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Adeyfield, Hemel Hempstead — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Adeyfield is the neighbourhood where Hemel Hempstead's postwar new town began, built out in Hertfordshire around Queens Square.
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Where to stay in Adeyfield
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
Almost no lodging carries an Adeyfield address. Queens Square is the practical anchor, a parade of shops with St Barnabas beside it, though a neighbourhood laid out for its own households rather than for travellers leaves most rooms toward central Hemel Hempstead. Homefield Road set the pattern.
Its houses went to tenants rather than guests, so a visitor books in the town centre and treats Adeyfield as somewhere to walk out to.
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Queens Square
The Adeyfield parade Queen Elizabeth II visited in 1952, with the church rising beside it. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in Queens Squareseeing where the Hemel Hempstead new town beganHomefield Road
The street whose first finished houses were handed to their tenants in 1950. Beds are limited here, so book early.Find hotels in Homefield RoadHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Things to do in and around Hemel Hempstead
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Churches & Religious Sites
1- St Barnabas
Castles & Historic Sites
2- High Street Green Roman barrow Heritage
- Romano-Celtic temple complex at Wood Lane End, 280m SW of Woodwells Farm Heritage
Landmarks & Notable Places
3- Old Marlowes House Heritage
- Bennett's End House Heritage
- Little Marlowes House Heritage
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About Adeyfield
What are the main landmarks in Adeyfield?
St Barnabas stands over Queens Square, the shopping parade at the middle of Adeyfield. Two houses keep the Marlowes name, Old Marlowes House and Little Marlowes House, and Bennett's End House holds ground that the new town streets grew around rather than over. Archaeology fills in the rest.
A Roman barrow survives at High Street Green, and a Romano-Celtic temple complex was recorded at Wood Lane End, close to Woodwells Farm.
What is the history of Adeyfield?
Adeyfield came first. The postwar expansion of Hemel Hempstead started here, and in 1950 the keys to the earliest completed houses, on Homefield Road, were handed over to their tenants. Queen Elizabeth II came to Queens Square in 1952 to lay the first foundation slab of St Barnabas Church.
Much older ground lies beneath the estate, from the Roman barrow at High Street Green to the Romano-Celtic temple complex at Wood Lane End.
Where is Adeyfield?
The neighbourhood covers ground between Queens Square and the older names still carried on its edges, Wood Lane End, High Street Green, and Bennett's End.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Adeyfield?
Queens Square: shops and the short walk to St Barnabas. Homefield Road: seeing where the Hemel Hempstead new town began.
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Updated October 2026