Bovingdon · food
Bovingdon’s food culture is a Saturday market, a village high street and the pubs that serve both.
Market breakfasts are a genre. High-street takeaways do the evenings. Hemel is close enough that destination dining usually happens there: or in Chesham.
Do not attempt a casual High Street stop on a market Saturday without a parking plan.
Sandwiches first, scones second, room third. Instagram is not a criterion.
Bovingdon is small enough that an honest “best afternoon teas” list should admit gaps. These are the nearest Dacorum options we would actually send you to.
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97 High Street, Berkhamsted · Berkhamsted
The Gatsby occupies a 1930s cinema and has been Berkhamsted’s special-occasion dining room since 2005: à la carte, Sunday roast, cocktails and a piano. It is theatrical without being a tourist trap, and it still books out for birthdays. Come for the room as much as the plate.
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196 High Street, Berkhamsted · Berkhamsted
Copper House is the High Street’s polished independent: cocktails, weekend afternoon tea, Sunday roast and a dining room that works for a Friday night without requiring a christening. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays, which is a useful filter for people who live here rather than pass through.
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23 High Street, Hemel Hempstead · Hemel Hempstead
No visit to the Old Town is complete without deciding whether you are a Tea Tree person. Vintage room, proper afternoon tea, High Street window. It is unashamedly pretty, which Hemel’s New Town centre is not, and that is the whole appeal.
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Cow Lane, Tring · Tring
Pendley is Tring’s manor-house venue: weddings, a Shakespeare festival tradition, and a hotel stay that feels further from the A41 than it is. If you are planning a Dacorum wedding and want grounds, start here and at Ashridge.
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Ashridge, Little Gaddesden · Berkhamsted
The house is a separate operation from the National Trust landscape, which confuses visitors. You can walk the woods without entering the house; you cannot wander the state rooms because you parked for a walk. Weddings here are the full Chiltern fantasy.
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Planning
The developer presented land off Homefield to Bovingdon’s planning committee in June. Grange Farm is already discharging conditions on Green Lane. This serial will be filed from the register, not from other papers.
28 August 2026
Business
Before the retail parks, before the online van, there was a field on the airfield road. It is still there.
2 August 2026