Places to explore near How Wood (Herts) StationHow Wood

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

2.9 km SW · Hertfordshire

Long Norman abbey church over Roman Verulamium.

3.6 km N

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

4.2 km N · Hertfordshire

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

5.8 km SW

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

6.7 km W · spans 9 counties

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

2.7 km N

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

3.3 km N

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

3.5 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.

5.3 km NW

A country park in Hertfordshire.

7.3 km S

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

7.8 km SE · spans 5 counties

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

9.3 km NW · spans 5 counties

A small Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire.

9.9 km W