Dacorum

For other uses, see Dacorum (disambiguation)}}}.

Borough of Dacorum
Shown within Hertfordshire
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	East of England
Admin. County:	Hertfordshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 183rd 212.48 km²
Admin. HQ:	Hemel Hempstead
ONS code:	26UC
Demographics
Population: - Total () - Density	Ranked {{EnglishDistrictRank / km²
Ethnicity:	95.4% White 2.1% S.Asian
Politics
Dacorum Borough Council http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MPs:	David Gauke Mike Penning both Conservative

Dacorum is a local government district and borough in Hertfordshire, England. It includes the towns of Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, and Tring. The district is entirely parished, apart from Hemel Hempstead.

The District of Dacorum was formed in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 by the amalgamation of 7 smaller local authorities, each symbolised in the 7 oak leaves in the centre of the coat of arms. They were :

The Municipal Borough of Hemel Hempstead,
Berkhamsted urban district,
Tring urban district,
Berkhamsted Rural District,
Hemel Hempstead Rural District,
Part of the St Albans Rural District
Part of Watford Rural District.

Dacorum became a borough on 1st April, 1984.

It takes its name from the old hundred of Dacorum which covered approximately the same area. The name of the hundred, first recorded in 1196, is simply the Latin for "of the Danes", since the hundred lies at the margin of the Danelaw, the southern boundary of which was formed by the River Lea. This hundred was a combination of the two Domesday Book hundreds of Tring and Danais.

It had a population of 137,799 at the 2001 census.

The Borough is twinned with the town of Neu-Isenburg in Germany. Berkhamsted is twinned separately with Beaune (France) and Kings Langley with Baku (Ghana).

Political representation

The council is made up of 52 seats.

Representation at March 2004 is as follows:-

Conservative 32 - drawing support largely from the better off parts of Hemel Hempstead and the surrounding rural areas.
Labour 14 - drawing support largely from the post war estates of Hemel Hempstead new town
Liberal Democrat 6 - drawing support largely from the smaller towns of Tring and Berkhamsted

External links

Districts of the East of England
Babergh \| Basildon \| Bedford \| Braintree \| Breckland \| Brentwood \| Broadland \| Broxbourne \| Cambridge \| Castle Point \| Chelmsford \| Colchester \| Dacorum \| East Cambridgeshire \| East Hertfordshire \| Epping Forest \| Fenland \| Forest Heath \| Great Yarmouth \| Harlow \| Hertsmere \| Huntingdonshire \| Ipswich \| King's Lynn and West Norfolk \| Luton \| Maldon \| Mid Bedfordshire \| Mid Suffolk \| North Hertfordshire \| North Norfolk \| Norwich \| Peterborough \| Rochford \| St Albans \| St Edmundsbury \| South Bedfordshire \| South Cambridgeshire \| Southend-on-Sea \| South Norfolk \| Stevenage \| Suffolk Coastal \| Tendring \| Three Rivers \| Thurrock \| Uttlesford \| Watford \| Waveney \| Welwyn Hatfield
Counties with multiple districts: Bedfordshire - Cambridgeshire - Essex - Hertfordshire - Norfolk - Suffolk

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