Welcome To Boxmoor in Hemel Hempstead
Boxmoor, or Boxmoor Village, is a district of Dacorum in Hertfordshire, England. It is now part of Hemel Hempstead. It is a district of mainly nineteenth century housing and meadowland.
The name Boxmoor derives from the box tree a bushy inhabitant of the chalky hills that surround the location. This is linked together with the word 'mor' which signifies a marshy spot; Boxmoor's ancient watermeadows are still a major feature of the locality.
The Box Moor Trust owns meadow land in the area alongside the River Bulbourne. This was land purchased by tenants in secret during the sixteenth century to prevent it being enclosed and depriving them of grazing. It is still held by the same trust established at that time and is used for summer grazing and has open access for recreational use.
The ancient Box Lane runs uphill from Boxmoor to Bovingdon. On this lane, close to the Boxmoor end, stood the historic early seventeenth century Box Lane Chapel, a non-conformist chapel founded in 1668 on land owned by the Westbrook Hay estate, was re-built in 1690 and then altered in 1856 and again in 1876. Tradition has it that Oliver Cromwell once worshiped here at an earlier building on the site. It is now a private house after being sold in 1969.
St John's Church in Boxmoor was built, in 1874, on part of the Box Moor Trust land.
The remains of a Roman villa have been found in the grounds of Boxmoor House School near the railway station dating from around the 1st or early 2nd century AD.
The Sparrows Herne turnpike, set up in 1762, was the stagecoach route from London to Aylesbury and passed along the valley bottom through Boxmoor following the London Road (A4251). The Grand Junction Canal, latterly known as the Grand Union, and the trunk canal from London to the Midlands followed along the same route in 1804. A local pub, The Fishery Inn, was an historic refreshment stop on the canal.
Robert Snooks, in 1802, the last highwayman to be hung and buried at the scene of his crime robbed a post boy on the turnpike on Boxmoor meadows. His remains are interred in Boxmoor meadows near the place where he was hung and the likely spot is marked by two stones, erected by the Box Moor Trust in 1904.
Boxmoor village itself was developed after 1837 when the London and Birmingham Railway was forced, by local landed interests, to build its main line and station about a mile to the west of Hemel Hempstead town The station, originally called Boxmoor, offered fast commuting to London combined with a small country town life, attractive to wealthier commuters and this stimulated the development of Victorian era housing near the station but outside the original bounds of Hemel Hempstead. In 1846, it became part of the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR).
In 1877 a branch line - known as the "Nicky Line" - was opened by the Midland Railway running from the London and North Western Railway's Boxmoor station, through Hemel Hempstead to Harpenden. Disputes between the railway companies however prevented this from ever being used for a passenger connecting service and the station's link to Hemel town was always via horse bus or on foot across the Boxmoor meadows. Hemel Hempstead railway station was from 1912 known as "Boxmoor and Hemel Hempstead".
The area was absorbed into the expanded Hemel Hempstead new town during the 1950s and 1960s but retains a local character. The station was then renamed from Boxmoor to Hemel Hempstead.
A four lane duel carriageway, the A41 trunk road, was built through the district in the 1990s, connecting the M25 to Aylesbury. This crosses Boxmoor meadows in a strip of land in which all the earlier links run side by side, turnpike, canal, railway and modern trunk road.
Boxmoor Hall was built in 1889 from surplus funds by the local trust,it has been used as a magistrates court, more recently as an arts centre run by Dacorum Boriugh Council, and in 2007 the hall became privately owned as used for performing arts. Boxmoor Hall is now a licenced premises and host special occasions.[4]
[edit]Economy
The area has little industry and limited commerce but its mostly Victorian family houses are in demand for those who work elsewhere in Hemel Hempstead and especially commuters who use the rail station to reach London in around 30 minutes.
[edit]Sports
Boxmoor Cricket Club was founded in 1857 when the Box Moor Trust let some of their land be used as a cricket pitch that is known as the Boxmoor oval which had a pavilion added in the 1930s.[5]
ARTS
ORGANISATIONS
Tel: 01442 233456
Boxmoor
and Dist AS
23 Sebright Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead or to Fishery 81 Marlowes Hemel Hempstead
Tel: 01442 393381
CHURCHES
Church of St Mary & St Joseph Boxmoor
Hemel Hempstead Community Church 2 Puller Road Boxmoor
DANCING
Ballroom and Latin American Dancing St Johns Hall Boxmoor Woodhall Farm Community center Ms C Garnham 4 Thorncroft Hemel Hempstead Herts HP3 8HP Tel: 01442 246659
DENTIST
Dental Practice 451 London Road Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP3 9B3 Tel: 01442 253253
DOG & CAT GROOMING
Handsome Hounds 67 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QG
Tel: 01442 219236
ESTATE
AGENTS
Castles 230 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QQ
Tel: 01442 233345
David
Doyle Estate Agents 45 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire HP1 1QQ
Tel: 01442 248671
FISH & CHIPS FISHMONGERS
Westons Fish Bar Ltd 254-256 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QG
Tel: 01442 242876
FOLK DANCING
Hemel Hempstead Folk Dance Club Contact Phone: 01442 268636 This club meets at Bourne Methodist Hall corner of Northridge Way and Ashtree Way Boxmoor
GENERAL
STORES
M & K Stores 33 St Johns Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QQ
Tel: 01442 403092
GOLF CLUB
Boxmoor Golf Club 18 Box Lane Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP3 0DJ Telephone No 01442 242434
GROUNDWORK
CONTRACTORS
Dara Contracts Ltd 75 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QG
Tel: 01442 262405
GUEST HOUSES
Boxmoor Lodge Hotel London Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 2RA Tel: 01442 230770
Southville Private Hotel 9 Charles St Hemel Hempstead Boxmoor Hertfordshire HP1 1JH Tel: 01442 251387
HAIRDRESSERS
Barry Austin 43 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QQ
Tel: 01442 252744
Richard Browns 47 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QQ
Tel: 01442 239550
Make-Time
220 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire
HP1 1QQ
Tel: 01442 253360
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INDIAN TAKE AWAY FOOD
Alinoor Tandoori 43 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QQ
Tel: 01442 250008
INSIGHT COUNSELLING
Insight Counselling Practice (Hemel Hempstead) Contact Mrs N Rahman-Blake Boxmoor Therapy Centre 282 St John's Road Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QG Phone: 01442 402095 (24 Hours)
MINIATURE RAILWAY SUPPLIES
The Miniature Railway Supply Co Limited 42 Stratford Way Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Herts HP3 9AS England Telephone Fax & Answerphone: 01442 214702
NATURAL DESIGNS
Natural Designs Chalk Dell Roughdown Road Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Herts HP3 9BJ 01442 242923
NEWSAGENTS
Parrys 7-11 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QF
Tel: 01442 252539
OFF LICENCES & WINE MERCHANTS
Boxmoor Vintners 25-27 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QQ
Tel: 01442 252171
Osteopaths
Brian Cusworth BSc(Hons)DO Jane Ducklin BSc(Hons)DO 9 Northridge Way Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Telor Fax: 01442 255610 Tel: 01442 890073
PLUMBERS
Hemel Plumbers, 20 Milton Dene Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire, HP2 7PE
Tel: 01442 231804 Mobile 07810 196710
PHARMACY
Byrons Chemist 49a St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QQ
Tel: 01442 264591
PHYSIOTHERAPIST
Physiotherapist 66 Crouchfield Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Tel: 01442-215639
PICTURE
FRAMERS & FRAME MAKERS
Boxmoor Framing Gallery 23a St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QF Tel: 01442 234094
PUBLIC
HOUSES
The Steam Coach 86 St Johns Rd Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1NP
Tel: 01442 244480
Three Blackbirds 194 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1NR
Tel: 01442 253523
The Fishery Inn Fishery Road Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire England HP1 1NA Telephone
Tel: 01442 261628
Ye Olde Projectionist Heath Park St Johns
Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1JR
Tel: 01442 264672
RESTAURANTS
Ristoranti Alfonso 10 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1JR
Tel: 01442 264846
Sitar
Contemporary Indian Restaurant 218 St Johns
Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1
1QQ
Tel: 01442 242609
SCHOOLS
Boxmoor Primary School Name Boxmoor Primary School Address Cowper Road Town Hemel Hempstead County Hertfordshire Postcode HP1 1PF Phone 01442 402244
SEEDS
Seeds-by-Size 45 Crouchfield Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1PA 01442 251458
SPORTS
CENTRE
Hemel Hempstead Sports Centre Park Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1JS Tel: 01442 228188
TAXI
Hayter's Taxis 1 Haybourn Mead Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1NY Tel: 01442 23188
WEDDING SERVICES FLOWERS & DECORATIONS
The Florist 232 St Johns Rd Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1QQ
Tel: 01442 212237
WOOD WASTE
Wood waste Barrow and Holding Tel / Fax 01442 252339 58 Glenview Road Boxmoor HEMEL HEMPSTEAD Herts HP1 1TB