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4 unusual facts about Hemel Hempstead


A414 road

It runs from the A41 at a junction west of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, through the town to junction 8 of the M1 motorway at Buncefield, and running parallel to the M1 until junction 7, heading south of St Albans, east through Hatfield, Hertford, then across the A10 and into Essex through Harlow, Chipping Ongar and Chelmsford before terminating at Maldon.

Band of Voices

Band of Voices is an a capella singing group from Hemel Hempstead who reached the semi-finals of Britain's Got Talent in 2013.

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service

Essex was one of 16 brigades called in to attend the large Buncefield oil depot fire near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in December 2005.

Gustavus Arthur Talbot

On 14 December 1918 he was elected as Member of Parliament for the new constitiency of Hemel Hempstead as a Coalition Conservative.


Arthur Bingham

William Bingham, D.D. (1743–1819), vicar of Great Gaddesden (1777) and rector of Hemel Hempstead (1778) – later archdeacon of London (1789–1813) and chaplain to George III (1792); and his wife Agnata (aka Agnes), daughter of Liebert Dörrien, a merchant of Fenchurch Street, London and of West Ham, Essex.

Barr Britvic Soft Drinks

Its legal headquarters were to be at AG Barr’s existing head office in Cumbernauld, Scotland, while the operational headquarters would have been in Hemel Hempstead in southern England, where Britvic is based.

Gaddesden Place

Gaddesden Place, near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, England, was designed by architect James Wyatt and built between 1768 and 1773, and was the home of the noted Hertfordshire Halsey family.

Graham Young

After release from hospital in 1971, he began work as a quartermaster at John Hadland Laboratories in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, near his sister's home in Hemel Hempstead.

Harrow train accident 1838

The first part of the London to Birmingham Railway opened between Euston Station and Hemel Hempstead on 20 July 1837, and then on to Bletchley in time for Queen Victoria's coronation on 28 June 1838.

London Country North West

London Country North West took over 360 buses and garages at Garston, Hemel Hempstead, High Wycombe, Amersham and Slough.

Malcolm Phipps

In 1953, the family then moved to Hemel Hempstead where Phipps attended Adeyfield Secondary Modern, finally leaving school in 1957.He started working at John Dickinsons, later joining the Royal Navy.

Xara

Since 1984, the company has been headquartered in Gaddesden Place, Hemel Hempstead, an 18th-century Palladian style villa, designed by the celebrated architect James Wyatt, built in 1768 and reputed to be his first building in the UK.


see also

Fields End

Neighbouring towns are the Hemel Hempstead district of Warner's End and the villages of Potten End and Little Heath.

Heath Park Halt railway station

In 1920, the townspeople of Hemel Hempstead were presented with a battlefield tank by the National War Savings Committee in recognition of their contribution to the war effort during World War I.

Hemel Hempstead Gazette

The Hemel Hempstead Gazette is part of Premier Newspapers Ltd which itself is part of the Johnston Press group of local newspapers.

Highfield, Hertfordshire

It was constructed on a green field site as part of the construction of the postwar newtown expansion of Hemel Hempstead.

Tony McWalter

McWalter won the Hemel Hempstead seat from Robert Jones (Conservative) in 1997 and held it in 2001, and was narrowly defeated by 499 votes by Mike Penning, (Conservative) in 2005.