Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

Travel writing

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

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
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