Aldenham

Aldenham
Church of St John the Baptist, Aldenham
The village green
Aldenham Location within Hertfordshire
Area	8.475 sq mi (21.95 km2)
Population	9,942 (2001 census) 9,815 (2011 Census)[1] [needs update]
• Density	1,173/sq mi (453/km2)
OS grid reference	TQ138981
Civil parish	Aldenham
District	Hertsmere
Shire county	Hertfordshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WATFORD
Postcode district	WD25
Dialling code	01923
Police	Hertfordshire
Fire	Hertfordshire
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Hertsmere
List of places UK England Hertfordshire 51°40′20″N 0°21′17″W / 51.6723°N 0.3546°W / 51.6723; -0.3546

Aldenham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Hertsmere in Hertfordshire, England. The parish includes Radlett and Letchmore Heath as well as Aldenham village itself. The village of Aldenham lies 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-east of Watford and 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of Radlett. Aldenham was mentioned in the Domesday Book and is one of Hertsmere's 14 conservation areas. The village has eight pre-19th-century listed buildings^[2] and the parish itself is largely unchanged, though buildings have been rebuilt, since Saxon times when the majority of the land was owned by the abbots of Westminster Abbey.

In the Index of Multiple Deprivation, the ward of Aldenham East was ranked the least deprived ward out of 8414 in England, while Aldenham West also featured among the least deprived three per cent in the country.