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Souvenir of Berkhamsted - posted August 1910
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Early spelling variable - often spelt
Berkhampstead. Also called Great Berkhampstead to
distinguish it from Little Berkhampstead
The town of Berkhamsted includes the parish
of St Peter's, Berkhamsted, St Mary's, Northchurch and the modern parish of
Sunnyside.
In 1973 Berkhamsted became part of the new
borough of Dacorum, which is named after an ancient Saxon
hundred
of the same name.
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Barkhamstead is a good Market Towne, and it had once a castle there of strength; the Ruines of it are there yet to be seene;
it hath
been the habitation for Kings and Princes, for the most noble Prince Richard Brother to the King of England, dyed there;
which Richard was King of the Romanes, and Erle of Cornewall. This Castle ruined is also famous for the residence there of that most illustrious Royall Spark, Edward the Black Prince;
and lastly it is memorable for being the birth place of King Richard the third. Barkhamstead hath two taverns allowed or kept by Stephen Besowth and Francis Baker.
John Taylor,
The Taverns of
Hertfordshire, 1636
The Town Hall, circa 1900, from Berkhamsted:
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