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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.
About Adeyfield
Where to stay in Adeyfield
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
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.
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.
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Updated September 2026