Borough-wide
Best Parks in Dacorum
Dacorum Daily’s borough-wide guide to the best parks: 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.
Benches, bins, biodiversity, and whether you would let a child run.
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Hemel Hempstead
Gadebridge Park
Hemel’s principal park: river, play, events, and now a dog wash.
Hemel Hempstead
Jellicoe Water Gardens
Grade II listed 1962 landscape by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, restored in 2017.
Berkhamsted
Berkhamsted Castle
Norman motte-and-bailey beside the station: free, ruined, endlessly climbable.
Berkhamsted
Ashridge Estate
5,000 acres of National Trust Chiltern woodland, monument and deer.
Tring
Tring Reservoirs
Four summit reservoirs: Wilstone, Startops, Marsworth, Tringford: for birds and a long loop.
Hemel Hempstead
Boxmoor Trust lands
Grazing, river and common between Hemel and the bypass: a softer New Town edge.