Dacorum
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| Dacorum | |
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 Shown within Hertfordshire |
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| 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 (2005 est.) - Density |
Ranked 128th 138,500 652 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 95.4% White 2.1% South Asian |
| Politics | |
 Dacorum |
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| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Control: | Conservative |
| MPs: | David Gauke Mike Penning |
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, under 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.
The five major components were the municipal borough of Hemel Hempstead, the urban districts of Berkhamsted and Tring, the rural districts of Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead. Also, those parts of the rural districts of St Albans and Watford which were within the designated area of Hemel Hempstead new town were included.
The district was granted borough status in 1984. Hemel Hempstead had maintained Charter Trustees from 1974 to 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).
[edit] 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
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