Places to explore near Garston (Herts) StationGarston

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

1.3 km N · Hertfordshire

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

2.5 km W

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

3.3 km SW · spans 9 counties

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

7.4 km W

Long Norman abbey church over Roman Verulamium.

7.5 km N

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

8.2 km NE · Hertfordshire

A country park in Hertfordshire.

5.7 km SE

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

6.4 km SE · spans 5 counties

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

6.6 km N

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

6.9 km N

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

7.3 km N

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

7.4 km W · Hertfordshire

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.

7.7 km N

A country park in London.

8 km SE