The Green, Croxley’s common, sits at the centre of the village with All Saints’ Church beside it, and 1930s bay-fronted semis fill the roads below, from Frankland Road to Harvey Road. London Carpet Cleaning has worked these Croxley, WD3, streets since 2009. Prices are fixed, from £36 a room, and a cleaned carpet is dry within 6 to 7 hours.
A paper-mill village that became a commuter suburb
Croxley Green is old; a moneyer to King Canute called Croc is recorded here in 1016. It stayed a farming village until the Grand Junction Canal crossed Croxley Moor in the 1790s, and in 1830 John Dickinson opened his paper mill on the canal’s east bank. The mill grew and grew, and in the late 1880s its expansion turned New Road, until then little more than a path, into a street of Victorian terraces. By 1887 the company had bought Milestone Field, and George Hubbard, the architect of the mill buildings, designed Dickinson Square on it for the mill workers: small terraced cottages and larger houses round a green, a planned mill village of the kind more usual in the north. The parish and All Saints’ Church date from 1870 to 1872.
Then came the Metropolitan line. Croxley station, on Watford Road, opened on the Watford branch on 2 November 1925 (as Croxley Green; it was renamed in 1949), and builders filled Frankland Road, Harvey Road and the closes off Baldwins Lane with bay-fronted semis, each with a through-lounge and a flight of stairs that takes the brunt. The mill closed in 1980 and was demolished in 1982, and Croxley became the commuter village it is now. The Green itself is common land, owned by Three Rivers and looked after by the parish council, inside the Croxley Green Conservation Area designated in January 1980; Dickinson Square has its own conservation area. Croxley Common Moor and the canal lie down the hill, and plenty of mud finds its way back up from both.
Croxley Green in the census
| Homes that are | Share |
|---|---|
| Semi-detached houses | 52.9% |
| Terraced houses | 17.7% |
| Owned, outright or with a mortgage | 81.4% |
| Three-bedroom homes | 47.6% |
| Built 1919 to 1944 | 46.6% |
| Built before 1919 | 10.4% |
The census area is named Croxley Green and takes in the village around The Green and the station. It is a semi-detached place: 52.9% of homes are semis, and the biggest building period by far is 1919 to 1944, at 46.6%, the years after the Met arrived. Almost half of all homes (47.6%) have three bedrooms, and for one of the Frankland Road semis with three bedrooms, a through-lounge and the stairs, the fixed price is £210.
The older village is still there in the figures. Some 10.4% of homes were built before 1919, the New Road terraces and the Dickinson Square cottages, and terraced houses make up 17.7% of all homes. Four in five homes (81.4%) are owned, so most bookings are families freshening a house they have lived in for years, or getting it ready to sell. Central heating is almost universal, which keeps drying times short all year.
Figures: ONS Census 2021 (Three Rivers 006) and VOA council tax stock, March 2024.
Parking in the CG zone and on the 1930s roads
Most of Croxley is free of permit parking, and the 1930s semis off Baldwins Lane and Winton Drive usually have a drive or open kerb. The exception is the Croxley Green permit zone, CG, which covers Dorrofield Close, Gonville Avenue, Hazelwood Road, The Crescent, Dickinson Square, Beechcroft Avenue and parts of New Road and Watford Road. There the permit bays apply for one hour only, 12pm to 1pm on weekdays, and the next-door Winton Drive zone, W, has its own signs. A one-day visitor voucher from you covers the van; otherwise we time the start around that hour.
In Dickinson Square and the New Road terraces the rooms are small and the stairs narrow, so we carry the hose in through the front and work from the top down. In the semis, a clear landing and an empty bottom stair help, and a dog kept in the garden or a back room stops paw prints on the wet pile. On school days we arrive after the morning run, when the roads near the schools have cleared.
How much does carpet cleaning cost in Croxley?
The price is fixed before we come, there is no call-out fee, and the rates here match those across Hertfordshire and every London borough we cover.
- Carpet per bedroom from £36
- Living room from £43
- Through-lounge from £61
- Stairs, one flight, from £41
- Two-seater sofa from £57; armchair from £33
- Rug up to 3m² from £35
A two-bed flat with its living room comes to £115. Get a free quote, or call us on 020 8077 8090.
Carpets, three-piece suites and rugs in Croxley
Most bookings here are hot-water extraction, which is what people mean by steam carpet cleaning: a deep rinse that pulls grit and old spills out of the pile and leaves it dry within 6 to 7 hours. For tired three-piece suites and recliners we handle sofa and upholstery cleaning, matched to the fabric so velvets and linens are not over-wetted. Loose rugs, from machine-made runners to wool and patterned pieces, get specialist rug cleaning in the home on the visit. We also reach the neighbouring WD3 villages, so if you are in Chorleywood or down towards Rickmansworth it is the same crew and the same prices.
What Croxley households ask us
Do you cover all of Croxley and Croxley Green, or just near the station?
All of it, across the WD3 postcode. That takes in the streets around Croxley station, the conservation area by The Green, the New Road terraces, Dickinson Square, the inter-war roads on Frankland and Harvey Roads, and the lanes running down towards the canal and Croxley Common Moor. We come out from London over the M25, so there is no extra travel charge for being in Hertfordshire.
Where will you park while you work?
On most Croxley streets it is easy. The 1930s semis off Baldwins Lane and Winton Drive usually have a drive or unrestricted kerb space. In the CG permit zone the bays are only controlled from noon to 1pm on weekdays, so we plan around that hour or use a visitor voucher. We tuck the van in tidily and do not block your neighbours.
We are selling the house. Is it worth cleaning the carpets before viewings?
Usually yes. A full clean lifts traffic lanes and clears stale odours, so the house shows fresher, which matters in a village where buyers compare similar 1930s semis street by street. We can do a whole house in one visit and have it dry well before an afternoon viewing, so book a morning slot if your day is busy.
How long before the carpets are dry?
About 6 to 7 hours to dry, with socks, not shoes, until then. Hot-water extraction leaves only a little moisture, and we lift it with strong suction on the final passes. Timings stretch a bit on a wool carpet, a thick underlay or a damp winter day, and we leave the air moving so an older terrace dries down properly.
Is my road in the Croxley Green permit zone?
Only a handful of roads are. Zone CG covers Dorrofield Close, Gonville Avenue, Hazelwood Road, The Crescent, Dickinson Square, Beechcroft Avenue and parts of New Road and Watford Road, and the bays are controlled for one hour on weekdays, from noon to 1pm. Households there can buy one-day visitor vouchers from Three Rivers; one covers our van.
I live in one of the Dickinson Square cottages. Is the clean any different?
The method is the same, the planning is a little different. These are late-Victorian mill cottages built for John Dickinson’s workers, with small rooms and a narrow stair, so we bring the hose in carefully and protect the paintwork at the turns. The conservation area and its Article 4 Direction cover the outside of the houses; inside, the carpet gets the same hot-water clean as anywhere else.
Every clean is backed by our re-clean guarantee: if a patch is not right, we come back and put it right. We are fully insured and DBS-checked, with fixed prices and no call-out fee, and we have cleaned for Croxley and the WD3 villages since 2009.
