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Photo of Hitchin Lavender, a visitor attraction in Hertfordshire, eastern England.

Hitchin Lavender© DeFacto / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Places to explore near Hitchin StationHitchin

28 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group.

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Photo along the Hertfordshire Way, a 195-mile long-distance path in eastern England.Highlight

Hertfordshire Way

Long-distance path

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

2.2 km E · Hertfordshire

Photo of Hitchin Lavender, a visitor attraction in Hertfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Hitchin Lavender

Attraction near Hitchin

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

2.7 km N

Photo of the Chilterns, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Chilterns

National Landscape near The Lee

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

3.2 km W

Photo of Knebworth House and Gardens, a country park near Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Knebworth House and Gardens

Country park near Ayot St Lawrence

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

8.3 km SE

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Hitchin

Village

Market town of medieval and Georgian streets around a broad square and St Mary's, the county's largest parish church, with lavender fields nearby.

1.5 km SW · Hertfordshire

Photo along the Icknield Way Path, a 110-mile long-distance path running from Ivinghoe Beacon to Knettishall Heath, England.

Icknield Way Path

Long-distance path

The missing middle of the 'oldest road in Britain', linking the Ridgeway at Ivinghoe Beacon to the Peddars Way at Knettishall Heath.

2.1 km N · spans 7 counties

Photo of All Saints' Church, Willian, a church in Hertfordshire, eastern England.

All Saints' Church, Willian

Church near Willian

Nearly nine-hundred-year-old flint church beside the green at Willian, near Letchworth Garden City.

3.2 km E

Photo along the Chiltern Way, a 177-mile long-distance path in England.

Chiltern Way

Long-distance path

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

3.4 km SW · spans 5 counties

Six Hills Brewing

Brewery near Stevenage

Stevenage's first craft brewery and taproom, pouring its own and guest beers.

7.3 km SE

Stotfold Watermill

Watermill near Stotfold

A restored working watermill and greenspace on the River Ivel at Stotfold, milling flour again after fire and rebuild.

7.5 km NE

Photo along the John Bunyan Trail, an 81-mile long-distance path in eastern England.

John Bunyan Trail

Long-distance path

Around Bedfordshire in John Bunyan's footsteps — Elstow, Bedford and the chalk rises he recast as the Delectable Mountains.

7.6 km W · Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire

Everything else within 10 km (17) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.