Markyate · family
Cell Park, village play, and the Chilterns within a short drive.
Markyate is quiet in the way families sometimes mean when they say they want quiet.
There is no Snow Centre here. There is also no Magic Roundabout.
Rooms, grounds, and the gap between the brochure and a wet Saturday in February.
Markyate is small enough that an honest “best wedding venues” list should admit gaps. These are the nearest Dacorum options we would actually send you to.
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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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High Street, Hemel Hempstead · Hemel Hempstead
Norman work, a steep churchyard, and the visual full stop at the top of the Old Town. Services, concerts, civic occasions. If you are new to Hemel, walk here before you walk the Marlowes.
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Planning
Supplementary Planning Documents for the HGC area are now adopted. They will guide neighbourhoods, infrastructure and the long argument about how Hemel grows north.
25 June 2026