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Markyate

A5 village on the Bedfordshire border

Not a Hemel suburb

A linear village on the old Watling Street, close to the Chilterns and the Central Bedfordshire border, with Markyate Cell in the parkland behind.

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Countryside on the northern edge of Dacorum near Markyate

Planning

New planning documents lock in the shape of Hemel Garden Communities

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

Diary

Nothing dated for Markyate from today forward. Submit an event if we have missed one.