Boxmoor
Early-attested site in the Parish of Hemel Hempstead
Historical Forms
- Boxmoore 1638 Halsey
- Boxemore 1650 ParlSurv
Etymology
Boxmoor is Boxmoore 1638Halsey , Boxemore 1650ParlSurv .Cf. also Box comon , peice , Boxcroft 1623LRMB , showing that the box tree must have been common in this district. Professor Salisbury notes that there are very few box-trees here now.Box on the hills near Tring was exploited for supplying the London block-makers and it may be that the trees near Boxmoor were similarly used (cf. Salisbury in HNHS (1924), p. 54).
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Chaulden Ho
- Counters End
- Tilekiln Fm
- Adeyfield
- Bohemia
- Claydales Cottages
- Coxpond Fm
- Two Beeches
- Bury Mill End
- Corner Hall
- Crouchfield
- Eastbrook Hay
- Felden
- Frogmore End
- Gadebridge
- Green End
- Hammerfield
- Handpost Fm
- Highstreet Green
- Hillend
- Lockers Park
- Maylands Wood
- Millfield
- Moor End
- Oatfield
- Pouchen End
- Roughdown
- Southill
- Thrift Wood
- Two Waters
- Wardsend
- Winkwell
- Woodhall