Places to explore near Apsley StationApsley

London to Birmingham by water — the trunk route of the canal age, with arms reaching Leicester, Aylesbury, Northampton and Paddington.

0.2 km NE · spans 9 counties

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

2.7 km S · Hertfordshire

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

4.9 km NW

The Making of Harry Potter at Leavesden, a walk through the original film sets, props and Diagon Alley near Watford.

5.6 km SE

Long Norman abbey church over Roman Verulamium.

8.4 km E

Historic city grown from the Roman town of Verulamium, its cathedral and medieval streets rising above the Ver and Verulamium Park.

9.1 km E · Hertfordshire

A small Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire.

1.6 km NW

The Chiltern Society's grand loop through four counties of beechwood and chalk, grown from a Millennium project into 177 miles.

2.2 km NW · spans 5 counties

Ruined porch, chapel and clock tower of Sir Nicholas Bacon's Elizabethan mansion near St Albans, built in the 1560s and later home to Francis Bacon.

5.6 km NE

Ivy-clad 18th-century dining pub in a Chiltern lane at Flaunden, a favourite walkers' stop with a log fire and terrace.

5.7 km SW

Chess-valley village strung along one of the longest greens in the county, with old cottages and a flint church down by the river.

6 km S · Hertfordshire

Well-known gastropub set in a wooded hamlet at Frithsden below Ashridge, cooking with local and foraged produce.

6.7 km NW

Chiltern market town in the Bulbourne valley, strung along the Grand Union Canal below the ruined Norman motte of Berkhamsted Castle.

7.3 km NW · Hertfordshire

Flint-and-brick walls of Roman Verulamium, up to four metres high in places, in a park in St Albans.

7.5 km E