From the New Forest coven, Gardner formed his own Bricket Wood coven, and in turn initiated many Witches, including a series of High Priestesses, founding further covens and continuing the initiation of more Wiccans into the tradition.

Moreover, the Bricket Wood coven today is well known for its many members from academic or intellectual backgrounds, who contribute to the preservation of Wiccan knowledge.

In 1948-9 Gardner and Dafo were running a coven separate from the original New Forest coven at a naturist club near Bricket Wood to the north of London.

The split with Valiente led to the Bricket Wood coven being led by Jack Bracelin and a new High Priestess, Dayonis.

Founding a Wiccan group known as the Bricket Wood coven, he introduced a string of High Priestesses into the religion, including Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne, Patricia Crowther and Eleanor Bone, through which the Gardnerian community spread throughout Britain and subsequently into Australia and the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

When summer came, he decided to visit an outdoor nudist club, that of Fouracres near the town of Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, which he soon began to frequent.

Doreen Valiente, a former High Priestess of the Gardnerian tradition, claimed that Gerald Gardner's Bricket Wood coven referred to the god as Cernunnos, or Kernunno, which is a Latin word, discovered on a stone carving found in France, meaning " the Horned One ".

Gardner was rumored to be homophobic by Lois Bourne, one of the High Priestesses of the Bricket Wood coven: Gerald was homophobic.

Originating within the Gardnerian tradition of the Craft, the first Book of Shadows was created by the pioneering Wiccan Gerald Gardner sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and which he utilised first in his Bricket Wood coven and then in other covens which he founded in following decades.

Gerald Gardner, the " father of Wicca ", first introduced the Book of Shadows to people that he had initiated into the craft through his Bricket Wood coven in the 1950s.

In 1949, he had renamed it to the Book of Shadows, and soon began to make use of it with his Bricket Wood Coven.

In 1953, Doreen Valiente joined Gardner's Bricket Wood coven, and soon rose to become its High Priestess.

Bricket Wood is a village in the county of Hertfordshire, England, south of St Albans and north-northeast of Watford.

The village of Bricket Wood has been host to at least six naturist clubs: Fiveacres Country Club, Spielplatz, The Sun-Folk Society, Gardenia ( originally named Silverbirch ), Diogenes Sunlight Society ( also known as The Phoenix Recreational Society ), and The Suncampers.

He established his first coven at Bricket Wood.

Gerald Gardner operated his coven from Fiveacre Country Club in Bricket Wood.

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Spielplatz ( German for playground ) is believed to be the UK's second oldest naturist club, and consists of 12 acres ( 5 hectares ) ( 49, 000 m² ) located in the village of Bricket Wood, in the county of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

They moved from London into a tent on an area of virgin woodland they purchased near Bricket Wood.

In turn he attracted both fellow Druids and Gerald Gardner, who later established his first coven at Bricket Wood in his development of Wicca as a modern religion.

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Franz Josef Strauss, a major politician in post WWII Germany, became the target of the broadcasting and publishing media blitz that Armstrong unleashed upon Europe through the daily offshore pirate radio station broadcasts by his son Garner Ted Armstrong, The Plain Truth and the Ambassador College campus at Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, England.

Rank took up the challenge and via an introduction by a young film producer named John Corfield, he discussed both the problem and a solution with Lady Yule of Bricket Wood.

The original presenter was Dr. Benjamin Rea who was Vice-Chancellor of Ambassador College at Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, England which is where he recorded the programs in the radio studio located on the campus.

In 1960 a second campus was opened at Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, England, and in 1964 a third campus was opened in Big Sandy, Texas.

The Ambassador campus at Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, England, was closed in 1974, as operating funds were deemed necessary for other functions of the Worldwide Church of God.

The Bricket Wood campus was acquired by The Central Electricity Generating Board ( CEGB ) and used as a management training facility.

The Bricket Wood campus was sold shortly after its closure.

From 1960 to 1972 he taught history, theology and elementary meteorology at the Ambassador College campus in Bricket Wood, England where he became Dean of Faculty.

Subsequently becoming the High Priestess of his Bricket Wood coven, she helped him to produce or adapt many important scriptural texts for Wicca, such as The Witches Rune and the Charge of the Goddess, which were incorporated into the early Gardnerian Book of Shadows.

In 1925, Sir David constructed Hanstead House in Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, where Lady Yule and her daughter Gladys lived for the rest of their lives.

The river begins in the grounds of Markyate Cell, and flows south for 12 miles ( 20 km ) alongside Watling Street through Flamstead, Redbourn, St Albans and Park Street, and joins the River Colne at Bricket Wood.

" Locations for the film include Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire ( as Lufford Hall ), Stonehenge, Bricket Wood railway station, and the round reading room of the British Museum.

About 478, 000 to 424, 000 years ago during the ice age period known as the Anglian Stage, glaciers approached from the North Sea and reached as far south-west as Bricket Wood.

The Building Research Establishment ( BRE ) is on Bucknalls Lane, Garston, just on the border with Bricket Wood.

Following a succession of owners the newspaper was subsequently bought in 1926 by Sir David Yule of Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, England.

In 1934 the British National Films Company was formed in England by J. Arthur Rank, Lady Annie Henrietta Yule of Bricket Wood and producer John Corefield.

A young producer named John Corefield introduced J. Arthur Rank to Lady Annie Henrietta Yule of Bricket Wood, who was both extremely wealthy and extremely bored with life.

Valiente joined Gardner's Bricket Wood coven, and soon rose to become its High Priestess.

After breaking from Gardner's Bricket Wood coven, she formed her own coven with Ned Grove as High Priest, still following the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca, albeit without the Wiccan laws, which she believed to be entirely an invention of Gardner's.

Other studios were located at Ambassador College, Bricket Wood, Herts, England and Ambassador College ( later accredited as Ambassador University ) at Big Sandy, Texas, USA.