USEFUL INFORMATION
Latest Update Monday, 23 April 2007
First published in 1999 on the Town council web site for geographical addresses only. Now independently updated to run parallel with the internet database (see table above).
Additionally, the Dacorum web site provides further information at Berkhamsted Town Centre.

BANKS December 2003

BERKHAMSTED TOWN COUNCIL
December 2003

CITIZENS' ADVICE BUREAU
December 2003

CHEMISTS March 2004

CHURCHES & CHAPELS December 2003

Dacorum Volunteer Bureau (DVB) April 2004

Dacorum Council for Voluntary Service
(DCVS) April 2004

DENTISTS March 2004

DOCTORS March 2004

EARLY CLOSING March 2004

EDUCATION April 2004

ELECTRICITY (emergencies) April 2004

FIRE SERVICE April 2004

GAS (emergencies) April 2004

HEALTH & SOCIAL SECURITY April 2004

HEALTH CENTRES April 2004

HOSPITALS April 2004

JOB CENTRE April 2004

LOCAL GOVERNMENT April 2004

MARKET DAY April 2004

MARKET PITCHES April 2004

MEDICAL / NURSING CARE

MEDICAL / ACCOMMODATION
FOR ELDERLY & DISABLED April 2004

NEWSPAPERS April 2004

OPTICIANS April 2004

PHARMACISTS April 2004

PLACES OF WORSHIP December 2003

POLICE STATION April 2004

POST OFFICES April 2004

REGISTRAR OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS April 2004

SOCIAL SERVICES April 2004

SPORTS CENTRE (Berkhamsted) see
Sports across Dacorum April 2004

TAXIS April 2004

TOWN WARDEN April 2004

VETERINARY SURGEONS April 2004

VOLUNTARY SERVICES April 2004

Town Warden, Jim Watts: 01442 228943
                                                 Mobile: 07762 916559

Please Note - for information on Clubs and Societies, the County Library in Kings Road has a full database of organisations and contacts, regularly updated.

Telephone – 01438 737333

The information contained within this database has been obtained from a variety of public sources but no responsibility can be accepted by the compiler, or any organisation associated with this web site, for any errors that may be contained within. The compiler is happy to amend or delete, if requested by any appropriately authorised person, any inappropriate entries. 

AREA OF TOWN: 3,040 acres. POPULATION: 15,493 at 1991 census

BANKS:

CHURCHES & CHAPELS/Places of Worship:
See 'Religion'

Anglican/Methodist, All Saints' Church, Cross Oak Road, Berkhamsted.

Baptist, High Street Berkhamsted.

Christian Scientist, Cowper Road, Berkhamsted.

Church of England St. Peter's Parish Church, High Street, Berkhamsted.

Church of England St. Michael's & All Angels (Sunnyside). Ivy House Lane. Berkhamsted

Catholic Sacred Heart Roman Catholic, Park Street, Berkhamsted

Evangelical, Kings Road, Berkhamsted.

Society of Friends, 289 High Street, Berkhamsted.

CHEMISTS/PHARMACIES:
See 'Health'

 OPTICIANS:
See 'Health'

MEDICAL / NURSING CARE:
General Directory

Abeegale House, 13 Shrublands Road, HP4 3HY Telephone: 01442 863536

Ashlyns Residential Home, Chesham Road, HP4 2ST Telephone: 01442 870565

Dunsland House, 5 Shrublands Road, HP4 3HY Telephone: 01442 866703

Hospice of St. Francis, 27, Shrublands Road: Telephone 01442 862960

Gossoms End Elderly Care Unit, Victory Road: Telephone: 01442 876693

Kilfillan House Nursing Home,Graemesdyke Road, HP4 3LZ Telephone: 01442 877115

ACCOMMODATION FOR ELDERLY & DISABLED:
See 'Health'

Shaftesbury Society Housing Association

The Abbeyfield (Berkhamsted & District) Society Limited,

EARLY CLOSING:
Wednesday

CITIZENS' ADVICE BUREAU:
The civic Centre 161High Street, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire HP4 3HD
Telephone: 01442 866930  

DENTISTS:
See also 'Health'

DOCTORS
See also 'Health'

Boxwell Road Surgery (Berkhamsted)
1 Boxwell Road, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, HP4 3EU
Telephone: 01442 863119

Doctors: Dr T L Finn; Dr A J Lever; Dr A J Pride; Dr T B C Strowger

Manor Street Surgery (Berkhamsted)
Manor Street, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire HP4 2DL
Telephone: 01442 875935

Doctors: Dr W J F Bado; Dr L A Hallan; Dr H E Manton; Dr C E Ponsonby; Dr R I Walker. 

Milton House Surgery (Berkhamsted)
Doctors Commons Road, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire HP4 3BY
Telephone: 01442 874784

Doctors: Dr E I Aitchison; Dr J R Bunker; Dr J Cohen; Dr S C Evans; Dr I N R Ormiston; Dr J P Roythorne;

EDUCATION:
See also 'Education'
Schools provided or aided by Hertfordshire County Council are as follows:

Primary Schools (Age 5 - 9 years):

Greenway School, (St. Thomas More's RC School) Crossways, Berkhamsted:
Telephone: 01442 866249.

Swing Gate School, Swing Gate Lane, Berkhamsted, HP4 2LJ:
Telephone: 01442 873913

Victoria C. of E. School, Prince Edward Street, Berkhamsted
Telephone: 01442 865781

Westfield School, Durrant's Lane, Berkhamsted: Telephone: 01442 862729  

Middle Schools (Age 9 - 13 years):
Thomas Coram C. of E. School, Swing Gate Lane, Berkhamsted:
Telephone: 01442 866757

Bridgewater School, Bridle Way, Berkhamsted: Telephone: 01442 871231  

Upper School (Age 13 plus):
Ashlyns School, Chesham Road, Berkhamsted: Telephone: 01442 863605

Evening classes are provided at the and Higher education at West Herts. College Dacorum Campus, Hemel Hempstead.  

Divisional Education Officer (Dacorum Division):
Civic Centre, Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead: Telephone: 01442 60161

EDUCATION (PRIVATE SECTOR):
Fee-Paying Public Schools:
Berkhamsted Collegiate School:  
Boys and Girls aged 3 – 5 years Telephone: 01442 864866
Boys aged 5 – 10 years Telephone 01442865388
Girls aged 5 – 10 years Telephone 01442 864866
Boys aged 10 – 16 years Telephone 01442863236
Girls aged 10 – 16 years Telephone 01442862168
Sixth Form Centre Telephone 01442866960  

Fee-Paying Senior Schools:
Egerton Rothesay School (Upper School)
Durrants Lane, Berkhamsted: Telephone: 01442 865275  

Preparatory Schools:
Egerton Rothesay School (Lower School) 3-7, Charles Street, Berkhamsted:
Telephone: 01442 866305

Haresfoot School (2 to 11) at Haresfoot, Chesham Road, Berkhamsted Telephone: 01442 877215

Marlin Montessori, Brownlow Roooms, Berkhamsted: Telephone: 01442 866290  

FIRE SERVICE:
DIAL 999 IN ANY EMERGENCY
General Emergency Information/Advice

Berkhamsted Fire Station, Castle Street, Berkhamsted HP4 2DW
(only occasionally manned)
Telephones:
01442 426800 (Fire Station)
01438 737399 (Fire Safety and Advice)
01992 507601 (Fire Service Recruitment Hotline)

Hemel Hempstead Fire Station

County Fire and Control Centre
Hertfordshire County Divisional Fire Headquarters
Queensway, Hemel Hempstead: Telephone:01442 263343  

GAS:
Emergencies 24hrs (Transco) Tel: 0800 111999

HEALTH & SOCIAL SECURITY:
1, Waterhouse Street, Hemel Hempstead: Telephone: 01442 213291    

HEALTH CENTRES:
Victory Road, Gossoms End, Berkhamsted HP4 1DL: Telephone: 01442 876693

Community Mental Health Centre, 27-28, Raven's Lane, Berkhamsted: Telephone: 01442 872395

HOSPITALS:
The nearest is Hemel Hempstead General Hospital, Hillfield Road, Hemel Hempstead:
Telephone: 01442 213141

JOB CENTRE:
20, Bridge Street, Hemel Hempstead: Telephone: 01442 212066

A job hot line with limited advertising can be found in the foyer of the Civic Centre, High Street, Berkhamsted.

LIBRARY:
Kings Road, Berkhamsted: Telephone: 01438 737333

ELECTRICITY:
Emergency call out (24 hrs): 24seven 0800 7838 838

LOCAL GOVERNMENT:
Berkhamsted Town Council, 161 High street Civic Centre, Berkhamsted: Telephone: 01442 228945

Dacorum Borough Council. Civic Centre, Hemel Hempstead:
Telephone: 01442 228000

Hertfordshire Country Council, County Hall, Pegs Lane, Hertford SG13 8DE
General Enquiries 01438 737 555

MARKET DAY:
There are many 'market days' in Berkhamsted, all of them managed through various trusts supporting the maintenance of the Town Hall. .One of the pages on their site provides an outline history of our almost 1,000 year-old market.

Saturday, is the weekly market. It is a general market, offering various agricultural produce and a varying range of other goods.

Returning on May 7th (if the weather is fine) is the Friday market of half-a-dozen stalls selling bric-á-brac and small antiques. This market depends on fine weather. Separately, there is often a flower stall on Fridays.

Visiting again on Sunday 13th June 2004 is the French Market. This proved exceedingly successful on its last visit to the extent that the stalls overflowed as far The Bookstack.

On the third Sunday of the month there is a Farmers' Market with a whole range of produce with particular organic emphasis.

Our Community pages often remind people of these intermittent markets as well as providing people with other information about the various community events in the town.

MARKET PITCHES:
Applications for a market pitch should be made to Berkhamsted Town Hall Trust Tel: 01442 862288 (Janet Few, Manager) 

NEWSPAPERS:
The Gazette (Wednesday afternoon) See web site for latest headlines:
Hemel Hempstead Today

Herald and Express (free) (Thursday) sister paper and same stable as The Gazette.

News Desk: 01442 262311  Editorials Fax: 01442 261887
editorial@hemelgazette.co.uk

Advertising: 01442 213211  Fax: 01442 241284
advertising@hemelgazette.co.uk

Circulation: 01442 318311

Office: 39, Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP1 1LH

POLICE STATION:
Web Site.

187 High Street, Berkhamsted Hertfordshire HP4 3HB (on the corner by the traffic lights):
Telephone: 01442 871971 (emergency 999).

Hertfordshire Constabulary: Dacorum 01442 271000

Headquarters: Stanborough Road, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire AL8 6XF
Telephone: 01707 354000

POST OFFICES:
Royal Mail Central services web site.

Sorting Office only (not for sale of stamps etc):
pedestrian entrance: High Street, Berkhamsted
vehicle entrance: St John's Well Lane
Telephone: 01442 863215

Post Office Counters (stamps, large parcel posting box): 'Way Inn' High Street, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, (opposite the Sayer's Almshouses). Also at http://www.christianbookshops.org.uk/shopname_w.htm

REGISTRAR OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS:
The Bury, Hemel Hempstead. Telephone: Births and Deaths 228600; Marriages 228533 

SOCIAL SERVICES:
Manor Street, Berkhamsted: Telephone: 01442 876381

SPORTS CENTRE:
Lagley Meadow, Douglas Gardens, Berkhamsted: Telephone: 01442 877833

TAXIS:

TOWN WARDEN

Jim Watts  01442 228943 mobile 07762 916559

TRAINS:
See Internet database for full transport and travel links.

Silverlink Services for Watford, Milton Keynes, London and Birmingham
Station, Lower Kings Road, Berkhamsted.

Enquiries: Telephone: 01923 245001

VETERINARY SURGEONS:
St. John’s, St John's Well Lane 320a, High Street, Berkhamsted:
Telephone: 01442 863101

Clark & Marshall
2, High Street, Berkhamsted HP4 2BS: Telephone: 01442 862776

VOLUNTARY SERVICES:
Dacorum Council for Voluntary Services

The Civic Centre Telephone: 01442 228930 

WATER:
Three Valleys Water Limited,
P.O. Box 48, Bishops Rise, Hatfield. Telephone: 0845 7823333