Chorleywood the Local Government Act 1894 created districts as subdivisions of the newly created county councils, Chorleywood became part of the Watford Rural District, which encircled Watford. In 1913, the town was separated from Watford Rural District to become Chorleywood Urban District. In the early 1960s, researchers at the British Baking Industries Research Association in Chorleywood improved upon an earlier American bread-making process. This resulted in the Chorleywood Bread Process which is now used in over 80% of commercial bread production throughout the UK. In the 1973 BBC Television documentary, "Metro-land", Sir John Betjeman described Chorleywood as "essential Metro-land". In 1974,
The Making of a Teacher story of how this noted teacher of meditation transformed his own life." The book "vividly demonstrates why so many people have used this method to draw upon their deepest reserves of compassion, wisdom, and serenity." "The Making of a Teacher" has been excerpted in "Hinduism Today" and "The Quest". The original edition was published by in 1989 by Nilgiri Press, an Indian edition was published in 2002 by Penguin India, and an electronic edition was published in the US in 1993: The Making of a Teacher The Making of a Teacher is a spiritual biography of Eknath Easwaran (1910-1999). Written