Dane End
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Dane End is a village
Village
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 to the north of Ware in Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
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, England
England
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 situated between the A602
A602 road
The A602 is a road linking Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England, with A10 at Ware in Hertfordshire, via Stevenage.The course of the road has changed significantly since the 1960s with the construction of several bypasses and relief roads....

 and A10. It is within the East Hertfordshire
East Hertfordshire
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 District Council
Non-metropolitan district
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 and has a population of around 700. Dane End means the 'valley ends' and is located where a tributary of the River Lea comes off the surrounding chalk
Chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. Calcite is calcium carbonate or CaCO3. It forms under reasonably deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite plates shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores....

.

Little Munden Primary School

Little Munden School is a Church of England
Church of England
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 voluntary controlled
Voluntary controlled school
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 primary school. It was founded in 1819 at All Saints Church by the Reverend J P Reynolds, who served as rector
Rector
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 from 1819 to 1831. The school was designated as a Grade II listed building by English Heritage
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 in 1984 as an early example of a parish school.

Sport

Football
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club Dane End United play in the East Hertfordshire Corinthians League, a local Sunday football league, and Ware and District five-a-side league. They play their home games in Horses Meadow.
The local and very friendly Little Munden Cricket Club play at nearby Green End. Currently, it plays in the Herts & Essex Cricket League, Division 7.
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