When Berkhamsted joined Hemel Hempstead and Tring in Dacorum the new Borough Council in Hemel Hempstead drew plans to demolish the site.

In 1974, the government abolished the Borough of Hemel Hempstead and the town was incorporated into Dacorum District Council along with Tring and Berkhamsted.

In the 1980s, Dacorum District Council successfully lobbied to be recognised as the successor for the Royal Charter establishing the Borough of Hemel Hempstead and thus regained the Mayor and its Aldermen and became Dacorum Borough Council.

They have operated several facilities including a Sports Centre, Swimming Pools and Running Track previously run by Dacorum Borough Council and others sited at schools, since April 2004.

The local authority ( Dacorum Borough Council ) provides the infrastructure for several of the sports mentioned above.

Hemel Hempstead has several swimming clubs the most notable of which is Hemel Hempstead Swimming Club, the town also has FIFOLITS Swimming club and also boasts a swimming squad Dacorum Borough Swimming Squad which brings together the best swimmers in the Borough.

Hemel Hempstead, as part of the Borough of Dacorum, is twinned with:

* Bill Morris OJ ( born 1938 ), former leader of the TGWU, lived in Hemel Hempstead and still lives within the Borough of Dacorum.

* Dacorum Borough Council Local authority pages on Hemel Hempstead.

The village is divided between two local government districts by the River Gade with the larger western portion in the Borough of Dacorum and smaller part, to the east of the river, in Three Rivers District.

Aldbury Parish Council is the local administrative body and covers Aldbury village itself and the hamlet at Tring Station-in Saxon times, Aldbury lay in Dacorum, one of the Hundreds of Hertfordshire and in 1973, the Dacorum Borough of Hertfordshire was created with Aldbury in it.

Nash Mills is a civil parish within Hemel Hempstead and Dacorum Borough Council on the northern side of the Grand Union Canal, formerly the River Gade, and in the southernmost corner of Hemel Hempstead.

Part of the Dacorum Borough Council district ( centred on Hemel Hempstead ), it has Luton ( 01582 ) phone numbers and a St Albans postal code ( AL3 ).

Westwick Row today is a narrow rural lane in the village of Leverstock Green, part of it is within the jurisdiction of St Albans Rural District Council, and part with Dacorum Borough Council.

During the 1970s the Commission for New Towns and Dacorum Borough Council invested in developing sheltered housing provision for the elderly in the town-a ground-breaking development at the time.

It is also a civil parish with a designated Town Council within the administrative district ( and borough since 1984 ) of Dacorum.

Berkhamsted is twinned with Beaune, France and as part of Dacorum with Neu Isenburg, Germany.

Symeon was author of two historical works which are particularly valuable for northern affairs, the Libellus de Exordio atque Procursu istius, hoc est Dunelmensis, Ecclesie ( The Little Book on the Origins and Progress of this Church, that is of Durham ) and a historical compilation Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum.

It is part of the district ( and borough since 1984 ) of Dacorum and the Hemel Hempstead constituency.

Dacorum Sports Trust is a non-profit company limited by guarantee and a registered charity managed by a Board of Trustees.

Dacorum Athletic Club is based at Jarmans Park.

A list of schools taking children of primary age is at Primary schools in Dacorum.

Nettleden with Potten End is a civil parish in Dacorum District.

Bovingdon is a large village in Hertfordshire, England, four miles south-west of Hemel Hempstead and it is a civil parish within the local authority area of Dacorum.

Adeyfield is home to Adeyfield School, the major secondary school in the area and two primary schools ( see Primary schools in Dacorum ).

Tring and Danais became one, Dacorum, from ( Danis Corum or Danish rule harking back to a Viking not Saxon past ).

Category: People from Dacorum ( district )

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Hertfordshire the Boundary Commission for England have recommended the creation of a modified Hemel Hempstead seat for the 2010 general election formed from the following electoral wards from the district of Dacorum:

A bar in the nearby Dacorum Pavilion in Hemel Hempstead ( since demolished ) was named after Snooks, and used the silhouette of a mounted highwayman as its sign.

The 1st XI Senior football team had a very successful 07 / 08 season having claimed the Dacorum district cup ( after defeating Hemel Hempstead School 5-2 ) and finishing top of the premier division in the Hertfordshire county league.

* Remfry, Paul, Berkhamsted Castle, Dacorum Heritage Trust, 1998, ISBN 0-9510944-1-6

Most sports facilities in the town, and the wider borough, are provided through Sportspace ( the operating name of Dacorum Sports Trust ).

The least deprived districts, in descending order, are South Cambridgeshire, Uttlesford, Mid Bedfordshire, East Hertfordshire, St Albans, Brentwood, Rochford, Chelmsford, Huntingdonshire, Mid Suffolk, Broadland, North Hertfordshire, Dacorum, Three Rivers, South Norfolk, East Cambridgeshire and Suffolk Coastal.

Perhaps the distinctions between dragons of western origin and Chinese dragons are arbitrary, since the later Roman dragon was certainly of Iranian origin: in the Roman Empire, where each military cohort had a particular identifying signum, ( military standard ), after the Parthian and Dacian Wars of Trajan in the east, the Dacian Draco military standard entered the Legion with the Cohors Sarmatarum and Cohors Dacorum ( Sarmatian and Dacian cohorts )— a large dragon fixed to the end of a lance, with large gaping jaws of silver and with the rest of the body formed of colored silk.

About 1129 Symeon undertook to write a Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum.

The Sayreville Emergency Squad has been offering rescue services to the Borough since its formation in 1936 and has had a dedicated extrication crash truck as early as the 1940s.

The Borough of Totowa First Aid Squad was founded in 1951 to provide a free, volunteer based service to the residents of Totowa.

The Borough of Totowa First Aid Squad Auxiliary was also formed to help raise funds to support and benefit the first aid squad.

Rocky Hill First and Rescue Squad is currently covering two 12-hour shifts on the weekend ( and attempting to scramble crews at other times ), but primary EMS coverage for the Borough is currently being provided by Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad-Station 168, with Montgomery EMS-Station 47 EMS providing secondary back-up ( MEMS also provided 7 months of primary coverage prior to PFARS.

The archbishop's main residence is Lambeth Palace in the London Borough of Lambeth.

Due to its size Accrington is represented by a number of wards in the Borough of Hyndburn.

One of the most important pieces of the regeneration jigsaw for the Borough is reviving Accrington town centre.

The town centre is a principal engine of economic revival not only for all communities across the Borough, but also for Pennine Lancashire.

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The town is represented at Havant Borough Council by Councillors David Gillett, Brendan Gibb-Gray and Richard Galloway.

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Located in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in West London, Heathrow is the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the third busiest airport in the world ( as of 2012 ) in terms of total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe.

Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans: the Domesday Book refers to a new Borough: as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".

Hastings Borough Council is now in the second tier of local government, below East Sussex County Council.

The Borough is divided into sixteen electoral wards ; Ashdown, Baird, Braybrooke, Castle, Central St Leonards, Conquest, Gensing, Hollington, Maze Hill, Old Hastings, Ore, St Helens, Silverhill, Tressell, West St Leonards and Wishing Tree

The property is owned by the monarch as part of the Duchy of Lancaster holdings, but is administered by Harrogate Borough Council.

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The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames has one of the largest expatriate community of South Koreans in Europe, and is said to be one of the most densely populated area of Koreans outside South Korea.

According to different sources, the Korean population in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is around 20, 000, of whom around 8000 reside in the Kingston Borough portion of New Malden.

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The town is within the Borough of Havant and includes the Waterloo, Hart Plain, Cowplain, and Stakes wards.

This is due to the fact that Waterlooville, which is part of Havant Borough Council, is bordered by Winchester City Council and so has hindered any plans in the past.