Woodhall Farm is a neighbourhood on the northern side of

Hemel Hempstead Hemel Hempstead () is a town in the Dacorum district in Hertfordshire, England, northwest of London, which is part of the Greater London Urban Area. The population at the 2011 census was 97,500. Developed after the Second World War as a ne ...

in the county of

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. It was built on the former

Brocks Fireworks Brock's Fireworks Ltd is a manufacturer of fireworks, founded in London and subsequently based in Hemel Hempstead, Dumfriesshire and Norfolk. Brock's was founded in 1698 in Islington by John Brock, and is the oldest British firework manufacture ...

site. Its location on the edge of Hemel Hempstead means it has open fields to its north and east with the landscaped High Wood forming an integral green barrier and recreational space.

Development

Situated on the northern edge of Hemel Hempstead towards

Redbourn Redbourn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, lying on Watling Street, from Harpenden, from St Albans and from Hemel Hempstead. The civil parish had a population of 5,113 according to the 2011 Census. The three tiers of ...

, Woodhall Farm was built in the mid to late 1970s on the former Brock's Fireworks site with a mix of private and housing association stock. The builder was Fairview Estates and it has property ranging from 4 bedroom detached houses down to one bedroom low -rise flats. The area has a shopping centre with a

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Supermarket, Newsagents, Fish & Chip shop and Dry Cleaners and a Chemist shop. It also has two infant and middle schools and a doctors surgery serving the local area. At the 2011 census the area was included in the Apsley and Corner Hall Ward of Dacorum Council. Woodhall Farm is home to approximately 5,661 people, and in keeping with the new towns' (see

New towns in the United Kingdom The new towns in the United Kingdom were planned under the powers of the New Towns Act 1946 and later acts to relocate populations in poor or bombed-out housing following the Second World War. They were developed in three waves. Later developments ...

) ethos, Woodhall was built with an emphasis to provide a neighbourhood shopping complex to serve the local community. The neighbourhood returns two councillors to

Dacorum Borough Council The Borough of Dacorum is a local government district in Hertfordshire, England that includes the towns of Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring and Kings Langley. The district, which was formed in 1974, had a population of 137,799 in 2001. Its ...

.Three Counties Election
BBC, 2007 There are two primary schools servicing the area; Holtsmere End JMI and Brockswood Primary School. Nickey Line - geograph

The now closed Nickey Line railway is now redeveloped as a cycle path and linear green space and runs close to its southern border. Some of the residents of Woodhall Farm were affected by the Buncefield Oil Depot explosion in 2005, causing structural and superficial damage to many of the local houses and buildings.

References

External links

Woodhall Farm Community Centre
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