Hemel Hempstead, a market-town of Hertfordshire, 23 miles NW. of London, a centre of the straw-plaiting industry. It has also paper-mills, iron-foundries, tanneries, and breweries. Pop. of parish (1851) 7073; (1891) 9678.
Hemel Hempstead
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 638
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