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32-558: Heartwood Forest is located near Sandridge , St Albans , in the Metropolitan Green Belt . When the Woodland Trust acquired the land in 2008, most of the area consisted of farmland, predominantly oilseed rape fields. Only 18 hectares (44 acres) of the site's total 347 hectares (860 acres) consisted of ancient woodland . The name "Heartwood" was chosen for the growing forest as a nod to the heart-shaped leaves of

64-466: A box describing themselves as Scottish or Irish, an option not available for English respondents. With an absence of an English tick-box, the only other tickbox available was "white-British", "Irish", or "other". However, if 'English' was written in under the "any other white background" it was not clear whether it would be counted as an ethnic group in same the way as the Welsh. Following criticism, English

96-501: A box describing themselves as Scottish or Irish, an option not available for Welsh respondents. Prior to the census, Plaid Cymru backed a petition calling for the inclusion of a Welsh tickbox and for the National Assembly for Wales to have primary law-making powers and its own National Statistics Office. With an absence of a Welsh tickbox, the only other tickbox available was "white-British", "Irish", or "other". For

128-665: A resident population of 58,789,194. The 2001 UK census was organised by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in England and Wales , the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). Detailed results by region, council area, ward and output area are available from their respective websites. Similar to previous UK censuses,

160-531: The Forestry Commission at a site in Scotland. The Heartwood Forest site came second, with 20,326 trees planted, being beaten by Gransha Park where they planted over 26,000 trees in the hour. The site officially opened on 25 March 2018. Over a period of ten years, roughly 45,000 volunteers, including 17,000 school children, planted a total of 600,000 trees. The original ancient forest in the area

192-642: The Rose and Crown and the Queen's Head . The village church, St Leonard's , is medieval. Its lychgate was built as a memorial to World War I. It also supports Sandridge Rovers F.C. , who play in the Hertfordshire Senior County League . Sandridge was one of the earlier homes of the great English general, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough , and his infamous wife, Sarah , a favourite of Queen Anne . The title Baron Sandridge

224-420: The foot-and-mouth crisis , which led to extra precautions being adopted by the field staff, and suggestions that the census may have to be postponed. However, it was reported that the disease outbreak did not affect the effectiveness of the collection process. The census was estimated to cost £259m over its 13-year cycle from the start of planning in 1993 to the delivery of final results in 2006. Printing of

256-481: The 'other' heading. 26 per cent did not specify an ethnicity, but of the remainder 23 per cent wrote Filipino , 21 per cent Japanese , 11 per cent Vietnamese , 11 per cent Arab , 6 per cent Middle Eastern and 4 per cent North African . Controversy surrounding the classification of ethnic groups began as early as 2000, when it was revealed that respondents in Scotland and Northern Ireland would be able to check

288-765: The 2001 census was organised by the three statistical agencies, ONS, GROS, and NISRA, and coordinated at the national level by the Office for National Statistics. The Orders in Council to conduct the census, specifying the people and information to be included in the census, were made under the authority of the Census Act 1920 in Great Britain, and the Census Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 in Northern Ireland. In England and Wales these regulations were made by

320-469: The 30 million census forms was subcontracted to Polestar Group, and processing of the returned census forms was subcontracted to Lockheed Martin in a contract worth £54m. The forms were initially scanned into digital format, then read with OMR and OCR , with manual entry where the automatic process could not read the forms. The forms were then pulped and recycled, and the digital copies printed onto microfilm for storage and release after 100 years. Once

352-562: The Census Coverage Survey (sample size 320,000 households), resulting in a single set of population estimates. Although the 1851 census had included a question about religion on a separate response sheet, whose completion was not compulsory, the 2001 census was the first in Great Britain to ask about the religion of respondents on the main census form. An amendment to the 1920 Census Act (the Census (Amendment) Act 2000 )

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384-529: The Census Order 2000 (SI 744/2000), in Scotland by the Census (Scotland) Order 2000 (SSI 68/2000), and in Northern Ireland by the Census Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 (SRNI 168/2000). The census was administered through self-completion forms, in most cases delivered by enumerators to households and communal establishments in the three weeks before census night on 29 April. For the first time return by post

416-710: The UK census relies on self-completion, the composition of the other ethnic group category is not fixed. Analysis by the Office for National Statistics of the 220,000 people in England and Wales who ticked the other ethnic group box in the 2001 census reveals that 53 per cent were born in the Far East , 10 per cent in the UK, 10 per cent in the Middle East , and 7 per cent in Africa . People could write in an ethnic group under

448-528: The city centre of St Albans (2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the south-west) and Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire , England, forming part of the contiguous built-up area of St Albans. The original name was "Saundruage" meaning a place of sandy soil serviced by bond tenants. The earliest recorded mention of Sandridge is in the year 796 the parish being part of the revenue of the Mercian Kings . It

480-499: The data were returned to the statistics agencies it underwent further processing to ensure consistency and to impute missing values. The overall response rate for the census, that is the proportion of the population who were included on a census form, was estimated to be 94% in England and Wales, 96.1% in Scotland and 95.2% in Northern Ireland. This was due to a number of factors: households with no response, households excluding residents from their returns, and addresses not included in

512-465: The enumeration. In Manchester for example 25,000 people from 14,000 addresses were not enumerated because the address database was two years out of date. The Local Authority with the lowest response was Kensington and Chelsea with 64%. Hackney had the next lowest response at 72%. Out of all local authorities, the ten lowest response rates were all in London. The results still represent 100 per cent of

544-749: The final skirmishes of the Second Battle of St Albans took place in and around Sandridge as the Earl of Warwick , for the Yorkists, retreated towards Nomansland . The population of Sandridge parish at the time of the 2021 census was 11,919. This includes some people living in the Jersey Farm area of St Albans and partly the Marshalswick area. The village has three pubs: the Green Man ,

576-498: The first time in a UK census, those wishing to describe their ethnicity as Cornish were given their own code number (06) on the 2001 UK census form, alongside those for people wishing to describe themselves as English, Welsh , Irish or Scottish. About 34,000 people in Cornwall and 3,500 people in the rest of the UK wrote on their census forms in 2001 that they considered their ethnic group to be Cornish. This represented nearly 7% of

608-576: The history of St Leonard's Church, Sandridge, A paper read at a meeting of the St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archeological Society, held at Sandridge, June 24, 1900 by the Rev J.A. Cruikshank M.A. United Kingdom Census 2001 A nationwide census , known as Census 2001 , was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK census and recorded

640-477: The population, however, because some individuals not completing their forms were instead identified by census enumerators, and through the use of cross-matching with a follow-up survey. The results from the 2001 census were produced using a methodology known as the One Number Census. This was an attempt to adjust the census counts and impute answers to allow for estimated under-enumeration measured by

672-405: The question. The census ethnic groups included White ( White British , White Irish , Other White ), Mixed ( White and Black Caribbean , White and Black African , White and Asian , Other Mixed ), Asian or Asian British ( Indian , Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Other Asian ), Black or Black British ( Black Caribbean , African , Other Black ) and Chinese or Other Ethnic Group . Since

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704-608: The rare Lime trees present in these original pockets of ancient woodland. On 9 December 2009, a Guinness World Record attempt was made for the BBC Tree O'Clock scheme, in association with the Woodland Trust to plant the most new trees as possible in one hour. Three woodland sites made the attempt: the Heartwood Forest, Hainault Forest and Gransha Park. The previous record was 18,124 trees in an hour, held by

736-451: The site contains open grassland and wildflower meadows. Part of the motivation for the forest planting was to improve biodiversity . The Woodland Trust monitors local wildlife, and found that many species' populations more than doubled between 2010 and 2016, as the forest expanded substantially. Short-eared owls and barn owls returned for the area for the first time in a decade, and several entirely new species were attracted. As of 2017,

768-487: The site was taken over by the Home Office for police research. It is home to a small grass airfield to the north, named Coleman Green Airstrip which is used for general aviation. In 2008 the Woodland Trust announced plans to create a new forest north of Sandridge. The 858 acres (347 hectares) of woodland are now called Heartwood Forest . The forest surrounds the north and northwest of the parish . Some dates in

800-401: The trust had recorded 87 different bird species, 62 small mammal species, and 27 butterfly species. The forest is open to the public free of charge, with marked trails and walking paths throughout. There are also routes to allow riding bicycles or horses. As of 2019, the forest attracted roughly 140,000 visitors a year. Sandridge Sandridge is a village and civil parish between

832-550: The wireless traffic between Germany, Italy, Tokyo and other enemy embassies around the world. Messages intercepted at Sandridge were sent to Bletchley Park for decryption. The results were vital to Winston Churchill who used the information to make important decisions about the course of the war. After the Second World War it became part of the Diplomatic Wireless Service under GCHQ and in 1973

864-553: Was given by Egfrith son of Offa in the first year of his reign to abbot Eadric second abbot of St Alban's Monastery and to the monks of St Albans . Part of the parish of Sandridge was added to the Municipal Borough of St Albans in 1887. The remainder of the parish was renamed Sandridge Rural in 1894 when Sandridge Rural Parish Council was formed. In 1913 a further 241 acres were transferred to St Albans. The parish name reverted to Sandridge in 1957. In February 1461

896-568: Was given to Churchill by James II in 1685, and was his first English peerage title (his earlier title, Baron Eyemouth, had been created in 1682 by James's predecessor, Charles II , in the Peerage of Scotland ). In 1939 the first Second World War secret Wireless Intercept Station was constructed by the GPO at the top of Woodcock Hill. It was the first of a group of stations dedicated to Diplomatic Interception with rows of radio operators listening to

928-459: Was included as a tick-box option in the 2011 census. It is sometimes claimed that the 2001 census revealed that two-thirds of the population of Wales described themselves as of Welsh nationality . In fact, the 2001 census did not collect any information on nationality. Controversy surrounding the classification of ethnic group began as early as 2000, when it was revealed that respondents in Scotland and Northern Ireland would be able to check

960-412: Was mostly a bluebell wood . New plantings focused on native species like oak , hornbeam , birch , and willow trees. A community orchard of more than 600 fruit trees similarly focuses on old Hertfortshire varieties, including apple, pear and cherry trees. There is also an arboretum with representatives of all 57 native British tree species, the only such collection in the UK. In addition to trees,

992-589: Was passed by Parliament to allow the question to be asked, and to allow the response to this question to be optional. The inclusion of the question enabled the Jedi census phenomenon to take place in the United Kingdom. In England and Wales 390,127 people stated their religion as Jedi , as did 14,052 people in Scotland. The percentages of religious affiliations were: 15% declared themselves of no religion (including Jedi at 0.7%, more than those who declared themselves as Sikh, Jewish or Buddhist) and 8% did not respond to

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1024-466: Was used as the main collection method, with enumerators following up in person where the forms were not returned. The postal response rate was 88% in England and Wales, 91% in Scotland, and 92% in Northern Ireland. A total of 81,000 field staff were employed across the UK (70,000 in England and Wales, 8,000 in Scotland and 3,000 in Northern Ireland). The census was conducted at the height of

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