Places to explore near Leagrave StationLeagrave

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

2.2 km SW

Two vast airship hangars built for the R101 that still dominate the flat land south-east of Bedford, among the largest structures in the country.

4.4 km S

A chalk hilltop of beech and ash woodland, crossed by the Icknield Way.

4.6 km N

Chalk escarpment with gliders and sweeping views.

7 km SW

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

7.7 km S · Hertfordshire

A ten-acre garden planted between the wars in the outline of a cathedral, with grass avenues for nave and transepts and 'walls' of trees, a memorial to the fallen.

7.9 km SW

A vast recumbent lion cut into Dunstable Downs in the early 1930s to mark the zoo below — big enough to see from the air.

9.1 km SW

Down the Lea from its source at Leagrave to the Thames at Limehouse — flat towpath walking through Hertford and the Olympic Park.

0 km NW · spans 4 counties

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

2.9 km NE · spans 7 counties

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

2.9 km NE · Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire

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

3.3 km NE · spans 5 counties

Capability Brown's unusual octagonal walled garden of the 1760s, restored by volunteers.

5.1 km SE

A country park in Bedfordshire.

6 km SW

Isolated downland church prized for its medieval wall paintings, the oldest a late thirteenth-century row thought to show the apostles.

6.2 km NW