Hemel Hempstead Skip Hire | Hemel Hempstead Waste Recycling | Hemel Hempstead Licensed Waste Carriers

Stevenage Skip Hire have been taking good care of our customers for many years now. Whatever your waste requirements may be, Stevenage Skip Hire have the perfect size skip to match the job in hand. Don't forget, we supply skips for commercial or domestic clients, recycle waste, sort out the skip permits and are Environment Agency approved. Stevenage Skip Hire operate a same day skip drop off and collection service throughout Hemel Hempstead. Our skip hire prices are very competitive, so call us today!

A skip to hire in Hemel Hempstead

Nobody wants to spend their valuable time lugging carload after carload of rubbish to the local tip. This activity has been the unofficial pastime of the British for many years. As soon as the weather starts to improve, we dig out our old and tatty clothing and head for the tip with all the rubbish that has built up in our sheds, lofts and gardens over the previous few months.

The problem is that today, a simple trip to the tip is no longer a simple affair. There are far more regulations that have to be followed and govern what can and can't be disposed of there. This can be quite frustrating if you've spent hours loading up your car and waiting in line at the tip, only to be turned away again because they don't accept your particular type of waste.

To add insult to injury, some people have even been turned away because they have used a van to save getting their car interior messy. A van will often be seen as a commercial vehicle, meaning that the tip operators are likely to insist on a waste carriers licence, even though you are only trying to dispose of domestic waste.

Where is Hemel Hempstead?

Hemel Hempstead is in the Dacorum district in Hertfordshire. Hemel Hempstead is just twenty four miles north-west of London; nearby towns and cities include Watford, St Albans and Berkhamsted.

Hemel Hempstead has existed since at least the 8th century and was granted its town charter by Henry VIII in 1539, who is believed to have courted Anne Boleyn in a pub in Hemel Hempstead old town. Hemel Hempstead has expanded and developed in recent decades after being designated as a new town after the end of the Second World War.

The origin of the Hemel Hempstead name

The settlement was called Henamsted or Hean-Hempsted in Anglo-Saxon times and Hemel-Amstede by the time of William the Conqueror. The name is referred to in the Domesday Book as Hamelamestede, but in later centuries it became Hamelhamsted, and, possibly, Hemlamstede. In Old English, -stead or -stede simply meant "place", such as the site of a building or pasture, as in clearing in the woods. This suffix is used in the names of other English places, such as Hamstead and Berkhamsted.

One theory suggests that a previous name for the settlement became corrupted to something similar to Hempstead, and that Hemel originated as a way of specifying Hemel Hempstead, as opposed to nearby Berkhamsted. Hemel is reflected in the German word 'Himmel' and Dutch word 'Hemel', both of which mean 'heaven' or 'sky', so it could be that Hemel Hempstead was in a less-forested area that was open to the sky, while Berkhamsted which could mean 'birch', reflected in the Dutch spelling of berk was in a forest of birch trees.

Another suggestion is that Hemel came from Haemele, the name of the district in the 8th century, and was most likely either the name of the landowner or meant "broken country".

The town is now known to locals as Hemel. However, before the Second World War locals called it Hempstead. Emigrants from Hemel Hempstead, led by John Carman, settled in the American colonies in the early 17th century and founded the town of Hempstead, New York in 1644.

Early history of Hemel Hempstead

The first recorded mention of Hemel Hempstead is the grant of land at Hamaele by Offa, King of Essex, to the Saxon Bishop of London in 705 CE. Hemel Hempstead on its present site is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a vill, Hamelhamstede, with about one hundred inhabitants. The parish church of St Mary's was built in 1140, and is recognised as one of the finest Norman parish churches in the county. The church features an unusual two hundred foot tall spire, added in the 12th century, making it one of Europe's tallest.

After the Norman Conquest, Robert, Count of Mortain, the elder half-brother of William the Conqueror, was granted lands associated with Berkhamsted Castle which included Hemel Hempstead. The estates passed through several hands over the next few centuries including Thomas Becket in 1162. Hemel Hempstead was in the Domesday hundred of Danais, which by 1200 had been combined with the hundred of Tring to form the hundred of Dacorum. This maintained its court into the 19th century. In 1290, King John's grandson, the Earl of Cornwall, gave the manor of Hemel Hempstead to the religious order of the Bonhommes when he endowed the monastery at Ashridge.

Hemel Hempstead remained part of the monastery's estates until the Reformation and break-up of Ashridge in 1539. In the same year, Hemel Hempstead was granted a royal charter by Henry VIII to become a bailiwick with the right to hold a Thursday market and a fair on Corpus Christi Day. The first bailiff of Hemel Hempstead was William Stephyns in 1539. This also coincides with the time that Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn are reputed to have stayed in the town during their courtship.

A valuable Tudor find in Hemel Hempstead

In 1953, a collection of unusually fine medieval wall paintings dating from between 1470 and 1500 were discovered in a cottage in Piccotts End, a village on the outskirts of Hemel Hempstead. This same building had been converted into the first cottage hospital providing free medical services by Sir Astley Cooper in 1827.

In 1581, a group of local people acquired lands that are now referred to as Boxmoor from the Earl of Leicester to prevent their enclosure. These were transferred to trustees in 1594. These have been used for public grazing and they are administered by the Box Moor Trust.

Remains of Roman villa farming settlements have been found at Boxmoor and Gadebridge which span the entire period of Roman Britain. A well-preserved Roman burial mound is located in Adeyfield. A major Romano-Celtic temple complex was unearthed at Wood Lane End in Maylands in 1966, confirming the clear settlement of Romans in Hemel Hempstead.

18th to mid 20th century in Hemel Hempstead

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Hemel Hempstead was an agricultural market town. Some wealthy landowners built some rather large country houses in the locality, including The Bury, built in 1790, and Gadebridge House in 1811.

As the Industrial Revolution gained momentum, commercial travel between the Midlands and London increased considerably. Hemel Hempstead was located on a direct route between these areas of industry and commerce and this made it a natural waypoint for trade and travel between the two. Initially the Sparrows Herne Turnpike Road was opened in 1762.

In 1793, construction began on the Grand Junction Canal, a major project to provide a freight waterway between the Midlands and the Port of London. In 1798, the canal from the Thames reached Two Waters, just south of Hemel Hempstead, and opened fully in 1805.

During the Second World War ninety high explosive bombs were dropped on Hemel Hempstead by the Luftwaffe. The most notorious incident was on 10 May 1942 when a stick of bombs demolished houses at Nash Mills killing eight people. The nearby John Dickinson & Co. factories which were used to produce munitions were the German Air Force target.

Claim back your spare time with a hired skip in Hemel Hempstead

So, if you live in or around the Hemel Hempstead area and you have a major tidy up planned, don't waste your valuable time travelling back and forth to the local recycling centre. Give us a call to discuss what size and type of skip would best suit your needs.

We will deliver your skip directly to your Hemel Hempstead property and collect it at an agreed time and date, giving you ample opportunity to fill it with all your unwanted waste materials. After all, life is simply too short to waste on such mundane and time consuming tasks!

Some of the services Stevenage Skip Hire provide in, and around, Hemel Hempstead:

• Skip Hire
• Waste Recycling
• Waste Management
• Envirowaste Recycling Centre
• Waste Disposal
• Domestic and Commercial Skip Hire
• Licensed Waste Carriers
• Environment Agency Approved
• Skip Permits Arranged
• Same Day Drop Off and Collection
• Aggregates For Sale

Further Information

If you would like to know more or are interested in a quote we would be happy to help. Phone us on 0203 780 2277, email us at info@stevenageskiphire.co.uk or fill in our contact form and we will be in touch as soon as possible.

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