Hemel Hempstead Dacorum Information Centre

The town of Hemel Hempstead has much to offer its many visitors and is a great family friendly place to shop. The town centre has all the major high street stores you\'d expect of a busy modern town as well as a Debenhams department store.The Marlowes, in the town centre, constitutes Hemel Hempstead\'s main shopping area. There are stores located along both sides of the street, much of which is pedestrianised, as well as inside the Marlowes Shopping Centre.At the end of the Marlowes, just past Marks and Spencer, you can walk straight through into Riverside, the new shopping development with Debenhams and many other new stores. Road access can be gained via the Plough Roundabout to the Riverside 350 space car park.Dacorum was first noted in 1196 although its existence dates from the 9th and 10th century when it lay on the margins of the southern boundary of Danelaw and the River Lea. Its name in Latin means of the Danes. In the 11th century, the Domesday Book records that the hundreds of Tring and Danais overlapped areas of the hundred of Dacorum.In 1974, the modern district of Dacorum was formed under the Local Government Act 1972. Major components were the municipal borough of