{"id":1503,"date":"2010-12-10T18:52:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T18:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2010-12-10T18:52:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T18:52:47","slug":"hemel-hempstead-hertfordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/hemel-hempstead-hertfordshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large town located in the county of Hertfordshire, <a title=\"Hemel Hempstead Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/hemel-hempstead-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hemel Hempstead<\/a> has a population of over 80,000 and though settled as long ago as Anglo-Saxon times, mostly grew as a New Town after the second world war. Recorded in the Domesday Book as <em>Hamelamesede<\/em>, the town received its charter in 1539, after which it held a street market every Thursday, its parish church of St Mary dates from the 12<sup>th<\/sup> century. In 1946 <a title=\"Hemel Hempstead Weather\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/hemel-hempstead-weather.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hemel Hempstead<\/a> was named as the site of a New Town, and quickly developed into a busy town, surrounding its older parts on all sides. Popular with shoppers from surrounding towns, Hemel Hempstead is a commercial centre for the region. Interesting places to visit in the Hemel Hempstead area include the historic village of <a title=\"Kings Langley Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/kings-langley-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kings Langley<\/a>, formerly the location of a priory and a royal palace (of the Plantagenet Kings), and the former coaching station of <a title=\"Redbourn Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/redbourn-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Redbourn<\/a> sitting on Watling Street, a charming village with a 12<sup>th<\/sup> century church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large town located in the county of Hertfordshire, Hemel Hempstead has a population of over 80,000 and though settled as long ago as Anglo-Saxon times, mostly grew as a New Town after the second world war. Recorded in the Domesday Book as Hamelamesede, the town received its charter in 1539, after which it held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[779,424,780,781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}