This is linked together with the word 'mor', which signifies a marshy spot; Boxmoor's ancient watermeadows alongside the River Bulbourne are still a major feature of the locality.

Finds include pot boiler stones, bones of the wild ox, Bos Primigenius and a hand-crafted grinding quern made of the hard local rock known as Hertfordshire puddingstone.

The remains of a Roman villa have been found in the grounds of Boxmoor House School, near the railway station, dating from around the 1st or early 2nd century AD.

Boxmoor village itself was developed after 1837 when the London and Birmingham Railway was forced, by local landed interests, to build its main line and station about a mile to the west of Hemel town.

Hemel Hempstead railway station, originally called Boxmoor, offered fast commuting to London combined with a small country town life, attractive to wealthier commuters; this stimulated the development of Victorian era housing near the station, but outside of the original bounds of Hemel Hempstead.

[5] The area has little industry and limited commerce but its mostly Victorian family houses are in demand for those who work elsewhere in Hemel Hempstead and especially commuters who use the railway station to reach London in around 30 minutes.

Due to the flexibility of the space, the Company also holds social events such as quiz nights, creative workshops and cabaret evenings.

[7][8][9][10] Robert Snooks became, in 1802, the last highwayman to be hanged and buried at the scene of his crime, after he robbed a postboy on the turnpike on Boxmoor meadows.

His remains are interred in Boxmoor meadows near the place where he was hanged and the likely spot is marked by two stones, erected by the Box Moor Trust in 1904.

Rock musician and producer Steven Wilson spent his childhood in Boxmoor, and for many years maintained his No Man's Land studio in his former bedroom in his parents’ bungalow.