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Chaulden

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Tudor Rose Chaulden
Tudor Rose Chaulden

Chaulden is a residential district in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England located west of the town centre and bordering on open countryside. It was an early development in the construction of Hemel Hempstead new town, commenced in 1953 and has its own neighbourhood shopping centre. The name Chaulden can be traced back to 1523 as a local field name and as meaning a chalky valley. A country house and estate called Chaulden House occupied the area during the nineteenth century. Chaulden House stables and an octagonal tower dating from the mid-19th century are all that now remain of the house. The tower may have been a dovecote. It is currently used by the NHS. The ancient Chaulden Lane is thought to preserve the route of Akeman Street, the Roman Road along the Bulbourne valley A large part of the site was previously occupied by Pixies Hill – a children's camp run by the National Camps Corporation. The old camp buildings were converted into the district's first school before permanent schools could be constructed.Building work on the new town district commenced in 1953 with the first houses occupied in December of that year.The Chaulden Neighbourhood centre – a parade of shops set in a crescent around a car park – was completed in 1958. A nearby pub, the Tudor Rose, also built by the New Town corporation, celebrates Hemel Hempstead's link to the Tudor King Henry VIII, who gave the town its charter.The population of the appropriate Dacorum Ward (Chaulden and Warner's End) at the 2011 Censuswas 9,146.

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Fields End
Fields End

Fields End is a hamlet to the North West of Hemel Hempstead, just beyond Warner's End on Boxted Road, in Hertfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population of the hamlet was included in the Dacorum ward of Chaulden and Warner's End. The village is formally recognised as village within Hertfordshire by Hertfordshire County Council.Fields End consisted largely of agricultural fields until planning permission was granted for a new residential estate to begin construction on green belt land between Warner's End and Potten End in the 1980s. The estate was completed in the late 1990s, with Dacorum council having made several attempts to continue to develop the remaining agricultural land of Fields End Farm in the intervening years. Attempts to develop the fields around Fields End continue to be investigated by Dacorum council, with formal objections being registered at recently as December 2008.Local schools are Potten End School, Micklem Primary and formerly Martindale Primary schools (closed 2008), and the John F Kennedy Catholic School. The sites of Fields End Infants and Junior School and The Halsey School, the neighbouring High School both formerly on the south-east side of Polehanger Lane near the lower spur of Fields End Lane from the end of Boxted Road now lies beneath the Fields End estate housing development which was constructed in the early 1990s. Neighbouring towns are the Hemel Hempstead district of Warner's End and the villages of Potten End and Little Heath.

Warner's End

Warners End is a neighbourhood or district of Hemel Hempstead, a new town in Hertfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population of the District was included in the Chaulden and Warner's End ward of Dacorum Council. It was the fourth of the new districts built during the expansion of Hemel Hempstead into a new town with work on its construction commencing in 1953.The place name can be traced back to John Warner mentioned in land documents from 1609 and Warners End farm is notable on historic maps. Its site is now partly occupied by Fields End Junior School. Some of its buildings survive on Long Chaulden.The country house, Northridge Park, was built in 1890, and was the home of Nathaniel Micklem QC, Liberal MP for the Watford division of Hertfordshire between 1906 and 1910. Its site is now occupied by William Crook House an old people's home.Like other new town districts in Hemel Hempstead, Warners End has its own community shopping parade called Stoneycroft. The pub, built by the New Town corporation in 1956, is called 'Top of the World' in honour of the conquering of Everest which took place shortly before building work started. The district was virtually complete by 1959.Warners End lies to the north of the town, around the Stoneycroft shopping area. Boxted Road, which leads from Hemel Hempstead to Fields End and Potten End, passes through the neighbourhood. Local schools are Micklem and formerly Martindale primary schools (closed 2008), and the John F Kennedy Catholic School.The neighbouring districts are Gadebridge and Chaulden.