Great Gaddesden

Great Gaddesden /ˈɡædzdən/ is a village and civil parish in Dacorum Hundred in Hertfordshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, north of Hemel Hempstead. The parish borders Flamstead, Hemel Hempstead, Nettleden and Little Gaddesden and also Studham in Bedfordshire. The medieval convent of St Margaret's stood northwest of the village. For a while the site served as a WW2 RCAF transit camp and later a boarding school for children with special needs, and it is now a Theravadin Buddhist monastery, the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, complete with temple.

Great Gaddesden

Great Gaddesden /ˈɡædzdən/ is a village and civil parish in Dacorum Hundred in Hertfordshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, north of Hemel Hempstead. The parish borders Flamstead, Hemel Hempstead, Nettleden and Little Gaddesden and also Studham in Bedfordshire. The medieval convent of St Margaret's stood northwest of the village. For a while the site served as a WW2 RCAF transit camp and later a boarding school for children with special needs, and it is now a Theravadin Buddhist monastery, the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, complete with temple.