About Codiote
Codicote is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district, tucked into green-belt countryside about 30 miles north of London. Its history runs back at least 1,500 years, with the earliest written record dating to 1002, when King Aethelred sold the manor of "Cuthingcoton" to one of his advisors. The name itself is Saxon, referring to the "cote," or cottage, of a man called Cudda. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, the manor was valued at six pounds and owned by St Albans Abbey, which would shape the village for centuries.
The abbey laid out the medieval village deliberately, with narrow burgage plots running back from a market place. The Abbot of St Albans secured a royal charter from Henry II to hold a weekly market in 1267, followed by an annual fair in 1271, and the focus of village life shifted to the market place at the junction of High Street and St Albans Road, a spot still known today as The Hill. The Black Death struck hard in the late 1340s, killing around half the village, and Codicote folk later joined the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, with one local man, Stephen Truebody, executed for his part in it.
The parish church of St Giles, tucked down Bury Lane, has Norman roots and was dedicated between 1108 and 1115. Though largely rebuilt in 1853, it keeps 13th-century work in the nave and aisles and what is thought to be original 12th-century ironwork on the south door. The churchyard holds an unusual "leaping board" grave rail to John Gootheridge, who had to be buried twice after body snatchers dug up and abandoned his corpse. The High Street later became a turnpike road with a popular coaching inn, and in the 19th century the village supported a busy straw-plaiting trade, with local women making plaits for Luton's hat industry.
Today Codicote is a well-kept heritage village of around 3,600 people, dotted with listed buildings and surrounded by outlying hamlets including Driver's End, Nup End, Rabley Heath, and Potters Heath, along with grand houses like The Node and Codicote Lodge. It hosts an annual Village Day and keeps a strong community life. Sitting on the B656 between Hitchin, Welwyn, and Wheathampstead, it depends on country roads that make a mobile tyre service genuinely useful, reaching drivers wherever a puncture or blowout leaves them.
Codicote falls mainly within the SG4 postcode district, with its post town listed as Hitchin, while parts of the parish and its outlying hamlets fall under AL6. Our mobile tyre fitting covers the whole of the SG4 area in and around the village, including High Street, St Albans Road, Heath Lane, and The Hill, as well as the AL6 addresses on the fringes toward Welwyn and Wheathampstead. Whether you're in the village centre or out at Driver's End, Nup End, Rabley Heath, Potters Heath, or Codicote Bottom, we come to you. If you're unsure which side of the postcode boundary you sit on, just give us your address when you call and we'll confirm we cover you.
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