Hemel Hempstead is a town in the Dacorum district in Hertfordshire,England. It is located 24 miles (39 km) north-west of London;nearby towns include Watford,St Albans and Berkhamsted. The population at the 2021 census was 95,961.
Douglas Garven Alexander is a British politician who has served as a Minister of State at the Department for Business and Trade since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Lothian East since 2024. He was previously MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South,formerly Paisley South,from 1997 until his defeat in 2015. During this time,he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,Scottish Secretary,Transport Secretary and International Development Secretary in the Cabinet under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He subsequently served in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Shadow Foreign Secretary.
Dame Karen Patricia Buck is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Westminster North,previously Regent's Park and Kensington North,from 1997 to 2024. A member of the Labour Party,she served as a Member of Westminster City Council from 1990 to 1997.
Dacorum is a local government district with borough status in Hertfordshire,England. The council is based in Hemel Hempstead. The borough also includes the towns of Berkhamsted and Tring and surrounding villages. The borough had a population of 155,081 in 2021. Dacorum was created in 1974 and is named after the ancient hundred of Dacorum which had covered a similar area. The borough of Dacorum is the westernmost of Hertfordshire's ten districts. It borders St Albans,Three Rivers,Buckinghamshire and Central Bedfordshire.
Robin Corbett,Baron Corbett of Castle Vale was a British Labour Party politician and journalist.
Nash Mills is a civil parish within Hemel Hempstead and Dacorum Borough Council on the northern side of the Grand Union Canal,formerly the River Gade,and in the southernmost corner of Hemel Hempstead. There is evidence of a mill in this location since the 11th century and the row of 16th century mill cottages still remain. John Dickinson established a number of papermaking mills in the area in the 19th century.
The Nickey line is a disused railway that once linked the towns of Hemel Hempstead and,initially,Luton but later Harpenden via Redbourn,in Hertfordshire,England. The course of most of the railway has been redeveloped as a cycle and walking path,and is part of the Oxford to Welwyn Garden City route of the National Cycle Network. It is approximately nine miles (14 km) long.
Hemel Hempstead Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Hemel Hempstead,Hertfordshire,England. Affiliated to the Hertfordshire County Football Association,they are currently members of the National League South and play at Vauxhall Road.
Hemel Hempstead is a constituency in Hertfordshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system. Since 2024,it has been represented by David Taylor of the Labour Party.
South West Hertfordshire is a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament,represented since 2019 by Gagan Mohindra,a Conservative.
Watford is a UK parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons since 2024 by Matt Turmaine,a member of the Labour Party.
Sir Michael Alan Penning is a British Conservative Party politician,who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hemel Hempstead from 2005 to 2024.
Robert Brannock Jones was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for West Hertfordshire for its 14-year existence,from its creation in 1983 until it was abolished in 1997. He served as Minister of State for Construction,Planning and Energy Efficiency in the Department of the Environment from 1994 to 1997.
The Hemel Hempstead Gazette &Express is a local newspaper in the United Kingdom that covers the towns of Hemel Hempstead,Berkhamsted and Tring and the surrounding area in Hertfordshire.
Reginald Moss was a British schoolteacher and Labour politician. After fighting an energetic campaign in Hemel Hempstead in the 1950 general election,he was elected as the first Member of Parliament for Meriden in 1955. As a backbencher he had a low profile but managed some achievements in House of Commons committees. Moss lost the highly marginal constituency after a single term and was forced to return to his previous career. He died many years later in obscurity.
Dame Margery Irene Corbett Ashby,was a British suffragist,Liberal politician,feminist and internationalist.
Westbrook Hay School is a culturally significant great house located in Hemel Hempstead,Hertfordshire,England,that has housed the independent Westbrook Hay Prep School since 1963.
Professor Richard Sean Grayson is a British historian. He is currently the Head of School of Education,Humanities and Languages at Oxford Brookes University.
Hemel Hempstead Hospital is an acute District General Hospital in Hemel Hempstead,Hertfordshire operated by the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Dacorum Pavilion was a theatre and performance venue in Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. The Pavilion closed in June 2002. The site is occupied by The Forum,which houses council offices and a library.
