Harpenden Building Society


The Harpenden Building Society is an English building society, which has its Head Office in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. It is the 38th largest in the United Kingdom based on total assets of £315 million at 31 December 2017. It is a member of the Building Societies Association.

History

The society was formed in 1953. An agency office was opened in Stopsley in Luton in 2008; in September 2010 a fourth branch opened in Wendover, with a fifth in Tring in January 2011 and sixth in Buckingham in March 2011. The Wendover and Buckingham branches were closed in 2020, explaining they were the "smallest and least utilised branches".
In 2015, 2016, and since 2017, each year it has won the What Mortgage Award for Best Local Building Society.

Cultural references

The Harpenden Building Society is mentioned in The Poems of Ewen McTeagle, in Monty Python's Big Red Book.