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':the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
The hundred of Dacorum was first recorded in 1196, although it has existed since the 9th and 10th centuries, when it lay near the southern boundary of Danelaw, on 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 [both too archaic to be described as members of the Hertfordshire hundreds] overlapped areas of the hundred of Dacorum.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Dacorum Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "DACORUM, a hundred in Herts; in detached pieces, contiguous to Middlesex and Bucks; and containing seventeen parishes and parts of four others. Acres: 75,027. Population in 1851: 36,249: in 1861: 38,081. Houses, 7,092."
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Parishes
Parish | Description | Duration and Notes
| Aldbury | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Aldenham | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Berkhamsted | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Bovingdon | chapelry, civil parish |
| Bushey | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Caddington | ancient parish, civil parish | portion in Hertfordshire until 1897, transferred to Bedfordshire
| Coleshill | hamlet, civil parish | detached parish, transferred to Buckinghamshire in 1844
| Flamstead | chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish |
| Flaunden | chapelry, civil parish |
| Great Gaddesden | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Harpenden | chapelry, civil parish |
| Hemel Hempstead | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Kensworth | ancient parish, civil parish | transferred to Bedfordshire in 1897
| Kings Langley | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Little Gaddesden | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Meppershall | ancient parish, civil parish | detached parish, transferred to Bedfordshire in 1844
| North Mimms | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Northchurch | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Puttenham | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Shenley | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Studham | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Tring | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Wheathampstead | ancient parish, civil parish |
| Whipsnade | ancient parish, civil parish | portion in Hertfordshire until 1897, transferred to Bedfordshire
| Wigginton | chapelry, civil parish |
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