Places to explore near Park Street StationPark Street

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

2.6 km N · Hertfordshire

Long Norman abbey church over Roman Verulamium.

2.7 km N

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

3.3 km N · Hertfordshire

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

6.5 km SW

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

7.2 km W · spans 9 counties

Common-side dining pub on the edge of Harpenden.

9.6 km N

Deep wooded Iron Age earthwork on the edge of Wheathampstead, thought to be part of a stronghold of the Catuvellauni tribe.

9.8 km N

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

1.9 km N

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

2.6 km NW

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

2.7 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.

4.8 km NW

A country park in Hertfordshire.

8.1 km S

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

8.4 km S · spans 5 counties

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

8.7 km NW · spans 5 counties

Medieval church above Old Hatfield beside Hatfield House, resting place of two prime ministers and the Cecils of Salisbury.

9.7 km NE