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REDBOURN, a much-buffeted one-horse Hertfordshire village on what used to be A5 and is now A5183, was promoted to four-horse status when, after officially opening a 21/2-mile &elm by-pass, Frank Cogan, chairman of Hertfordshire County Council, rode along it in a mail coach. This was similar to the coaches that staged in Redbourn early last century.
The village is still unsuited to anything bigger than horsed traffic, but even with the coming of M1 it has continued to be busy with heavy lorries, the drivers of which patronise a popular cafe nearby, and a bypass was urgently needed, "In the final analysis" inot to mention the end of the day], "nothing can be more important than the quality of fife," Harold Greenfield, highways committee chairman, said portentously. This noble sentiment is echoed by the villagers, who have in the past tended to dwell more on the quality of death.