Dacorum is in Hertfordshire, the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode HP4 2QF), in the parish of Nettleden with Potten End.

How do I get to Dacorum?

The nearest railway station is Berkhamsted, about 2.1 km away. Drivers can use postcode HP4 2QF.

Dacorum is owned by Dacorum Borough Council.

Is Dacorum a protected site?

Yes — Dacorum is part of the Chilterns National Landscape (AONB).

How do I get to Dacorum?

The nearest railway station is Berkhamsted, about 2.1 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode HP4 2QF.

Museums · East of England

Dacorum

In or near Ashridge.

♿ Wheelchair: limited

National Trust sign, Little Heath - geograph.org.uk - 1910929 — Graham Hale — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1.5 h–3 h
Best time of year: Year-round
Nearest railway station: Berkhamsted · 2.1 km

Family-friendly
Limited wheelchair access

Getting there & planning your visit

To visit Dacorum, the nearest railway station is Berkhamsted, located 2.1 km away. The postcode for sat-nav is HP4 2QF. Accessibility is limited for wheelchair users.

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Dacorum is a local government district with borough status in Hertfordshire, England. The council is based in Hemel Hempstead. The borough also includes the towns of Berkhamsted and Tring and surrounding villages. The borough had a population of 155,081 in 2021. Dacorum was created in 1974 and is named after the medieval "hundred" (a type of county division) of Dacorum, which had covered a similar area. The borough of Dacorum is the westernmost of Hertfordshire's ten districts. It borders St Albans, Three Rivers, Buckinghamshire and Central Bedfordshire.

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Protected designations

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Chilterns

Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.

From the Wikipedia article

Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.

Background

History

Dacorum was one of the hundreds of Hertfordshire. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the area was recorded as two separate hundreds: Danais (meaning "of the Danes") and Tring. The name Danais relates to a period in Saxon times when the area formed part of the Danelaw, which covered much of what is now eastern England, although the duration and extent of Danish presence in Hertfordshire remain uncertain and continue to be debated by historians. By about 1200 the two hundreds had merged into a single hundred, which from 1196 onward was increasingly recorded in Latin as Dacorum ("of the Dacians"). After the mid-13th century, Dacorum completely replaced the older names. From the seventeenth century…

Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Coordinates: 51.7667, -0.5333
County: Hertfordshire
District: Dacorum
Parish: Nettleden with Potten End
Postcode: HP4 2QF
Parliamentary constituency: Harpenden and Berkhamsted
Nearest railway station: Berkhamsted — 2.1 km

Sources

wikipedia: Dacorum (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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