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Attractions + Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead #1 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead City Centre St Albans Hertfordshire ~5.81 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to City Centre St Albans #2 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead City Centre Watford Watford ~7.56 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to City Centre Watford #3 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead City Centre Amersham Buckinghamshire ~7.67 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to City Centre Amersham #4 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead Kenilworth Roadless (Luton Town F.C.) Bedfordshire ~9.21 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to Kenilworth Roadless (Luton Town F.C.) #5 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead Luton Train Station Bedfordshire ~9.27 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to Luton Train Station Luton railway station is located in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. The station is near to the town centre, about three minutes' walk from the Arndale Shopping Centre. It is situated on the Midland Main Line and is operated by First Capital Connect. It was built by the Midland Railway in 1868 on its extension to St. Pancras. For some years it was known as Luton Midland Road to distinguish it from the earlier Luton Bute Street, built in 1858 on the GNR line from Hertford North to Leighton Buzzard. In order to build the line a public area known as the "Great Moor" had to be built through. The remainder of the land was bought for development by John Crawley, who provided a replacement in what is known as the "People's Park." This proved a worthwhile investment because, as the town's staple trade in straw hats diminished as they went out of fashion, it was replaced by engineering works. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the population had nearly trebled, and the station had become an important stop for main line expresses. The station originally consisted of only 3 platforms before modernisation in 1937 saw an additional fourth platform added then again in 1960 when a further platform was added for the suburban services to and from St. Pancras. Upon the opening of Eurostar at St. Pancras International, through-fares to continental Europe were made available from Luton and 67 other UK towns and cities to Paris, Brussels and other destinations in France and Belgium. The station is set for significant investment from both Network Rail and First Group to improve facilities for customers as well as creating longer platforms as part of the Thameslink programme. In 2009 the station was identified as one of ten 'worst' major stations on the network and is set to receive a share of £50m funding for improvements. #6 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead City Centre Luton Bedfordshire ~10.25 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to City Centre Luton #7 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead City Centre Hatfield Hertfordshire ~10.65 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to City Centre Hatfield #8 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead City Centre Welwyn Garden City Welwyn Garden City ~11.93 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to City Centre Welwyn Garden City #9 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead City Centre High Wycombe High Wycombe ~14.62 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to City Centre High Wycombe #10 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead City Centre Aylesbury Aylesbury ~15.10 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to City Centre Aylesbury #11 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead City Centre Stevenage Stevenage ~15.55 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to City Centre Stevenage #12 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead Wembley Stadium (Arena) Ealing ~16.04 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to Wembley Stadium (Arena) Wembley Stadium is located in the London Borough of Brent in London, England. Its primary use is for home games of the England national football team, and the main English domestic football finals. It is also used for pop concerts and other sporting events. With 90,000 seats, the stadium has the second largest capacity in Europe and the largest in the world with every seat under cover. Wembley Arena is an indoor arena in Wembley, London, UK. The building is opposite Wembley Stadium. It was built for the 1934 Empire Games by Sir Arthur Elvin, and originally housed a swimming pool, as reflected by its former name, the Empire Pool. The pool itself was last used for the 1948 Summer Olympics. The building is used for music, comedy and family entertainment, and for sport. Music predominates, as the arena doesn't currently have a tenant sports team. Wembley Arena was renovated along with Wembley Stadium as part of the regeneration of the Wembley area. The Arena refurbishment cost £35m and the new arena opened to the public on 2 April 2006 with a concert by Depeche Mode. With 12,500 seats it is London's second largest indoor arena after The O2 arena and third largest indoor concert venue after the O2 and Earls Court One, an exhibition hall which regularly stages concerts. http://www.wembleystadium.com #13 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead Swaminarayan Hindu Temple London ~16.89 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to Swaminarayan Hindu Temple BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London was inaugurated on August 20, 1995 by Pramukh Swami Maharaj. BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Neasden (also commonly known as the Neasden Temple), is a Hindu temple in the London Borough of Brent in northwest London. Built entirely using traditional methods and materials, Neasden’s Swaminarayan Mandir is Britain’s first authentic Hindu temple. It was also Europe’s first traditional Hindu stone temple, as distinct from converted secular buildings. It is a part of the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) organization. The Mandir was cited in Guinness World Records 2000, as follows: "Biggest Hindu Temple outside India: The Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Neasden, London, UK, is the largest Hindu temple outside India. It was built by His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj, a 79-year-old Indian sadhu (holy man), and is made of 2,828 tonnes of Bulgarian limestone and 2,000 tonnes of Italian marble, which was first shipped to India to be carved by a team of 1,526 sculptors. The temple cost £12 million to build." The Mandir was built and funded entirely by the Hindu Community and the entire project spanned 5 years although the Mandir construction itself was completed in two and a half years. Building work began in August 1992. On 24 November, the temple recorded the biggest-ever concrete-pour in the UK, when 4,500 tons was put down in 24 hours to create a foundation mat 6ft (1.8m) thick. The first stone was laid in June 1993; two years later, the building was complete. Angkor Wat in Cambodia is larger, but is no longer used as a Hindu temple. The Neasden Temple complex consists of: A traditional Hindu temple (mandir), constructed mainly from hand-carved Italian Carrara marble and Bulgarian limestone. The temple is the focal point of the complex A permanent exhibition entitled ‘Understanding Hinduism’ A cultural centre, known as the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Haveli, designed in traditional Gujarati haveli architecture, housing an assembly hall, gymnasium, bookshop, and offices. #14 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead St. Paul's Church (Slough) Slough ~17.10 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to St. Paul's Church (Slough) From their website: St. Paul's Parish Church is based in the heart of Slough, Berkshire (UK) As an evangelical Anglican Church, we believe in the authority of the Bible, and in the power of the Holy Spirit. We are an increasingly multi-ethnic congregation, reflecting the diversity within our parish. Committed to spreading God's word in Slough, we have a vibrant church life, with many different activities for all ages. #15 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead Slough Train Station Slough ~17.44 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to Slough Train Station Slough railway station, in Slough, Berkshire, England, is served by local services operated by First Great Western from Paddington to Reading. It is on the Great Western Main Line, the original line of the Great Western Railway, and is also the junction for the Windsor branch. The station is just to the north of the town centre, on the north side of the A4. #16 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead City Centre Slough Slough ~17.58 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to City Centre Slough #17 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead St. Mary's Church (Slough) Slough ~17.90 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to St. Mary's Church (Slough) Church Street Slough, 03 SL11PJ United Kingdom #18 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead City Centre Marlow Buckinghamshire ~18.02 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to City Centre Marlow #19 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead St. Laurence Church, Slough Slough ~18.07 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to St. Laurence Church, Slough Saint Laurence's Church is one of three churches in the modern parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, and is the oldest building in the borough of Slough, in Berkshire, England. In the 12th century the wooden parish church of Upton was replaced with a flint building. The tower and outside walls of the Norman building form part of the present church. Several walls bear testament to pudding stone construction. Two other Norman features survive: the ancient baptismal font, and a piscina. During the reformation, many of the ancient decorations were mutilated. A 13th century Italian allegorical image of the Trinity – God Father, Son and Holy Spirit – survived and was reassembled during the restoration of the church. #20 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead Kenwood House London ~18.20 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to Kenwood House The history of the cultivated estate can be divided into three documented phases: the formal garden of the first half of the 18th century, as recorded in Rocque's map of 1745; the more picturesque landscape from the 1st Earl of Mansfield's time, as painted (with some imagination) by John Wootton in 1755; and the landscape remodelled by the 2nd Earl of Mansfield in 1793-6 and completed by the 3rd Earl, largely to Humphry Repton's Designs. The landscape was designed to be seen from a planned circuit walk that provided a series of evocative views, contrasts and "surprises" for which Repton was well known. One of today's greatest and most delightful "surprises" is to find this gentleman's estate complete with farm, dairy, stables, kitchen garden, lakes, woods and meadows still surviving so close to the centre of London. Bordered by three sides by Hampstead Heath, the Kenwood estate, having been maintained as a designed landscape until the 1950s, has a different character from the Heath. In recent years, over-competitive species have taken over and Kenwood began to resemble a 'wild' heath loosing the balanced collection of contrasts between grassland, woodland and wetland. Current restoration seeks a more balanced variety, so that wild flowers, trees, animals and wildfowl may all flourish. #21 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead City Centre Hounslow Richmond-upon-Thames ~18.43 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to City Centre Hounslow #22 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead Osterley Park London ~18.63 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to Osterley Park Osterley Park is a mansion set in a large park of the same name. It is in the London Borough of Hounslow, part of the western suburbs of London. When the house was built it was surrounded by rural countryside. It was one of a group of large houses close to London which served as country retreats for wealthy families, but were not true country houses on large agricultural estates. Other surviving country retreats of this type near London include Syon House and Chiswick House. The park is one of the largest open spaces in West London, though it is marred by the presence of the M4 motorway, which cuts across the middle of it. #23 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead Burgh House London ~18.64 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to Burgh House Burgh House is a historic house located in Hampstead, London. Burgh House was constructed in 1704 during the reign of Queen Anne. At the time of construction the Hampstead Wells Spa was flourishing. In 1720 the Spa's physician, Dr. William Gibbons, moved to Burgh House, which he enlarged. He added the present wrought-iron gate which carries his initials. One inhabitant of the house was Israel Lewis, who was an upholsterer. He was involved in a court case in which he was found guilty of creating a nuisance by "making an inclosed Dung stall" in his garden, and was fined five pounds and made to remove it. Until the 1870s the house was known as Lewis House. In 1858 Burgh House was taken over by the Royal East Middlesex Militia, and served as the Head-Quarters and Officers' Mess until 1881. The house returned to domestic use in 1884. From 1906-1924 the house was occupied by Dr. George Williamson, an international art expert. He commissioned Gertrude Jekyll to design the garden, although only the terrace now remains. In 1925, a director of Lloyd's Bank, Captain Constantine Evelyn Benson CBE, DSO, bought the house for £4,750. He built the present music room on the site of Dr. Williamson's library. Between 1933-1937, Rudyard Kipling's daughter, Elsie Bambridge lived in Burgh House with her husband, Captain George Bambridge. Rudyard Kipling's last outing in 1936 was to Burgh House, to visit his daughter. From 1937-1946 Burgh House was unoccupied. It was bought and restored by Hampstead Borough Council in 1946. The barrack blocks in front of the building were pulled down and in 1947 it reopened as a community centre with a Citizen's Advice Bureau in its basement. The house was again closed indefinitely in 1977 when its new owners, Camden Council, discovered dry rot in the building. Threatened with proposals to turn the house over to a commercial use, local residents formed a charitable trust and launched a "Keep Burgh House" appeal, as a result of which Camden Council granted them a lease for the House. On 8 September 1979, the House, restored by the Council and refurbished by the Trust, opened to the public as the house and museum that it is. In recent years it has been further restored with backing from The Heritage Lottery Fund, Bridge House Trust and many local benefactors. The refurbished building opened to the public on 16 July 2006. Burgh House currently hosts exhibitions and concerts, and is hired for weddings, receptions and other private events. #24 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead Maidenhead Railway Bridge (Maidenhead Viaduct) Maidenhead ~18.75 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to Maidenhead Railway Bridge (Maidenhead Viaduct) Maidenhead Railway Bridge (aka Maidenhead Viaduct) is a railway bridge carrying the main line of the Great Western Railway over the River Thames between Maidenhead, Berkshire and Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. It crosses the Thames on the reach between Bray Lock and Boulter's Lock The bridge was designed by the Great Western's famous engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and it was completed in 1838, but not brought into use until 1 July 1839.[2] The railway is carried across the river on two brick arches, which at the time of building were the widest and flattest in the world. Each span is 128 feet (39 m), with a rise of only 24 feet (7 m). The flatness of the arches was necessary to avoid putting a "hump" in the bridge, which would have gone against Brunel's obsession with flat, gentle gradients (1 in 1,320 on this stretch). The Thames towpath passes under the right-hand arch (facing upstream), which is also known as the Sounding Arch, because of its spectacular echo. It has been claimed that the board of the Great Western Railway did not believe that the arches would stay up under the weight of the trains and ordered Brunel to leave the wooden formwork used to construct the arches in place. However, Brunel simply lowered the formwork slightly so that it had no structural effect, but appeared to be in place. Later, when the formwork was washed away in floods, but the bridge remained, the strength of the arches was accepted. As built, Maidenhead Railway Bridge carried two lines of Brunel's broad gauge track. Subsequently the bridge has been widened, and now carries the four lines of standard gauge track that make up the Great Western Main Line out of London Paddington Station. Maidenhead Railway Bridge features in Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, painted by Turner in 1844 and now in the National Gallery, London #25 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead Bisham Abbey Maidenhead ~18.84 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to Bisham Abbey Bisham Abbey is a Grade I listed manor house at Bisham in the English county of Berkshire. The name is taken from the now lost monastery which once stood alongside. The abbey church proper, previously Bisham Priory, was the traditional resting place of many Earls of Salisbury. The complex surrounding the extant manorial buildings is now one of five National Sports Centres run on behalf of Sport England. #26 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead Eton College Eton ~19.01 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to Eton College Eton College is a world-famous British independent school for boys, founded in 1440. Eton was founded by King Henry VI as the King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor. Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent boarding school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor". It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, north of Windsor Castle, and is one of the original nine English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. It has a very long list of distinguished former pupils, including eighteen former British Prime Ministers. Traditionally, Eton has been referred to as "the chief nurse of England's statesmen",[2] and has been described as the most famous public school in the world.[3] Early in the 20th century, a historian of Eton wrote "No other school can claim to have sent forth such a cohort of distinguished figures to make their mark on the world #27 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead Theatre Royal Eton ~19.49 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to Theatre Royal The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The building standing today is the most recent in a line of four theatres at the same location dating back to 1663, making it the oldest London theatre. For its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed to be London's leading theatre",[2] and thus one of the most important in the English-speaking world. For most of that time, it was one of a small handful of patent theatres, granted monopoly rights to the production of "legitimate" (meaning spoken plays, rather than opera, dance, concerts, or plays with music)[3] drama in London. The first theatre on the location was built at the behest of Thomas Killigrew in the early years of the English Restoration. Actors appearing at this "Theatre Royal in Bridges Street" included Nell Gwyn and Charles Hart. It was destroyed by fire in 1672. Killigrew built a larger theatre in the same spot, designed by Christopher Wren; renamed the "Theatre Royal in Drury Lane," it opened in 1674. This building lasted nearly 120 years, under leadership including Colley Cibber, David Garrick, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. In 1791, under Sheridan's management, the building was demolished to make way for a larger theatre which opened in 1794. This enormous new Drury Lane survived just 15 years, burning down in 1809. The building that stands today opened in 1812. It has been home to actors as diverse as Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, child actress Clara Fisher, comedian Dan Leno, the comedy troupe Monty Python (who recorded a concert album there), and musical composer and performer Ivor Novello. Today, the theatre is owned by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and generally stages popular musical theatre. It is a Grade I listed building. #28 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead River Thames Eton ~19.51 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to River Thames The River Thames (pronounced /'t?mz/ ( listen)) is a major river flowing through southern England. While best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows through several other towns and cities, including Oxford, Reading and Windsor. The river gives its name to several administrative / political names: The Thames Valley, a region of England centred around the river between Oxford and West London, the Thames Gateway, the area centred around the tidal Thames, and the Thames Estuary to the east of London. #29 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead Windsor Castle Eton ~19.56 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to Windsor Castle Windsor Castle, in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William the Conqueror, is the oldest in continuous occupation. The castle's floor area is about 45,000 square metres (480,000 sq ft). Together with Buckingham Palace in London and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, it is one of the three principal official residences of the British monarch. Queen Elizabeth II spends many weekends in the year at the castle, using it for both state and private entertaining. Her other two residences, Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle, are the Royal Family's private homes. Most of the Kings and Queens of England, later Kings and Queens of the United Kingdom, have had a direct influence on the construction and evolution of the castle, which has been their garrison fortress, home, official palace, and sometimes their prison. Chronologically the history of the castle can be traced through the reigns of the monarchs who have occupied it. When the country has been at peace, the castle has been expanded by the addition of large and grand apartments; but when the country has been at war, the castle has been more heavily fortified. This pattern continues to the present day. #30 of 30 Things To Do in Hemel Hempstead City Centre Windsor Eton ~19.59 miles from Hemel Hempstead city center Hotels Close to City Centre Windsor

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