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Hemel-Hempstead

Developed as a town that is new later, in Hertfordshire, /ˈhɛməl ˈhɛmpstɪd/ Hemel Hempstead is historic. Led by one John Carman, Hemel Hempstead Emigrants migrated in the early 17th century to the American colonies and founded Hempstead, New York in 1644. In Domesday Book of 1086, on its site that is present Hemel Hempstead is mentioned with about 100 inhabitants, as Hamelhamstede, a vill. In Domesday hundred of (Daneys, i.e. Danish) Danais was Hemel Hempstead which had been combined to form the hundred of Dacorum, by 1200 with the Tring hundred, which into the 19th century, maintained its court.

William Stephyns was the bailiff of Hemel Hempstead (29 December 1539). The government abolished the Borough of Hemel Hempstead in 1974 and, along with Tring and Berkhamsted, was incorporated into Dacorum District. On the western edge, Hemel Hempstead station is on the West Coast Main Line. The Grand Junction Canal construction reached, in 1798, Hemel Hempstead.

A mile south of the town centre, Hemel Hempstead station is in Boxmoor. In Waterhouse Street is the Hemel Hempstead bus station. Play in the Conference South, Hemel Hempstead Town football club dates back to 1885. At Gadebridge Park, Hemel Hempstead Bowls Club has greens.

Hemel as opposed to Berkhamsted nearby, originated as a way of specifying Hemel Hempstead, it is possible for a previous name to have become corrupted to something similar to Hempstead. It could be that in an open to the sky, less-forested area Hemel Hempstead was, as in Dutch "Hemel" and German "Himmel", Hemel is reflected, of which both mean 'sky' or 'heaven', while Berkhamsted (could mean 'birch') was in a forest of birch trees. The elder half-brother of William the Conqueror, Robert, Count of Mortain, was granted lands associated with Berkhamsted Castle, which included Hemel Hempstead, after Norman conquest.

Serving stations that are local in the town at Godwin's Halt, (Midland) Hemel Hempsted, and Heath Park Halt, the Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead branch railway crossed the centre on a long, curved viaduct. In accordance with the government's "policy for the decentralisation of persons and industry from London", Hemel Hempstead was announced as No 3 for a New Town in July 1946. When the Evening Post-Echo of Hemel Hempstead launched by Thomson Organisation, it was home to one of the most remarkable newspaper experiments from 1967 to 1983.

With a mixture of heavy and light engineering companies, Hemel Hempstead has attracted a number of IT and telecommunications sector companies helped by its proximity to London and the UK motorway network. Founded in 1850, Hemel Hempstead Town Cricket Club has a pitch and practice facilities near the centre, at Heath Park. Offering a range of indoor snow based sports and activities, Hemel Hempstead has a snow centre that is indoors, in April 2009 a indoor sports venue of real snow opened.