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Box Lane, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP3 0DF

Looking towards the junction with London Road from the junction with Copper Beech Close on the outskirts of Hemel Hempstead.

The wall surrounds the pub garden.

This public house on London Road survived to about 2010 before succumbing to the fall-off in pub trade. It has been an antiques shop since 2011 and the shop's website is here http://www.swanantiquesboxmoor.com/ The building dates back to 1690 and is Grade II Listed. The English Heritage website describes it thus:- "C18. Painted brick and stucco, old tiled hipped roof with eaves cornice. L plan, 2 storeys. 3 light casement window and canted sashed bay on left, small similar bay to projecting wing on right. Wooden porch in angle. Sash window to 1st floor on right. Glazing bars to all windows."

Closed to traffic, the lane carries a footpath beneath the railway embankment.

This is by the old A41 looking towards the new A41 behind the fence across the field.

Herdsman's Moor is reputedly so called because it was the site of the original Herdsman's Cottage that was demolished to make way for the A41 bypass, a road sign on which can be seen to the right of the photograph.

Getting off the A41 dual carriageway at Bourne End and continuing towards Hemel on the A4251 (the old A41) I was stuck in a slow moving queue up to the lights where the B4505 joins. Along the road here there are a few commercial properties and several houses and this overgrown plot of land with an old metal fence in front of it. I'd never noticed it before. I have a feeling that there used to be a building on this site, or perhaps I'm wrong and it has never been developed. I might try to find out !

I remember regularly driving along here before it was bypassed by the new dual carriageway, this was the A41 and is now the A4251, approaching Hemel Hempstead Station.

Although cut off by the railway embankment on the right, this is a continuation of the meadows beside the River Bulbourne,