Leverstock Green

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Leverstock Green is a small village and now a neighbourhood in Hemel Hempstead, in the English county of Hertfordshire.

Leverstock Green contains a school (Leverstock Green Church of England Primary School), cricket club, football club, village hall, local shops, 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 lot 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 & M25 motorways, Watford and St Albans make the village popular for commuters.