This page lists the businesses and significant landmarks we found in the High Street, taking each side, going southeast from the junction with Rickmansworth Road.
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The Right-Hand (Southwest) Side The Left-Hand (Northeast) Side |
Starting on Rickmansworth Road, going northeast, towards the High Street, you go round a wide, sweeping corner, passing:
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Bradford & Bingley Stimpsons, Estate Agents Hintons Pharmacy Sandwich Box Takeaway S Leonard, tailor Trimmers Instant Tanning, salon |
You're now in the High Street, going southeast
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Sharps Bedrooms Hanako, Japanese restaurant Ansells, betting shop entrance to Faircross House Crown Personnel Recruitment Agency vacant Oliver's, restaurant Hertfordshire Young Homeless Group, South Project Artichoke, pub |
| side entrance to pub |
| metal gate in wall |
Pavement dips, continuing southeast
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JSA House Bang And Olufsen Pizza et Pizza vacant vacant Young Bride and Groom, clothes hire Culverhouse, camping and outdoor SRS Microsystems Ltd. vacant vacant Moben/Dolphin, fitted kitchens and bathrooms Nationwide Building Society |
The wall retreats southwest into a recess with intermittent railings following the original line of the wall.
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Jongleurs Comedy Club Bar-Risa |
The wall juts back, part way
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Lloyds No. 51 Bar O'Neill's Music Room |
There's an overhang from O'Neill's with 2 pillars in the pavement,
the entrance to O'Neill's is between the pillars.
The wall juts back to the original line.
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vacant Inland Revenue, 2nd floor is Seetec l'artista, restaurant Chicken Gogo access road to car park Area, night club Baraka, bar restaurant The Chicago Rock Cafe Sportzacademy Walmsley's Suite Superstore Multiyork, master furniture |
There's a lamp post about 2 metres into the pavement, the wall angles away under the ring road flyover.
There's a fountain in the middle of the street, just southeast of the flyover.
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McDonald's Abbey National Abbey House, 26 The Parade, containing:
Superdrug Reliance Care, recruitment, Parade View Orthodontics Jackson Jeweller access way to Marketplace Recruitment Whitecross Dental Care Chelsea Building Society Connells, estate agent Legends, men's clothes access way to GB Employment Klick Photopoint Roosters Chicken Quest Employment Cheltenham & Gloucester Shoefayre The Moon Under Water, pub Next 2 Choice Rat & Parrot, pub, wall retreats into entrance Alliance & Leicester Office Angels, recruitment Candies, news agent Dollond & Aitchison, opticians Shoe Zone |
Wall juts out
| Maximo Cafe |
Wall retreats, several metres, phone box on southwest side in corner
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Bewise, clothes The Woolwich CMC, hair dressing Reed, employment access way Moss Bros Market Street Nat West 76 High Street, Chac Southwest Hertfordshire, AAC and Drink-Drive Rehabilitation Course Brookstreet Employment Bureau New Street, on northwest side, Imperial Garden, Chinese restaurant |
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Vodafone Agora Amusements Portman Building Society Weston, opticians Snappy Snaps Lloyds TSB access way to car park The One Bell, pub access way to Church Street |
This access way has a large, decorative island beside the main High Street. We're opposite BHS. The square, to the southwest of the High Street is St Mary's Square.
The wall juts out several metres back into the High Street. Continuing southeast.
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Delifrance, restaurant blank door Ginger Group, hair and beauty John Morley, jeweller The House of Electronics T-Mobile Kelly Services, recruitment access way |
This access way has bollards across the entrance, it leads to a seating and sculptured square in front of:
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Watford Council Advice Centre Citizens Advice Bureau Rights and Advice Centre Relate Pulvers, solicitors |
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MK One, clothes Game The Halifax vacant Flight Centre, travel |
The wall retreats southwest. Continuing southeast.
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Travel Choice Thomas Cook McDonalds corner of King Street |
There's a post with a wasp sculpture on the northwest (near) corner.
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vacant blank door Taylor's, cafe bar vacant Books Maplin Electronics Computer Exchange blank door Manpower Recruitment Cafe Mezza Oscar's Cafe and Bakery Sweetimes, news agents The Barbers Shop Group Ltd. Artisan Hair Cutters vacant The One Crown, pub |
The pavement slopes down
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Perfect Nailz access way, Crown Passage Headhunters, total grooming for men Aroma's, cafe and restaurant Potts and Bench, gift shop Conveyancing Plus, solicitors, BNA, a caring concern Best Computer Training Chinese Medical Centre Raw IT, computer recruitment Lawton Prior & Mecklenburgh, surveyors and estate agents OK Fish Bar Weddings, bridal shop The Peace Hospice Shop |
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Thong Thai, takeaway SOL Estates Ltd., Spanish property agents entrance to St Albans House Eagle Cars, minicabs Beneficial Finance Company vacant Domino's Pizza |
We're now going round the sweeping corner into the northeast side of the High Street
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vacant Crossroads House Choice Lettings |
We're now in the High Street.
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Cafe India Hot Stuff, kebab house Tops Pizza, takeaway Brown & Emery, solicitors Bodega, wine bar Maffey & Brentnall, solicitors Watford Council for Voluntary Service and Watford Racial Equality Council Robert Wildmore, estate agents The Pond, post office and news agent Pasta Bowl, restaurant Conway and Cook, solicitors Proffitt and Holt, estate agents Independent Mortgage Advice Bureau Colin Dean, estate agents Watford Business Centre Pane & Table, bar restaurant blank door Elliott & Partners, estate agent Aitchisons, estate agent Iain Andrews, estate agent Destiny, night club vacant the road to Sainsbury's |
Avoid trees and bollards on the corner, there's tactile paving on each side of this road. On the left (northwest) side, beyond the vacant shop, is Iceland Frozen Foods, whilst on the right is Yates's Wine Lodge, before the road curves round to the right, behind Yates's into Sainsbury's car park.
On the southeast corner of the junction is a notice board with a map of Watford.
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Yates's Wine Lodge, seating area in front, bounded by metal railing Maitlands, jewellers Express Food, takeaway pedestrian walkway to Sainsbury's |
Blank wall juts southwest several metres.
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Your Move, estate agents Lunn Poly, holiday shop Hofmann, recruitment Zinco, Italian restaurant Monmouth House Help the Aged, charity shop Bar Me Oxfam Aura, restaurant Hayes Staff, recruitment Rileys, American Pool and Snooker HFC Bank Leeds and Holbeck Building Society Holland & Barrett Pancho's Villa, restaurant Shipleys Amusements Salvation Army Situls, gift shop Jessops, cameras British Heart Foundation PDSA Subway, sandwich bar Barracuda, sandwich bar |
We're under the flyover for the ring road, there's a fountain in the middle of the street.
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Clements, dept store MVC, music and video Pizza Hut Bakers Oven Randstad Recruitment Barclays Bank Ryman, stationers CD Warehouse, records Laura Ashley Clarendon Road The Halifax |
The wall retreats northeast
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Woolworths Costa Coffee Lifestyle of London Greggs the Bakers Blue Arrow Personnel Services Cardfair Bon Marche, women's clothing access road to Charter Place Linens Direct Phones 4 U Personnel Plus Burger King Charter Place ("leading to Harlequin Centre") All Sports (juts out) |
There's a sharp pillar outside the entrance to All Sports,which is on the corner of Charter Place. When the shop is closed, the shutters incorporate this pillar into the regular corner.
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Etam, women's clothes Lloyds TSB JJB Sports Goldsmiths, jewellers Charter Place, bollards across entrance HSBC Post Office, including newsagents and stationers Prime Time Recruitment, Sylvan Learning Centre and Pitman Training Centre access way |
The wall retreats northeast
| BHS |
The wall juts out again
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Essensuals, hairdressers blank double door Marks and Spencer |
The wall juts out
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Gamestation Bradford & Bingley access way, William Hill betting shop on right |
There's a signpost marking a cycleway just opposite the start of the shop frontage on the southeast side of the access way.
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That Shop gated access way, with bollard, to Flame, recruitment agency Hair Express Ocean, clothes |
The Wall retreats
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Bristol and West Building Society Westgate Dept Store Gap, clothes |
The wall juts out
Queens Road, pedestrian way, leading northeast. The main entrance to the Harlequin Centre is on the right (southeast) side.
The pavement slopes down.
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Waterstone's Book Shop closed entrance, Albert Street The End, women's clothes Heaven Woman Kishimo-jin, women's clothes access way, Carey Place Pizza Express Toni & Guy, hairdressers Per Lui, men's clothes Boots the Chemist Electrabronze, tanning and beauty studios access way, up stairs Money Shop road at southeast end of the Harlequin Centre Sofas-UK plc |