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{{short description|Local government district in England}}
{{distinguish|Decorum}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2018}}
{{Infobox settlement
|name              = Dacorum
|other_name        = Borough of Dacorum
|type              = [[Borough]] & [[Non-metropolitan district]]
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| image_caption    = [[Hemel Hempstead]] town centre
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|map_caption       = Dacorum shown within [[Hertfordshire]]
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|subdivision_type2 = [[Regions of England|Region]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[East of England]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[Administrative counties of England|Administrative county]]
|subdivision_name3 = [[Hertfordshire]]
|seat_type         = Admin.&nbsp;HQ
|seat              = [[Hemel Hempstead]]
|government_type   = [[Non-metropolitan district]]
|governing_body    = Dacorum Borough Council
|leader_title      = [[Local government in England#Councillors and mayors|Leadership]]:
|leader_name       = [[Cabinet-style council|Leader & Cabinet]]
|leader_title1     = [[List of MPs elected in the 2019 United Kingdom general election|MPs]]:
|leader_name1      = [[David Taylor (Hemel Hempstead MP)|David Taylor]] [[Labour Party (UK)|(L)]]<br>[[Victoria Collins]] [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|(LD)]]<br>[[Gagan Mohindra]] [[Conservative Party (UK)|(C)]]
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 {{Collapsible list
 | 86.8% [[White people in the United Kingdom|White]]
 | 5.8% [[British Asians|Asian]]
 | 3.4% [[Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)|Mixed]]
 | 2.8% [[Black British people|Black]]
 | 1.2% [[Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom|other]]
 }}
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 {{Collapsible list
 | 46.4% [[Religion in England#Christianity|Christianity]]
 | 41.1% [[Irreligion in the United Kingdom|no religion]]
 | 9.4% [[Religion in England|other]]
 | 3.1% [[Islam in England|Islam]]
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}}

'''Dacorum''' is a [[Non-metropolitan district|local government district]] with [[borough status in the United Kingdom|borough status]] in [[Hertfordshire]], England. The council is based in [[Hemel Hempstead]]. The borough also includes the towns of [[Berkhamsted]] and [[Tring]] and surrounding villages. The borough had a population of 155,081 in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Census 2021 Data |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021/report?compare=E07000096 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Dacorum was created in 1974 and is named after the medieval [[Hundred (county division)|"hundred"]] (a type of county division) of [[Danais (hundred)|Dacorum]], which had covered a similar area. The borough of Dacorum is the westernmost of Hertfordshire's ten districts. It borders [[St Albans City and District|St Albans]], [[Three Rivers District|Three Rivers]], [[Buckinghamshire Council|Buckinghamshire]] and [[Central Bedfordshire]].

==History==
Dacorum was one of the hundreds of Hertfordshire. In the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 the area was recorded as two separate hundreds: [[Danais (hundred)|Danais]] (meaning "of the Danes") and [[Tring]]. The name ''Danais'' relates to a period in [[Saxon]] times when the area formed part of the [[Danelaw]], which covered much of what is now eastern England, although the duration and extent of Danish presence in Hertfordshire remain uncertain and continue to be debated by historians.<ref name= TW>{{cite book |last=Williamson |first=Tom |title=The Origins of Hertfordshire |date=2010 |publisher=Hertfordshire Publications |isbn=978-1-905313-95-2 |location=Hatfield |pages=106, 226}}</ref>

By about 1200 the two hundreds had merged into a single hundred, which from 1196 onward was increasingly recorded in Latin as ''Dacorum'' ("of the [[Dacians]]"<ref>{{cite dictionary |title= Dācus: masculine noun II declension |dictionary= Online Latin Dictionary by Enrico Olivetti |publisher= Olivetti Media Communication |url= https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/latin-dictionary-flexion.php?lemma=DACUS200 |access-date= 10 August 2022}}</ref>). After the mid-13th century, ''Dacorum'' completely replaced the older names.<ref name= TW/> The substitution of ''Danais'' with ''Dacorum'' reflects a broader medieval usage in which the Latin name ''[[Dacia (Scandinavia) |Dacia]]'', originally denoting an [[Dacia|ancient territory of south-east Europe]] centred on modern [[Romania]], came to be applied to [[Denmark]] and later to [[Scandinavia]] as a whole. This geographical confusion was influenced by [[Jordanes]]' account that the [[Goths]], who had settled in Dacia in south-east Europe during the [[Migration Period]], had originally come from Scandinavia.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jakobsen |first=Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig |year=2012 |title=Why Dacia? |url=https://www.jggj.dk/Dacia.htm |access-date=2024-09-15 |website=www.jggj.dk}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Rix |first=Robert |title=The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination |date=2019 |publisher=Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture |isbn=978-0-367-87113-0 |pages=65-68}}</ref>

From the seventeenth century onwards, hundreds gradually declined in importance as administrative divisions, with their functions passing to other bodies such as the [[county court]]s. The final administrative functions of hundreds were extinguished in 1886.<ref>[[Riot (Damages) Act 1886]] (49 & 50 Vict. c. 38), s.2</ref>

The modern local government district of Dacorum was created on 1 April 1974 under the [[Local Government Act 1972]], covering the whole area of five former districts and parts of another two, which were all abolished at the same time:<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972|year=1972|number=2039|access-date=12 May 2023}}</ref>
*[[Berkhamsted Rural District]]
*[[Berkhamsted]] [[Urban district (England and Wales)|Urban District]]
*[[Hemel Hempstead]] [[Municipal Borough]]
*[[Hemel Hempstead Rural District]]
*[[St Albans Rural District]] (part within designated area of Hemel Hempstead [[New Towns in the United Kingdom|New Town]] only)
*[[Tring]] Urban District
*[[Watford Rural District]] (part within designated area of Hemel Hempstead New Town only)

The new district was named Dacorum after the medieval hundred, which had covered a similar area.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973|year=1973|number=551|access-date=12 May 2023}}</ref>

The district was granted [[borough status in the United Kingdom| borough status]] in 1984, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor. Hemel Hempstead had maintained [[Charter Trustees]] from 1974 to 1984. The amalgamation of the former local authorities was symbolised in the seven oak leaves which surround a [[Tudor rose]] on the Dacorum [[coat of arms]], issued in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=1525 |title=About Dacorum |access-date=13 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218202812/http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=1525 |archive-date=18 December 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Governance==
{{Infobox legislature
| name               = Dacorum Borough Council
| native_name        =
| transcription_name =
| legislature        =
| logo_pic           = Dacorum Borough Council.svg
| logo_res           = 140px
| house_type         = Non-metropolitan district council
| body               = 
| houses             =
| leader1_type       = [[Mayors in England|Mayor]]
| leader1            = Catherine McArevey
| party1             = <br/>[[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]]
| election1          = 14 May 2025<ref>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 14 May 2025 |url=https://democracy.dacorum.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=156&MId=3843 |website=Dacorum Borough Council |access-date=26 May 2025}}</ref>
| leader2_type       = [[Leader of the council|Leader]]
| leader2            = Sally Symington
| party2             = <br/>[[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]]
| election2          = 2 April 2025
| leader3_type       = [[Chief Executive]] (interim)
| leader3            = Darren Welsh
| party3             = <!-- Non-political role -->
| election3          = March 2025<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ford |first1=Martin |title=Borough council appoints interim chief |url=https://www.themj.co.uk/borough-council-appoints-interim-chief |access-date=29 March 2025 |work=Municipal Journal |date=6 March 2025}}</ref>
| house1             =
| seats              = 51 Councillors
| structure1         = Dacorum_Borough_Council_2023.svg
| structure1_res     = 250px
| political_groups1  = 
;Administration (18)
: {{nowrap|{{Color box|{{party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]] (18)}}
;Other parties (33)
: {{nowrap|{{Color box|{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] (18)}}
: {{nowrap|{{Color box|{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}|border=darkgray}} [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] (5)}}
: {{nowrap|{{Color box|{{party color|Independent}}|border=darkgray}} [[Independent politician|Independent]] (10)}}
| committees1        =
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| voting_system1     = [[Plurality voting system]]
| voting_system2     =
| last_election1     = [[2023 Dacorum Borough Council election|4 May 2023]]
| next_election1     = 6 May 2027
| session_room       = File:The Forum, Dacorum Borough Council.jpg
| session_res        = 250px
| meeting_place      = [[The Forum, Hemel Hempstead|The Forum]], Marlowes, [[Hemel Hempstead]], HP1{{nbsp}}1DN
| website            = {{url|http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/}}
| footnotes          =
|}}
Hertfordshire has a two-tier structure of local government, with the ten district councils (including Dacorum Borough Council) providing district-level services, and [[Hertfordshire County Council]] providing county-level services. Most of Dacorum is also covered by [[civil parish]]es, which form a third tier of local government in their areas.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1972|year=1972|chapter=70|access-date=3 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=29 March 2025}}</ref>

===Political control===
The [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]] won a majority of the seats on the council at the [[2023 Dacorum Borough Council election|2023 election]]. Following changes of allegiance, the party lost its majority in September 2024. Since then, the party has formed a minority administration.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Day |first1=Christopher |last2=Fullbrook |first2=Danny |title=Female councillors resign over harassment complaint |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6w394051lo |access-date=29 March 2025 |work=BBC News |date=26 September 2024}}</ref> Prior to 2023 the Conservatives had held a majority of the seats since 2003.

The first election to the council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council since 1974 has been as follows:<ref name=electionscentre>{{cite web |title=Compositions Calculator |url=https://www.electionscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/composition_calc.html |access-date=5 March 2025 |website=The Elections Centre |publisher=University of Exeter}} (Put "Dacorum" in search box to see specific results.)</ref><ref name=hold>{{cite news| url = https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/vote2007/councils/html/26uc.stm | title =Dacorum | access-date = 24 February 2010 | work = [[BBC Online]]}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="2"|Party in control!!Years
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || 1974–1976
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || 1976–1995
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || 1995–1999
|-
| {{Party name with colour|No overall control}} || 1999–2003
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || 2003–2023
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} || 2023–2024
|-
| {{Party name with colour|No overall control}} || 2024–present
|}

===Leadership===
The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Dacorum. Political leadership is instead provided by the [[leader of the council]]. The leaders since 1995 have been:

{| class=wikitable
! Councillor !! colspan=2|Party !! From !! To
|-
| Julia Coleman<ref>{{cite news |title=Tributes paid to former Hemel Hempstead Mayor Les Taber |url=https://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/news/tributes-paid-former-hemel-hempstead-mayor-les-taber-1322888 |access-date=15 May 2023 |work=Hemel Today |date=12 April 2017 |quote=Julia Coleman was the leader of Dacorum Borough Council from 1995 to 1999...}}</ref> || {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || align=right|1995 || align=right|1999
|-
| Andrew Williams<ref>{{cite news |title=Local elections 2023: Tories lose Dacorum, Hertsmere, East Herts and Welwyn Hatfield |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-65472154 |access-date=29 March 2025 |work=BBC News |date=5 May 2023}}</ref> || {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || align=right|1999 || align=right|May 2023
|-
| Ron Tindall<ref>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 17 May 2023 |url=https://democracy.dacorum.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=156&MId=3463 |website=Dacorum Borough Council |access-date=29 March 2025}}</ref><ref name=15May2024/> || {{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} || align=right|17 May 2023 || align=right|15 May 2024
|-
| Adrian England<ref name=15May2024>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 15 May 2024 |url=https://democracy.dacorum.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=156&MId=3836 |website=Dacorum Borough Council |access-date=29 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Holmes |first1=Amy |last2=Day |first2=Christopher |title=Council leader resigns after party investigation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gev0pjyvdo |access-date=2 May 2025 |work=BBC News |date=19 February 2025}}</ref> || {{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} || align=right|15 May 2024 || align=right|Feb 2025
|-
| Sally Symington<ref>{{cite web |title=Council minutes, 2 April 2025 |url=https://democracy.dacorum.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=156&MId=3842&Ver=4 |website=Dacorum Borough Council |access-date=2 May 2025}}</ref> || {{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}} || align=right|2 Apr 2025 || align=right|
|}

===Composition===
Following the [[2023 Dacorum Borough Council election|2023 election]] and subsequent by-elections and changes of allegiance up to November 2024, the composition of the council was:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2023/may/04/elections-2023-results-live-local-council-england#le-full-results|title=Local elections 2023: live council results for England|work=The Guardian|date=9 May 2023 |last1=Voce |first1=Antonio |last2=Leach |first2=Anna |last3=Hoog |first3=Niels de |last4=Torpey |first4=Paul |last5=Clarke |first5=Seán }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Boothroyd |first1=David |title=Somerset turns another Page |url=https://www.localcouncils.co.uk/2024/03/somerset-turns-another-page/ |access-date=11 May 2024 |work=Local Councils |publisher=Thorncliffe |date=29 March 2024}}</ref><ref name=Thorncliffe>{{cite web |title=Dacorum |url=https://www.localcouncils.co.uk/councils/?council=dacorum |website=Local Councils |publisher=Thorncliffe |access-date=29 March 2025}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! colspan=2| Party
! Councillors
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}
| align=center|18
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}}
| align=center|18
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}}
| align=center|5
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
| align=center|10
|-
! colspan=2|Total
! align=center|51
|}
The next election is due in 2027.<ref name=Thorncliffe/>

===Premises===
The council is based at The Forum on Marlowes in Hemel Hempstead. From the council's creation in 1974 until 2017, the council was based at Dacorum Civic Centre, also on Marlowes in Hemel Hempstead. That building had previously been called Hemel Hempstead Town Hall, having been built for Hemel Hempstead Borough Council in 1966 to replace the [[Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead|Old Town Hall]] on High Street. On 16 January 2017 the council opened its new headquarters at The Forum, on the corner of Marlowes and Combe Street, immediately south of the Civic Centre, which was demolished shortly afterwards.<ref>{{cite news |title=New £15m home for Dacorum Borough Council and library officially opens in Hemel Hempstead |url=https://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/news/new-aps15m-home-dacorum-borough-council-and-library-officially-opens-hemel-hempstead-748411 |access-date=25 December 2021 |work=Hemel Today |date=16 January 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Hemel Hempstead Civic Centre (geograph 7392439).jpg|thumb|Civic Centre, Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead: Council's headquarters 1974–2017, since demolished]]

==Elections==
{{also|Dacorum local elections}}
Since the last boundary changes in 2007 the council has comprised 51 [[councillor]]s, representing 25 [[wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom|wards]], with each ward electing one, two or three councillors. The whole council is elected together every four years.<ref name=2007order>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Borough of Dacorum (Electoral Changes) Order 2007|year=2007|number=139|access-date=17 May 2023}}</ref>

===Wards===
The borough's wards are:<ref name=2007order/>
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
* [[Adeyfield]] East
* Adeyfield West
* Aldbury and Wigginton
* Apsley and Corner Hall
* [[Ashridge]]
* [[Bennetts End]]
* [[Berkhamsted Castle]]
* Berkhamsted East
* Berkhamsted West
* Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield
* [[Boxmoor]]
* Chaulden and Warners End
* [[Gadebridge]]
* [[Grovehill]]
* [[Hemel Hempstead]] Town
* [[Highfield, Hertfordshire|Highfield]]
* [[Kings Langley]]
* [[Leverstock Green]]
* [[Nash Mills]]
* [[Northchurch]]
* Tring Central
* Tring East
* Tring West and Rural
* Watling
* [[Woodhall Farm]]
{{div col end}}

==Parishes==
Hemel Hempstead is an [[unparished area]]. The rest of the borough is divided into 16 [[civil parish]]es, with Berkhamsted and Tring parish councils taking the style "town council". The civil parishes are:<ref>{{cite web |title=Community connections |url=https://www.dacorum.gov.uk/home/community-living/community-connections/town-and-parish-council-websites |website=Dacorum Borough Council |access-date=17 May 2023}}</ref>
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
*[[Aldbury]]
*[[Berkhamsted]]
*[[Bovingdon]]
*[[Chipperfield]]
*[[Flamstead]]
*[[Flaunden]]
*[[Great Gaddesden]]
*[[Kings Langley]]
*[[Little Gaddesden]]
*[[Markyate]]
*[[Nash Mills]]
*[[Nettleden with Potten End]]
*[[Northchurch]]
*[[Tring]]
*[[Tring Rural]]
*[[Wigginton, Hertfordshire|Wigginton]]
{{div col end}}

==Arms==
{{Infobox COA wide
|image = Dacorum_Coat_of_Arms.svg
|escutcheon = Or seven oak leaves stalks inward Vert radiating from a Tudor rose Proper.
|crest = A sprig of seven oak leaves Proper and acorns Or inflected to the sinister out of a mural crown Or.
|mantling = Or and Gules.
|supporters = Two stags in trian aspect Proper attired and unguled Or gorged with a wreath Or and Gules ribbons flowing outward depending therefrom a bezant charged with oak leaves and a Tudor rose as in the Arms standing on a compartment Vert strewn with sprigs of oak leaves Proper and acorns Or.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://civicheraldry.co.uk/east_of_england.html |title=East of England Region |publisher=Civic Heraldry of England |accessdate=8 March 2021}}</ref>
|notes = Granted 21 January 1992.}}
==Media==
In terms of television, Dacorum is served by [[BBC London]] and [[ITV London]] with television signals received from the [[Crystal Palace transmitting station|Crystal Palace]] transmitter <ref>{{cite web | url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Crystal_Palace|title=Full Freeview on the Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) transmitter| date=May 2004 }}</ref>  and the [[Hemel Hempstead]] relay transmitter.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Hemel_Hempstead | title=Hemel Hempstead (Hertfordshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | date=May 2004 }}</ref> However, [[Tring]] receives regional overlaps of both [[Sandy Heath transmitting station|Sandy Heath]] ([[BBC East]]/[[ITV Anglia]]) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Sandy_Heath|title=Full Freeview on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=21 April 2024}}</ref> and [[Oxford transmitting station|Oxford]] ([[BBC South]]/[[ITV Meridian]]) transmitters. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Oxford|title=Full Freeview on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate= 21 April 2024}}</ref> 

Radio stations for the area are:
*[[BBC Three Counties Radio]]
*[[Heart Hertfordshire]]
*[[Greatest Hits Radio Bucks, Beds and Herts]] (covering Tring)
*[[Mix 92.6]]
*Community-based radio stations: Radio Dacorum <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.radiodacorum.org.uk/ |title=Radio Dacorum  |access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref> and Tring Radio <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tringradio.co.uk/|title=Tring Radio|access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref>

Local newspapers are ''[[Hemel Hempstead Gazette & Express|Hemel Hempstead Gazette]]'' and ''St Albans Observer''.

==Town twinning==
*The Borough of Dacorum is [[Town twinning|twinned]] with:
**{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Neu-Isenburg]], Germany

Two of the [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]]es in the borough also maintain their own separate twinning arrangements:

*[[Berkhamsted]] Town Council is twinned with:
**{{flagicon|France}} [[Beaune]] (France)
*[[Kings Langley]] Parish Council with:
**{{flagicon|Gambia}} [[Bakau, Gambia|Bakau]] ([[Gambia]]).

==See also==
{{Portal|England}}

*[[Primary schools in Dacorum]]

==References==
{{notelist}}
{{reflist}}

===Sources===
*[http://www.dacorumheritage.org.uk/ The Dacorum Heritage Trust] The Trust is the museum organisation for the Borough of Dacorum.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041019163719/http://www.hertsmuseums.org.uk/dacorum/page2.htm Hertfordshire Museums] More local museums.

==External links==
*[http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/ Dacorum Borough Council - official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410110649/http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/ |date=10 April 2014 }}
* [http://www.dens.org.uk/ Dacorum Emergency Night Shelter - Night Shelter, Day Centre, Foodbank, Rent Aid,warehouse ]
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