Leverstock Green

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Leverstock Green is a village in the English county of Hertfordshire. 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 (

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.^{[citation needed]} 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 and is^[

(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 club Leverstock Green F.C., which plays at Pancake Lane.

References

1. ^ Historic England. "Church of Holy Trinity (Grade II) (1342163)". National Heritage List for England.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leverstock Green.

• The Leverstock Green Chronicle A detailed history of one village in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, by Barbara Chapman. Accessed November 2006
• Leverstock Green Village Association
• Leverstock Green Football Club
• Leverstock Green Cricket Club

51°45′N 0°26′W / 51.750°N 0.433°W / 51.750; -0.433

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