Offley
Sign in to saveOffley 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 se
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Offley
- UK place.static_image
- Village sign, Offley.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Offley village sign with Green Man public house behind to left
- UK place.static_image_width
- 240px
- UK place.population
- 1,646
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.shire_district
- North Hertfordshire
- UK place.shire_county
- Hertfordshire
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Hitchin and Harpenden
- UK place.post_town
- HITCHIN
- UK place.postcode_area
- SG
- UK place.postcode_district
- SG5
- UK place.post_town1
- LUTON
- UK place.postcode_area1
- LU
- UK place.postcode_district1
- LU2
- UK place.dial_code
- 01462
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Article
15 sectionsContents
- Great Offley
- Little Offley
- Cockernhoe
- Tea Green
- Putteridge Bury
- Landscape
- Chiltern Way
- Governance
- Offley at War 1939 - 1945
- Lancaster bomber crash
- Glebe Farm Explosion
- Population
- Sport and recreation
- References
- External links
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.
==Great Offley== Great Offley lies on the top of a chalk escarpment ridge (521 ft/159 metres above sea level) in the centre of the parish (the most north eastern ridge of the Chiltern Hills). Road signs and Ordnance Survey maps call the village Great Offley, but the Royal Mail just uses Offley in postal addresses.