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.
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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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