http://blobble.com Blog about this, that and everything. Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:21:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blobble.com/2009/12/hemel-hempstead/ http://blobble.com/2009/12/hemel-hempstead/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:57:01 +0000 needahand http://blobble.com/?p=50 A bustling town within the English county of Hertfordshire, Hemel Hempstead was possibly settled as long ago as the Roman times, with remains of a Roman villa being found in nearby Boxmoor. The first records mentioning the town date from the 8^th century and its name drived from the Anglo-Saxon Hean-Hempsted (or High Hempstead), in the Domesday Book it was named as Hamelamesede. The Norman conquest saw its land owned by Robert, Count of Mortain, it was later controlled by Thomas Becket, it was later granted a Royal Charter by Henry 8^th. The town has mostly grown however since WW2 as it was developed as a ‘new town’, it now has a population of around 81,000. Map of Hemel Hempstead.

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