Little Gaddesden (pronounced /lɪtl ɡædzdən/) is a village and civil parish in the borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Berkhamsted, close to the border with Bedfordshire.

Little Gaddesden and the surrounding area of the Ashridge Estate is owned and managed by the National Trust.

TV programmes filmed here include the Netflix biographical drama The Crown, Marchlands, Midsomer Murders,[6] Lewis, Cranford,[9] and a Jamie Oliver advertisement for Sainsbury's.

It is covered by a plaster ribbed vaulted ceiling with floral bosses designed by Francis Bernasconi in 1817, and contains a number of sculptured monuments to members of the Bridgewater family.

Among these is a monument to the 7th Earl, John William Egerton and his wife Charlotte Catherine Anne, Countess of Bridgewater, designed by the sculptor Sir Richard Westmacott; a monument to Francis Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (d.1829).

The Ashridge Estate that surrounds the village is a 5,000-acre (20 km2)[16] area of open countryside and woodland on the edge of the Chiltern Hills, with a rich variety of wildlife including fallow deer and muntjac.

[17] There are large areas of mature woodlands with carpets of spring bluebells and fine autumnal displays, along with the panorama from the Bridgewater Monument.