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HONOUR OF THE MEN OF / ASHWELL WHO FOUGHT IN THE / GREAT WAR AND IN LOVING / MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL / OUR GLORIOUS DEAD" then some names then the inscription "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE". The south side bears the date "1914" and more names, and the north side bears the date "1919" and yet more names. Further names were inscribed on the podium later to record the war dead from the Second World War. It bears 42 names in all.
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war cross, standing on a square plinth and podium, on a circular stone base of only two steps rather than the usual three, surrounded by grass. The memorial is raised above the road junction by a stone retaining wall with a flight of six steps. The cross bears several inscriptions: to the front "IN
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1176:East Hertfordshire
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945:Hunton Park
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1725:52°02′35″N
1142:Rex Cinema
1074:Broxbourne
1001:Ayot House
549:Broxbourne
430:Verulamium
247:Balls Park
178:Broxbourne
89:References
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1550:Stevenage
1449:St Albans
1440:Stagenhoe
1334:Wall Hall
1272:Hertsmere
1042:Stevenage
978:The Grove
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1147:Rossway
1095:Dacorum
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167:Grade I
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