East of England
Hertfordshire
Dacorum District

Berkhamsted

Berkhamsted is an historic market town of 18,500 people in in , UK. It is about 30 miles north of .
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  • Type: Town with 22,000 residents
  • Description: civil parish and town in Dacorum, Hertfordshire in England
  • Also known as: “Berkhampstead Urban”, “Berkhamsted Urban”, “Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire”, “Berko”, “Great Berkhampstead”, and “Great Berkhampstead Urban”
  • Historically known as: “Berkhampstead” and “Berkhamstead”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Berkhamsted Castle and Berkhamsted railway station.

Castle
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is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle in Berkhamsted, . The castle was built to obtain control of a key route between London and the Midlands during the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century.

Railway station
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is in the historic market town of Berkhamsted, , England. It is located just beside , overlooking the Grand Junction Canal.

Movie theater
Photo: Lucy Downey, CC BY 2.0.
is a cinema in the town of Berkhamsted, , England. Designed in the art deco style by David Evelyn Nye in 1936, the cinema opened to the public in 1938.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Potten End and Little Heath.

Village
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is a village in west , England. It is located in the , two miles east-north-east of Berkhamsted, three miles north west of and two miles south east of the National Trust estate of Ashridge.

Hamlet
is a partly wooded area with scattered housing, just south of the village of , , England. It represents the top of the plateau and has distinctive geological beds that remain while they have been eroded elsewhere.

Hamlet
is a hamlet in South West , , between the towns of and Berkhamsted. It is 2 miles north-west of Berkhamsted, just off the A4251.

Berkhamsted

Latitude
51.7607° or 51° 45′ 39″ north
Longitude
-0.5653° or 0° 33′ 55″ west
Population
22,000
Elevation
371 feet (113 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BKH
Open location code
9C3XQC6M+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 257721005
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2655858
Wiki­data ID
Q19784
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Berkhamsted” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Բերքհամստեդ”
  • Basque: “Berkhamsted”
  • Belarusian: “Беркхамстэд”
  • Belarusian: “Бэркгамстэд”
  • Bengali: “বার্কহামস্টেড”
  • Bulgarian: “Бъркхамстед”
  • Catalan: “Berkhamsted”
  • Cebuano: “Berkhamsted”
  • Chinese: “伯克姆斯特德”
  • Chinese: “伯克翰斯德”
  • Chinese: “赫特福德郡”
  • Czech: “Berkhamsted”
  • Dutch: “Berkhamsted”
  • Esperanto: “Berkhamsted”
  • Finnish: “Berkhamsted”
  • French: “Berkhamsted”
  • German: “Berkhamsted”
  • Greek: “Μπέρχαμστεντ”
  • Gujarati: “બર્કહેમસ્તેડ”
  • Hebrew: “ברקהמסטד”
  • Irish: “Berkhamsted”
  • Italian: “Berkhamsted”
  • Japanese: “バーカムステッド”
  • Japanese: “バークハムステッド”
  • Kannada: “ಬರ್ಕಮ್ಸ್ಟೆಡ್”
  • Korean: “버캠스테드”
  • Ladin: “Berkhamsted”
  • Lithuanian: “Berkhemstedas”
  • Macedonian: “Беркамстед”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Berkhamsted”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Berkhamsted”
  • Norwegian: “Berkhamsted”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Berkhamsted”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Beorhðanstædæ”
  • Persian: “برکمستد”
  • Persian: “برکهمستد”
  • Polish: “Berkhamsted”
  • Portuguese: “Berkhamsted”
  • Romanian: “Berkhamsted”
  • Russian: “Беркемстед”
  • Russian: “Беркхамстед”
  • Slovak: “Berkhamsted”
  • Slovenian: “Berkhamsted”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برکمستد”
  • Spanish: “Berkhamsted”
  • Swedish: “Berkhamsted”
  • Tamil: “பேரகம்ஸ்டேட்”
  • Telugu: “బెర్క్హంస్తేడ్”
  • Turkish: “Berkhamsted”
  • Ukrainian: “Беркемстед”
  • Ukrainian: “Беркхемстед”
  • Urdu: “برخمسٹڈ”
  • Urdu: “بیرخامسٹڈ”
  • Volapük: “Berkhamsted”
  • Welsh: “Berkhamsted”
  • “Berkhamsted”

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