Hemel Hempstead

Hemel Hempstead is a town in the Dacorum district of , England. It is located 24 miles north-west of ; nearby towns and cities include , and .
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  • Type: Town with 81,100 residents
  • Description: town in Hertfordshire in the East of England
  • Also known as: “Hemel”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hemel Hempstead railway station and The Forum.

Railway station
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lies in , on the western edge of the town of Hemel Hempstead, in , England. It is located 24+1⁄2 miles north-west of London Euston on the West Coast Main Line.

Town hall
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is a municipal building in Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, , England. The building accommodates the meeting place and offices of Dacorum Borough Council as well as the local library.

Theater building
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The is a municipal building in the High Street, Hemel Hempstead, , England. The town hall, which was the meeting place of Hemel Hempstead Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kings Langley and Bennetts End.

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is a historic village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, 21 miles northwest of central London on the southern edge of the Chiltern Hills and now part of the London commuter belt.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood within Hemel Hempstead in , . It is located in the southeast of the town and consists almost entirely of public housing built as part of the new town in the 1950s.

Suburb
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was the first planned neighbourhood to be built in the postwar new town expansion of Hemel Hempstead, in the English county of .

Hemel Hempstead

Latitude
51.7512° or 51° 45′ 4″ north
Longitude
-0.4725° or 0° 28′ 21″ west
Population
81,100
Elevation
453 feet (138 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HHE
Open location code
9C3XQG2G+FX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20992547
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647138
Wiki­data ID
Q3532
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Hemel Hempstead” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هيميل هيمبستيد”
  • Armenian: “Հեմել Հեմփսթեդ”
  • Asturian: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Basque: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Belarusian: “Гэмэл-Гэмпстыд”
  • Catalan: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Cebuano: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Chinese: “漢默漢普斯特”
  • Chinese: “赫默尔亨普斯特德”
  • Chinese: “赫默爾亨普斯特德”
  • Czech: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Dutch: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيميل هيمبستيد”
  • Esperanto: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Finnish: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • French: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • German: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Greek: “Χίμελ Χέμπστεντ”
  • Hebrew: “המל המפסטיד”
  • Irish: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Italian: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Japanese: “ヘメル・ヘムステッド”
  • Japanese: “ヘメル・ヘンプスタッド”
  • Korean: “헤멀헴프스터드”
  • Korean: “헤멀헴프스테드”
  • Korean: “헤멜헴스티드”
  • Ladin: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Latvian: “Hemelhempsteda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Norwegian: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Persian: “همل همپستد”
  • Polish: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Romanian: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Russian: “Хемел-Хемпстед”
  • Serbian: “Хемел Хемпстед”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Slovak: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Slovenian: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • South Azerbaijani: “همل همپستد”
  • Spanish: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Swedish: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Tatar: “Һемел-Һемпстед”
  • Turkish: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Ukrainian: “Гемел-Гемпстед”
  • Urdu: “ہیمل ہیمپسٹڈ”
  • Volapük: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • Welsh: “Hemel Hempstead”
  • “Hemel Hempstead”

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