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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Hemel Hempstead. You may be able to find further references to Hemel Hempstead in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | HEMEL-HEMPSTEAD | a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Hemel Hempstead.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Box Moor | ecclesiastical district and railway station | Bartholomew | High Street Green | village | Bartholomew | LEVERSTOCK-GREEN | a chapelry | Imperial | Two Waters | village | Bartholomew | TWO-WATERS | a village | Imperial |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Hemel Hempstead within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | William Cobbett | June 19th to 24th, 1822: Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire | 8 | William Camden | Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire | 2 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Two Waters | 0 | 2 |
Frogmore | 0 | 2 |
Box Moor | 0 | 2 |
High Street Green | 0 | 2 |
Apsley End | 0 | 1 |
Leverstock Green | 0 | 2 |
Nash Mills | 0 | 2 |
Bourne End | 0 | 2 |
Potten End | 0 | 1 |
Great Gaddesden | 1 | 2 |
Kings Langley | 1 | 3 |
Nettleden | 0 | 2 |
St Margarets | 0 | 2 |
Dacorum | 0 | 2 |
Bovingdon | 0 | 2 |
Gorhambury | 5 | 2 |
Abbots Langley | 1 | 3 |
Redbourn | 10 | 2 |
Chipperfield | 0 | 1 |
Berkhamsted | 3 | 3 |