Leverstock Green is a village in the
English county of
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties. It borders Bedfordshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Greater London to the ...
. It is located between Hemel Hempstead and St Albans
Leverstock Green has a school, Leverstock Green Church of England Primary School, cricket club, tennis club, football club (
Leverstock Green FC), village hall, shops, pubs and a
Church of England parish church
A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within each Church of England parish (the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative unit; since the 19th century sometimes ...
Holy Trinity Church, built 1847-49 to the designs of architect
Raphael Brandon, is Grade II listed.
Leverstock Green is a "modern" ecclesiastical parish, formed about 1849 from parts of the parishes of St Michael's (
St Albans
St Albans () is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Hatfield, north-west of London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-east of Luton. St Albans was the first major ...
),
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 affected by the 2005
Buncefield oil depot explosion (the largest explosion in peacetime Europe), causing damage to houses and other buildings, such as broken windows, fallen chimneys and in some cases more serious structural damage, temporarily displacing a number of families.
Sport and leisure
Leverstock Green has a
Non-League football
Non-League football describes association football, football leagues played outside the top leagues of a country. Usually, it describes leagues which are not fully professional. The term is primarily used for football in England, where it is ...
club
Leverstock Green F.C., which plays at Pancake Lane.
Leverstock Green also has a
Cricket
Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...
Club called
Leverstock Green Cricket Club, which plays on Bedmond Road.
References
External links
''The Leverstock Green Chronicle'' A detailed history of one village in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, by Barbara Chapman. Accessed November 2006
Leverstock Green Village AssociationLeverstock Green Football ClubLeverstock Green Cricket Club
Villages in Hertfordshire
Areas of Hemel Hempstead
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