hemel-hempstead

Updated: March 13, 2026

For instance, a stone coffin, supposed to contain the dust of the fierce Offa, who died A. D. 796, was dug up, when more than a thousand years had passed away, in the year 1836, at Hemel-Hempstead, with the name Offa rudely carved upon it.

A. D. (Augustine David) Crake - Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune : A Tale of the Days of Saint Dunstan