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Encyclopedia Britannica



HEMEL HEMPSTEAD

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 257 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HEG-HIG
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD , a market-town and municipal borough in the Watford parliamentary division of
Hertfordshire
 , England, 25 M. N.W. from London, with a station on a branch of the Midland railway from Harpenden, and near Boxmoor station on the London. and North Western main line. Pop. (1891) 9678; (1901) 11,264. It is pleasantly situated in the steep-sided valley of the river
Gade
 , immediately above its junction with the Bulbourne, near the Grand Junction canal. The church of St Mary is a very fine Norman building with Decorated additions.
Industries
  include the manufacture of
paper
 , iron
founding
 , brewing and tanning. Boxmoor, within the parish, is a considerable township of modern growth. Hemel Hempstead is governed by a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. Area, 7184 acres.
Settlements in the neighbourhood of Hemel Hempstead (Hamalamstede, Hemel Hampsted) date from pre-Roman times, and a Roman villa has been discovered at Boxmoor. The manor, royal demesne in so86, was granted by Edmund
Plantagenet
  in 1285 to the
house
  of Ashridge, and the town developed under monastic protection. In 1539 a charter incorporated the bailiff and inhabitants. A mayor, aldermen and councillors received governing power by a charter of 1898. The town has never had parliamentary representation. A market on Thursday and a
fair
  on the feast of Corpus Christi were conferred in 1539. A
statute
 
fair
 , for long a hiring fair, originated in 1803.


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