Borough-wide
Best Walks in Dacorum
Dacorum Daily’s borough-wide guide to the best walks: 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.
Mud, waymarks, a pint or a bus at the end, and whether the car park is a trap.
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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.
Tring
Aldbury village and pond
Stocks, pond, timber frames: the Chiltern village everyone already photographed.
Hemel Hempstead
Boxmoor Trust lands
Grazing, river and common between Hemel and the bypass: a softer New Town edge.