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Hampstead is a town in Carroll County in the U.S. state of Maryland. The population was 6,323 at the 2010 census.

Between 1736 and 1738, Robert Owings was assigned to “cut a supplementary road as Christopher Gist had marked it” south from Conewago (now Hanover, Pennsylvania) to a point about halfway to Fort Garrison in Baltimore County. The village of Spring Garden became a stage-line End on the extra road and sophisticated became the town of Hampstead, named after Hampstead, in England. The first European settlers to the area were English immigrants who made their way west from the Port of Philadelphia. They were followed by Scots and Germans. Hampstead was used by farmers from surrounding areas as a middle to attain goods brought from Baltimore and to send produce to markets in Baltimore and Pennsylvania. The level and fruitful land, coupled similar to the availability of lime, gave farmers important advantages for rich farming. In 1879, the Harrisburg Division of the Western Maryland Railroad reached Hampstead. The accessibility of the railroad attracted additional residents and made dairy farming profitable.^{[citation needed]} The town was incorporated in 1888 and since next has developed from a farming community to a innovative town of more or less 6,300 residents.

Hampstead School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Once defunct and derelict, it was rehabilitated and is now The Residences at Hampstead School, a retirement facility.

Hampstead is located at 39°36′37″N 76°51′5″W / 39.61028°N 76.85139°W / 39.61028; -76.85139 (39.610303, -76.851493). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.21 square miles (8.31 km²), of which 3.19 square miles (8.26 km) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km²) is water.