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Hemel Hempstead in 50 Buildings

Paul Rabbitts | Peter Jeffree
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  • ISBN 9781398129559
  • Dimensions: 165 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Nov 2026
  • Publisher: Amberley Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Although Hemel Hempstead is a New Town, the first recorded mention of the town is in the Anglo-Saxon period. The Old Town saw planned development along the High Street in mediaeval times and the early 16th-century a borough charter was granted, with the right to hold a weekly market and yearly fair. After the Second World War Hemel Hempstead was chosen as one of the sites of the government’s new towns. The architect Geoffrey Jellicoe’s initial plans were rejected as too expensive and impractical, but the structure of Jellicoe’s town centre was largely retained. Starting in 1952, a new town centre was built at Marlowes, beside the Water Gardens diverted from the River Gade. This building phase was finished in 1962 and later in the decade West Herts College, a library, police station and cinema were added, with new housing and commercial developments added up to the present-day, as well as the Forum council offices.

Hemel Hempstead in 50 Buildings explores the history of this town in Hertfordshire through a selection of its most interesting buildings and structures, showing the changes that have taken place over the years. The book will appeal to all those who live in Hemel Hempstead or who have an interest in the area.
About Paul Rabbitts | Peter Jeffree
Dr Paul Rabbitts has over 35 years of experience in designing, managing and restoring urban parks across the UK. As a qualified Landscape Architect, he is also a published author and regular contributor to journals and periodicals. As well as being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture, he currently works full time for Norwich City Council as their parks manager. He is an author of books on architects Sir Christopher Wren and Decimus Burton as well as Regent’s Park, Richmond Park, Hyde Park, the wider Royal Parks and that icon of public parks, the Victorian and Edwardian bandstand, on which he is acknowledged as a UK expert and which was the subject of his PhD at the University of East Anglia. He lectures frequently on all things parks and can be contacted via his website www.paulrabbitts.co.uk . He lives in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. Peter Jeffree is a retired architect who now applies his architectural eye and his lifelong interest in photography to documenting important historic buildings before, during and after conservation or restoration. Peter lives in Watford.

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