Bovingdon · food
Bovingdon’s food culture is a village high street and the pubs that serve it.
High-street takeaways do the evenings. Hemel is close enough that destination dining usually happens there: or in Chesham.
The Saturday outdoor market on the airfield closed in 2022. Do not plan a stall breakfast that is no longer there.
Cake that tastes of butter, ice cream that is not only a freezer brand, rooms that work after school.
Bovingdon is small enough that an honest “best dessert spots” list should admit gaps. These are the nearest Dacorum options we would actually send you to.
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189 High Street, Berkhamsted · Berkhamsted
GAIL’s is a chain, and Berkhamsted treated it as a civic event anyway. The bakery is useful: proper bread, coffee, highchairs, a pavement that works in March. Independent cafes further along the street still make the better flat white for some regulars: which is as it should be.
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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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