Hempstead, Essex

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Hempstead is a village in Essex

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Hempstead within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Hempstead in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Hempstead.-- par. and vil., W. Essex, 6½ miles SE. of Saffron Walden, 3591 ac., pop. 631; P.O.; Dr William Harvey (1578-1657), the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, is buried here.

Hempstead in the Domesday Book

A village in Freshwell hundred, in the county of Essex.

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