Perry Green is a scattered hamlet in Hertfordshire, England, near Much Hadham.[1]

St. Thomas's Church, Perry Green.

The sculptor Henry Moore settled there in 1941.[2] His house Hoglands now forms part of a sculpture garden featuring his work, run by the Henry Moore Foundation.[3]

Double Oval by Henry Moore, from Henry Moore Sculpture Perry Green.

Notes

  1. ↑ Tompkins, Herbert W. (1922). Hertfordshire (2nd ed.). London: Methuen. p. 104 – via Project Gutenberg.
  2. ↑ Wilkinson, Alan. "Moore, Henry Spencer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39962. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ↑ Henry Moore Foundation page

51°50′24″N 0°05′06″E / 51.840°N 0.085°E / 51.840; 0.085

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