Places to explore near St Albans Abbey StationSt Albans

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

0.5 km NW · Hertfordshire

Long Norman abbey church over Roman Verulamium.

0.6 km N

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

1.2 km N · Hertfordshire

Common-side dining pub on the edge of Harpenden.

7.5 km N

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

7.7 km W · spans 9 counties

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

7.9 km NE

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

7.9 km SW

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

8.8 km NW

Jacobean palace of the Cecils and Elizabeth I.

9.8 km E

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

0.5 km SW

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

0.6 km NW

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

1 km W

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.

3.5 km W

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

6.8 km NW · spans 5 counties

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

7.9 km N · spans 4 counties

Grade II-listed country pub near Harpenden, settled into the Hertfordshire countryside since 1765.

9.2 km N

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

9.2 km E