Hemel Hempstead, a busy market-town in Herts, 23 m. NW. of London; noted for its straw-plaiting, and has paper-mills, foundries, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 10,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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