- Leverstock Green
Leverstock Green is a Village adjacent to
Hemel Hempstead , in the English county ofHertfordshire . It is located separate to 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, vilage 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 (one of the largest in Europe), blowing many windows out and 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, it's affect is unknown to date.
References
* [http://bacchronicle.homestead.com/LGChronicle.html "The Leverstock Green Chronicle"] A detailed history of one village in Hertfordshire, UK, by Barbara Chapman. Accessed November 2006
External links
* [http://www.lgva.freeserve.co.uk/ Leverstock Green Village Association]
* [http://www.levgreenfc.co.uk/ Leverstock Green Football Club]
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