Adeyfield: Tenzing Road
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Adeyfield: Tenzing Road
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 12 Apr 2009
Adeyfield was the first of Hemel Hempstead New Town's neighbourhoods to be developed, with construction starting around 1952. This road and its estate neighbours, Everest Way and Hillary Road, would have been named after the successful Everest summit-topping expedition team of May 1953. The denizens of Tenzing Road can sleep in their beds safe in the knowledge that Streetmap tells us that this is the only Tenzing Road in the country. Dacorum Borough Council have replaced most of the original road name plates in their area recently, so the one at the foot of the lamppost on the left here, with its faded gold letters on a blue background, is very much a survivor of an earlier time. Tenzing Norgay, or Sherpa Tenzing, died at the age of about 71 in 1986.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.755015
Longitude
-0.446306