Six Hills Brewing

A Gothic Victorian house reworked by the novelist Bulwer-Lytton, with Lutyens gardens.

1.3 km S

Hertfordshire's grand circuit from the Royce Stone at Royston — chalk streams, commons and country houses for nearly 200 miles.

3.5 km NW · Hertfordshire

Secluded lane-end hamlet of George Bernard Shaw's home, a ruined old church and a Palladian eyecatcher church built as a folly.

8.1 km SW · Hertfordshire

Beech woods and chalk downland within easy reach of London, laced with old ridge paths and grazing red kites

8.5 km NW

Rows of lavender and sunflowers you can walk and cut on a chalk hillside at Ickleford, above Hitchin, at their best in high summer.

9.8 km NW

Down the Lea from its source at Leagrave to the Thames at Limehouse — flat towpath walking through Hertford and the Olympic Park.

10.5 km SW · spans 4 counties