. They had feared the common land would be enclosed and townspeople would be denied grazing rights: the price had been raised by secret public subscription.
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