On countable connected locally connected almost regular Urysohn spaces (Q789765)

The following question was raised by \textit{G. X. Ritter} [General Topol. Appl. 7, 65-70 (1977; Zbl 0341.54019)]: Does there exist a countable connected locally connected Urysohn space which is almost regular? We answer this question in the affirmative and in fact, show that not only are there as many as \(2^ c\) such spaces but that there are just as many rigid spaces with the same properties. Furthermore we show that every countable Urysohn space is a subspace of such a space. We also prove that every countable group is isomorphic to the group of autohomeomorphisms of some connected locally connected almost regular Urysohn space. Examples are given of groups of order c which can be represented in this manner.