* 2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.

* the Haemele, ( Hemel Hempstead )

In early December 2005 the 2005 Hemel Hempstead fuel depot explosions occurred at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal.

One product, now largely defunct, was water-cress, based in Hemel Hempstead and Berkhamsted supported by reliable, clean chalk rivers.

In the past, clay has supplied local brick-making and still does in Bovingdon, just south-west of Hemel Hempstead.

Two feature films were made based on the series-the first was Till Death Us Do Part ( 1969 ), whose first half dealt with the younger Alf and Else during World War II, and whose second half dealt with all the Garnetts in the present day being moved from their East End slum to the New town of Hemel Hempstead, and the adjustments and changes that brought on the family.

Category: People from Hemel Hempstead

After Kings Langley and Apsley-the site of more former paper mills-the canal passes Hemel Hempstead and Boxmoor Common.

In the United Kingdom, the " Magic Roundabout " name has been given to large road traffic circulation systems with unconventional layouts-in Swindon and in Hemel Hempstead for example.

The Hemel Hempstead roundabout, with its large central roundabout surrounded by six smaller ones, is officially named the Plough Roundabout.

Berkhamsted () is a historic town in England which is situated in the west of Hertfordshire, between the towns of Tring and Hemel Hempstead.

Berkhamsted is located in the Chiltern Hills, Hertfordshire, in the wide valley of the River Bulbourne, to the west of Hemel Hempstead.

When Berkhamsted joined Hemel Hempstead and Tring in Dacorum the new Borough Council in Hemel Hempstead drew plans to demolish the site.

A number of local bus routes pass through Berkhamsted town centre, providing links to Hemel Hempstead, Luton, Watford and Whipsnade Zoo.

Settlers came the following year and named the area Hempstead, in honor of their home city, Hemel Hempstead in England.

Hertfordshire built four other new towns, two in the vicinity of Stevenage ( Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield ), a third to the north called Letchworth, and Hemel Hempstead to the east.

Joe ’ s step-brother, John Doyle ( 17 August 1925 – 16 November 2009 ), was also active in politics and was conservative Mayor and Bailiff of Hemel Hempstead in 1969.

Britvic has a large factory on Widford Industrial Estate while its headquarters at Britvic House in Broomfield Road closed in March 2012 relocating to Hemel Hempstead in order to facilitate better transport links for its staff.

* Humble, R. and Bergin, M. ( 1993 ) A 16th century galleon, Inside story series, Hemel Hempstead: Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-7500-1339-7

The first part of the line between Euston Station and Boxmoor ( Hemel Hempstead ) opened on 20 July 1837.

In the United Kingdom, Grove Hill, one of the seven planned neighbourhoods in the Hertfordshire new town of Hemel Hempstead, was also partially designed using the Radburn model.

* Felden — Felden is a partly rural area south west of Hemel Hempstead that has many wealthy detached houses.

Hemel Hempstead Town Cricket Club, founded in 1850, has a pitch and practice facilities at Heath Park, near the town centre.

Hemel Hempstead has an indoor Snow Centre, a real snow indoor sports venue which, opened in April 2009, and offers a range of indoor snow based sports and activities.

Hemel Hempstead Bowls Club has its greens at Gadebridge Park.

Gadebridge Park also has an outdoor skatepark that was designed and supplied by local extreme sports fanatics " Hemel Skates " after earning ₤ 65, 000 through fundraising.

The chalk on which Hemel is largely built has had commercial value and has been mined and exploited to improve farmland and for building from the eighteenth century.

Hemel Hempstead has a mixture of heavy and light engineering companies and has attracted a significant number of information technology and telecommunications sector companies helped by its proximity to London and the UK motorway network.

There is also the Rock & Rollers sculpture, the Discobulous fellow, who once resided outside Bank Court but has been moved to the water gardens, Water Play, a fountain, a 3D map of 1940s Hemel, and a giant rainbow mosiac, which is the most recognisable sculpture in Hemel.

A series of 10m high blue steel arches called the Phoenix Gateway has been installed on the roundabout closest to the Hemel Hempstead junction of the M1 motorway.

File: The Old Bell, Hemel Hempstead. jpg | The Old Bell pub in Hemel old town has parts built in 1615 but is on the site of even older inns.

This route has always connected Hemel Hempstead and Maldon, but over the years it has changed so much that it is almost completely new.

Part of the Dacorum Borough Council district ( centred on Hemel Hempstead ), it has Luton ( 01582 ) phone numbers and a St Albans postal code ( AL3 ).

The Hemel Hempstead Gazette has also run stories on the Gutter flowing in early 1982 as Argentinian Forces invaded the Falkland Islands, in early October 1987 days before the Great Storm of 1987 that devastated woodlands throughout southern England, and in 2003 as British troops joined the International invasion of Iraq

Dacorum Borough Swimming Squad is an elite Swimming Squad made up of members from the swimming clubs in Dacorum including Hemel Hempstead Swimming Club, FIFOLITS Swimming Club, Berkhamsted Barracudas Swimming Club, Berkhamsted Sports Centre Swimming Club, Kings Langley Swimming Club and Tring Swimming Club.

Another opinion is that Hemel probably came from " Haemele " which was the name of the district in the 8th century and is most likely either the name of the land owner, or could mean " broken country ".

His view of Hemel Hempstead, he said, was “ not a city in a garden, but a city in a park .” However, the plans were not well received by most locals.

As of the 2001 census, Hemel Hempstead is the most populated urban area in Hertfordshire, narrowly more populated than its traditionally " larger " rival, Watford.

From 1967 to 1983, it was home to one of the most remarkable newspaper experiments of recent times, when the Thomson Organisation launched the Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo.

The airfield served as airport for Hemel Hempstead during most of the postwar period.

Edislia Rombley's 1998 entry ( Hemel en Aarde ) remains the Netherlands ' most successful post-1975 song, finished fourth in Birmingham.

The most recent sitting of a Piepowder Court was in 1898, in Hemel Hempstead.

The rivalry between the Midland and LNW Railway companies ensured that the line ultimately failed to serve the people of Hemel Hempstead in the most useful way possible, and the last passenger train ran in December 1947, following a ' temporary ' suspension of services due to the national coal shortage.

Ian Lygo ( born ), a civil servant, from Hemel Hempstead, is the former sole holder of the record for the most consecutive appearances by a contestant on a television game show, having made 75 appearances on the UK game show 100 % in late 1998, with the 75th appearance occurring on 14 December of that year.