A History of the Russell Farm Estate

Information Sources, Russell Farm Estate

Maps

July 28, 2025

The Historic England site has over 400,000 digitised photos from their aerial photo collections of over 6 million photographs preserved in the Historic England Archive. Some of them include part of the Russell Farm Estate area.

1947

An aerial photograph of the Russels Estate 10April 1947 from Historic England Archive RAF Photography

1952

1936

Looking towards the Housing Development at Garston and Kingswood with the Estate and Russell Lane bottom centre.

If you go to the National Library of Scotland site you can view a number of old detailed maps for the area.

You can also compare the old maps with the current layout. For example this view shows the 6″ OS map from 1888-1915 against the current aerial view.

Maps are also available at the Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies.

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Russell Farm House

The Original Building The mansion was built to a design by Thomas Wright in 1753

The Lodges

The Lodges Russell’s Estate was one of the three large estates in the area centred

The Estate Boundaries

Historical Development of Watford “New development was linked with the construction of the new distributor

Russells House as it is now

The Grade 2 listed Russells House, Watford, still exists – but now as a set of flats and dwellings. It is set in grounds facing Greenbank Road, and its history goes back to 1753, and earlier.

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Introduction

17th Century Touleys/Tooleys

18th Century – The Capel (Essex) Family