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

Dacorum is owned by Dacorum Borough Council.

How do I get to Dacorum?

Drivers can navigate to postcode HP4 2QF. It sits within the Harpenden and Berkhamsted parliamentary constituency.

Museums · West Midlands

Dacorum

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Typical visit: 1.5 h–3 h
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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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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…

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

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Where is Dacorum?: Dacorum is in Hertfordshire, the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode HP4 2QF), in the parish of Nettleden with Potten End.
Who owns Dacorum?: Dacorum is owned by Dacorum Borough Council.
How do I get to Dacorum?: Drivers can navigate to postcode HP4 2QF. It sits within the Harpenden and Berkhamsted parliamentary constituency.

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