Chipperfield
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Chipperfield is a village and civil parish in the Dacorum district of Hertfordshire, England, about 5 miles south of Hemel Hempstead. The parish includes the hamlet of Tower Hill. The village centre is a large green on the edge of nearby Chipperfield common. An historic pub, the Two Brewers faces the green and is a popular summer meeting place to drink out of doors. Nearby places are Belsize, Kings Langley and Bovingdon. Chipperfield has three churches - C of E, Catholic and Baptist. It also has a primary school called St Pauls C of E, with strong ties to the church, which is located adjacent to the school. Next to the school is a village club called Blackwell's, and tennis courts owned by CTC. Every year, a Pantomime is held in the Village Hall, which is organised by the Chipperfield Theatre Group.
[edit] The History of Chipperfield
For centuries Chipperfield was an outlying settlement of Kings Langley consisting only of houses. However by the 1830's Chipperfield was large enough to warrant the building of both Anglican and Baptist churches and became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1848. Since the end of World War II the village has dramatically expanded with housing estates during the 1940s and an extensive council estate to the east of Croft Lane in the 1960s. However, since the 1980s the rate of new building has considerabely diminished.
