Editing Elstree (section)

=== Road links ===
The old [[A5 road (Great Britain)|A5 road]] ([[Watling Street]]) goes through Elstree village, where it is designated as the [[A5183 road]]. Through the village, the road is called (from south to north) Elstree Hill South, High Street and Elstree Hill North. The 18th century Grade II listed building, Elstree Hill House, is still on Elstree Hill South, and used to be the home of the old [[Elstree School]] (see Schools). In the early 1900s, it was noted that:
:".. the hill roads are remarkably direct and seldom curve to avoid the steep pitch, and it has been suggested that the roads were originally slides for the timber which used to be sent to London for fuel."<ref>'[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43292&strquery=elstree Parishes: Elstree]', A History of the County of Hertford: volume 2 (1908), pp. 349–351. Date accessed: 20 September 2011. Refers to "Middlesex and Herts Notes and Queries, ii, 190"</ref>