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In 1991, the service became an executive agency as the United Kingdom Passport Agency (UKPA). The Identity and Passport Service was established on 1 April 2006, following the passing of the Identity Cards Act 2006, which merged the UK Passport Service with the Home Office's Identity Cards programme to form a new executive agency.
The HP postcode area, also known as the Hemel Hempstead postcode area, [2] is a group of twenty-four postcode districts in England, within eleven post towns.These cover south-west Hertfordshire (including Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring) and central Buckinghamshire (including Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Beaconsfield, Amersham, Chalfont St Giles, Chesham, Great Missenden and Princes ...
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Hemel Hempstead (/ ˌ h ɛ m əl ˈ h ɛ m p s t ɪ d /) is a town in the Dacorum district in Hertfordshire, England.It is located 24 miles (39 km) north-west of London; nearby towns include Watford, St Albans and Berkhamsted.
The original route from Hemel Hempstead to St Albans followed the course of what is now the A4147, then from St Albans to Hatfield on the course of what are now the A1057 and B6426. The villages of Cole Green , Birch Green , and Staines Green were bypassed in the 1990s by a new dual carriageway that linked into the 1970s Hertingfordbury bypass.
In its current form (post-2024 boundary changes), the seat covers the new town of Hemel Hempstead which is a significant employment centre, as well as a rural area of the Chilterns to the south-west, including the villages of Bovingdon and Flaunden. Residents are slightly wealthier than the UK average.
Felden is home to the national headquarters of The Boys' Brigade UK & RoI, Felden Lodge. [1] Felden Water Tower opened in 1910 is an octagonal brick tower with a fanciful fairytale appearance. It is 80 feet (24 m) tall and contains 50,600 imp gal (230,000 L) of water. [2] Plans were made to redevelop the building in 2007. [3]