Rickmansworth Skip Hire | Rickmansworth Waste Recycling | Rickmansworth Licensed Waste Carriers

Stevenage Skip Hire have been taking good care of our customers for many years now. Whatever your waste requirements may be, Stevenage Skip Hire have the perfect size skip to match the job in hand. Don't forget, we supply skips for commercial or domestic clients, recycle waste, sort out the skip permits and are Environment Agency approved. Stevenage Skip Hire operate a same day skip drop off and collection service throughout Rickmansworth. Our skip hire prices are very competitive, so call us today!

Rubbish attracts rats. Skips hire in Rickmansworth is the solution

Many people believe that rodents are attracted to properties where there is a ready supply of waste food that has been put out for the birds to eat. This is certainly true, and even regular birdseed will attract rats and mice alike, but food is not the only attraction for these furry little pests.

A build up of rubbish is a haven for rodents to set up home, and if you don't want to share your Rickmansworth home with rodents, a hired skip is the perfect solution to the problem.

Rodents are rather nervous and like to avoid human contact, therefore they love anywhere that offers them solitude and protection from us and our pets. Wood piles, compost heaps and messy sheds and garages are a magnet for rodents.

It should be remembered that rodents are able to squeeze through very small gaps, enabling them to gain access to all but the tightest sealed constructions. Because of this, many garages and sheds have mice and sometimes rats getting in, and if you have piles of waste stored inside, it's only a matter of time before you'll be getting some tiny lodgers move in.

A skip hired from us will enable you to clear the decks of rubbish and this will leave nowhere for the little critters to nest in comfort. A shed or garage without lots of hiding places is not very appealing to them,

The name of Rickmansworth

The name Rickmansworth comes from the Saxon name Ryckmer, the local landowner, and worth meaning a farm or stockade. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as the Manor of Prichemaresworde. There are many other old English spellings of the modern day Rickmansworth that date from the year 1119, up to the year 1418.

History of Rickmansworth

There was a settlement in the Rickmansworth part of the Colne Valley during the Stone Age. Rickmansworth was one of five manors with which the great Abbey of St Albans had been endowed when founded in 793 by King Offa of Mercia. Local tithes supported the abbey, which provided clergy to serve the people until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 under the English Sovereign King Henry VIII. Around the time of the Domesday Book, the population of Rickmansworth may have been about two hundred.

Cardinal Wolsey and Rickmansworth

King Henry VII bestowed many properties and gifts to his close friend and ally Cardinal Wolsey until he fell from the favour of this fickle king. In the Cardinals capacity as Abbot of St Albans, held the Manor of le More in the valley. The manor house was replaced by the hill-top mansion Moor Park, which eventually became the residence of Admiral Lord Anson, who commissioned Capability Brown to remake the formal gardens, and in 1828 of the Barons Ebury; it is now the Golf Club House. The wider area, including Croxley Green, Moor Park, Batchworth, Mill End, West Hyde and Chorleywood, formed the original parish of Rickmansworth.

In 1851, the population of Rickmansworth had grown to 4,800, and the parish was divided. St Mary's Church serves the parish concentrated in Rickmansworth and extending to Batchworth and parts of Moor Park. Rickmansworth had a population of 14,571 recorded at the 2001 census.

Trade based on the three rivers of Rickmansworth

The three rivers, the Colne, Chess and Gade, provided water for the prosperous watercress trade and much needed power for corn milling, silk weaving, and paper making and brewing, sadly all these trades are long gone from Rickmansworth. Other industries have included leather-tanning, soft drinks, laundry, straw-plaiting and stocking production. Now, the rivers, canal and flooded gravel pits provide for recreation for the local people and visitors to Rickmansworth in the form of sailing and fishing.

West Mill, a water mill, existed at the time of the Domesday Survey. It was leased to the abbot and convent of St Albans by Ralph Bukberd for a term of years ending in 1539. In 1533, they leased it from the end of this term for twenty-six years to Richard Wilson of Watford. He was to keep in repair the mill and also two millstones. The mill was leased in 1544 to William Hutchinson, yeoman of the spicery, and Janet his wife for the remainder of their lives. It afterwards came to John Wilson, and was granted in 1576 to Richard Master. There was also a water-mill called Batchworth Mill, and a fishery called Blacketts Mill in Rickmansworth. Batchworth Mill was later used as a cotton mill, but was bought in 1820 by John Dickinson & Co., and converted into paper mills, now the site of Affinity Water. Scotsbridge Mill was also productive but is now a restaurant with the unusual feature of a salmon run. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries many of the principal inhabitants were described as "clothiers", from which it may be inferred that the manufacture of cloth was at one time carried on in Rickmansworth, but this industry has long since ceased. There were also silk and flock mills here, described in 1808 as recently built.

Water wars in Rickmansworth

A very long-running dispute over water levels in the Batchford area, following construction of the Grand Junction Canal, was resolved in 1825, when an obelisk that was over eight foot long was erected in a pond, to act as a water gauge. It records the agreement made between the canal company, John Dickinson the miller at Batchworth Mill, and R. Williams of Moor Park the landowner.

Rail travel come to Rickmansworth

In July 1860, Lord Ebury obtained powers to construct a stretch of single-track railway line. This was to become the Watford and Rickmansworth Railway between Rickmansworth and Watford. Opening in October 1862, Rickmansworth railway station was opposite the parish church of St Mary, with interchange sidings to the Grand Union Canal. The line had stations at Watford Junction and Watford High Street and a depot in Watford. A further Parliamentary authorisation was obtained a year later to construct an extension from Rickmansworth to connect with the Great Western Railway's Uxbridge branch, but this endeavour never came to fruition.

Despite hopes that the railway would bring economic development and serve the factories and warehouses that had developed along the Grand Union Canal in Rickmansworth, it was Watford that grew at a faster pace and drew business from neighbouring Rickmansworth. The railway was dogged with financial problems and a further Act of Parliament in 1863 authorised the issue of further shares to the value of £30,000. The service consisted of five trains each way. The line was worked from the outset by the London and North Western Railway, which paid the Watford and Rickmansworth Railway fifty percent of the gross earnings.

The railway was never financially successful and the Official Receiver was called in four years after opening. The company attempted to remedy its financial problems by opening several freight branches, the most notable being to the Croxley printers and to the Grand Union Canal at Croxley Green. The company was absorbed by the burgeoning LNWR whose station it shared at Watford Junction in 1881.

Rickmansworth grew dramatically during the Victorian era and in the 1920s and 1930s as part of Metro-land, due to the extension of Metropolitan Railway, Rickmansworth became a commuter town.

So, if you live in or around the Rickmansworth area and want to keep your home rodent free, why not consider hiring a skip from us?

The hiring process is so simple and will enable you to clear all your piles of waste in one fell swoop, leaving nowhere for rodents to set up home in the first place.

Some of the services Stevenage Skip Hire provide in, and around, Rickmansworth:

• Skip Hire
• Waste Recycling
• Waste Management
• Envirowaste Recycling Centre
• Waste Disposal
• Domestic and Commercial Skip Hire
• Licensed Waste Carriers
• Environment Agency Approved
• Skip Permits Arranged
• Same Day Drop Off and Collection
• Aggregates For Sale

Further Information

If you would like to know more or are interested in a quote we would be happy to help. Phone us on 0203 780 2277, email us at info@stevenageskiphire.co.uk or fill in our contact form and we will be in touch as soon as possible.

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