Leverstock Green is a village adjacent to Hemel Hempstead, in the English county of Hertfordshire. It is located on the eastern edge of the town.
Leverstock Green contains a village school (Leverstock Green Church of England Primary School), village cricket club, village football club (Leverstock Green FC), village hall, village shops, village pubs and Holy Trinity church.
Leverstock Green is a "modern" parish, formed about 1849 from parts of the parishes of St Michael's (St Albans), Abbots Langley and Hemel Hempstead.
There is documentary and archaeological evidence that people lived and worked in the immediate area of Leverstock Green from the time of the Roman occupation onwards. Recent research indicates that settlement along Westwick Row may well date back even further to the Iron Age and perhaps the Bronze Age. It seems quite likely that this settlement was a "suburb" of the major Iron Age settlement at Pre Wood just outside St. Albans.
Leverstock Green was and is still affected by the 2005 Buncefield oil depot explosion (the largest explosion in peacetime Europe), causing damage to houses and other buildings, such as broken windows, fallen chimneys and in some cases more serious structural damag, temporarily displacing a number of families.
The village is a growing village, with a location close to an industrial estate from which many large companies operate. Easy access to the M1 and M25 motorways, Watford and St Albans make the village popular for commuters.
The village introduced a village patrol scheme in late august 2008 aimed at reducing a rise in litter and grafiti in the area, its effect is unknown to date.
References
- The Leverstock Green Chronicle A detailed history of one village in Hertfordshire, UK, by Barbara Chapman. Accessed November 2006
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Coordinates: 51°45′N 0°26′W / 51.75°N 0.433°W
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