A English poet William Cowper was born around Berkhamsted around 1731 .

A town is besides page to the Berkhamsted Collegiate School, founded in 1541 and attended by the celebrated creator Graham Greene. A town okay, thrives as a moneyed cash settlement for victims working within London & a South East.

These are likewise a page of the British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive, the big film archive of its variety in the globe.

Berkhamsted was likewise a terminating point of the Norman invasion of 1066. A invasive army encircled London from the in the south east, so across to the west & n through Wallingford, and eventually stopping at Berkhamsted, at which point a conquest was profits complete. Edgar Atheling submitted to William the Conqueror here & William was offered a crown of England, however declined saying he would like receive a keys to London around Berkhamsted and would use a crown inside London. This is the likely source of the local legend that Berkhamsted is the very capital of England.

A town is also referred to when a Port of Berkhamsted as it stands on the Grand Union Canal (built by the Duke of Bridgewater who lived in nearby Ashridge House) and a River Bulbourne (which is not navigable). A local council keep close at hand restored a "port" sign a towage path & the town occurs as popular prevent for bicyclist & boaters like by having several canal side gin mill.

Recently (2001), upon renovation of a chemists shop 173 Berkhamsted High Street, it was found that a property was lot older than believed. A Victorian facade hid a mediaeval building. A building has been dated via dendrochronology of structural timbers to between 1277 and 1297. This is the oldest known shop in the United Kingdom. These are believed that one of a older or original utilizes for the shop can keep around been as a jeweller or goldsmith.