Places to explore near Bricket Wood StationBricket Wood

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

1.2 km SW · Hertfordshire

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

4.3 km W

Long Norman abbey church over Roman Verulamium.

5.1 km N

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

5.4 km W · spans 9 counties

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

5.7 km N · Hertfordshire

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

9.7 km SW

Saxon-founded church over a thousand years old on the southern edge of St Albans, set in an acre of tree-filled churchyard.

4.1 km N

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

4.6 km N

Octagonal former dovecote beside Verulamium Park in St Albans, long cited among England's oldest pubs.

4.9 km N

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.

6 km N

A country park in Hertfordshire.

6.4 km SE

The 'M25 for walkers' — an orbital path through outer London's woods, commons and river valleys from Erith to Purfleet.

7.2 km SE · spans 5 counties

A country park in London.

9 km SE

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

9.3 km W · Hertfordshire