Hemel Hempstead Hookups: Hemel Hempstead Women Want to Meet

Old Town charm, New Town room in Hemel Hempstead

Hemel Hempstead is two towns stacked on top of each other. The Old Town sits in a shallow chalk valley where the Gade and the Bulbourne meet, and people have lived there since at least the 8th century; it got its charter in 1539. After the Second World War the place was made a New Town, and the new streets climbed the valley sides onto the plateau above. Nearly 96,000 people live here now, 24 miles north-west of London, and if the Old Town doesn't turn up anyone interesting, there's a whole New Town up the hill.

A town that size gives you room to browse without every second profile turning out to be someone you know. Round the edges the countryside takes over: the Bulbourne runs past Boxmoor on the south-western side, farmland and woods stretch north and west into the Chilterns, and Watford and the start of Greater London begin to the south. If you fancy a daytime first meeting, the top of Roughdown Common, a chalk hill south of town, gives a view of the whole place laid out.

A neighbour on every side of Hemel Hempstead

Wherever you live in Hemel, a neighbouring town sits within about seven miles:

West, five miles

Berkhamsted is the nearest town on the Chiltern side, easy if you and a match are both on the western edge of Hemel.

East, five miles

St Albans, a cathedral city, is the same distance the other way.

South, a little over seven

Watford sits at the start of the Greater London conurbation, a short hop for anyone coming in from further south.

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