Berkhamsted

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Berkhamsted
Old Town Hall, Berkamsted
Old Town Hall, Berkamsted
Coordinates 51 ° 46 ′  N , 0 ° 34 ′  W Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′  N , 0 ° 34 ′  W
OS National Grid SP993077
Berkhamsted (England)
Berkhamsted
Berkhamsted
Residents 18,015 (as of 2011)
administration
Post town BERKHAMSTED
ZIP code section HP4
prefix 01442
Part of the country England
region East of England
Shire county Hertfordshire
District Dacorum
Civil Parish Berkhamsted
British Parliament South West Hertfordshire
Berkhamsted High Street.
Berkhamsted Railway Station (1838).

Berkhamsted [ ˈbɜ: kəmstɛd ] is a historic parish in England with around 19,000 inhabitants today. The place is in the west of Hertfordshire between the places Tring and Hemel Hempstead . The River Bulbourne flows through the place. Berkhamsted belongs to the district or Borough Dacorum .

The place name has undergone a number of changes over the centuries, the current form dates from 1937, previously the parish was called Berkhampstead , Great Berkhamsted and Berkhamstead, among others .

Berkhamsted is home to the British Film Institute 's National Film and Television Archive .

history

Berkhamsted was the end point of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, when William the Conqueror waited for the subjugation of London and the remaining Anglo-Saxon nobility after his campaign .

Berkhamsted Castle was rebuilt in stone in the 1080s and became the preferred abode of kings from the Rollonid and Plantagenet families . It remained a royal castle until it was abandoned in 1495. The population used the stones from the castle, of which little is left today.

Berkhamsted has the oldest surviving shop in Great Britain, dendrochronologically dated between 1277 and 1297. There is evidence that it was a jeweler or goldsmith's shop (173, High Street).

Personalities

Town twinning

Berkamsted maintains the following city ​​partnership :

Web links

Commons : Berkhamsted  - collection of images, videos and audio files