Borough-wide
Best Independent Shops in Dacorum
Dacorum Daily’s borough-wide guide to the best independent shops: from Hemel Hempstead’s neighbourhood parades to Berkhamsted High Street and the village pubs in between.
We start with places we would send a friend. When a village has no honest equivalent, we say so and point to the next town. That is how you build trust, and how you eventually rank.
Independents first. Anchors listed when they keep the street alive.
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Bovingdon
Bovingdon Market
Huge Saturday outdoor market on the airfield edge: plants, tools, clothes, food.
Berkhamsted
Waitrose Berkhamsted
The town’s grocery anchor, sitting on the canal with a footbridge into the centre.
Hemel Hempstead
The Marlowes
Hemel’s pedestrian shopping spine: chains, services, and a town centre still finding its post-retail life.