Places to explore near Stevenage StationStevenage

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

1.6 km S

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

3 km NW · Hertfordshire

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

8.2 km NW

Secluded lane-end hamlet of George Bernard Shaw's home, a ruined old church and a Palladian eyecatcher church built as a folly.

8.2 km SW · Hertfordshire

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

9.5 km NW

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

3.5 km W · spans 5 counties

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

6.6 km N

Family-run inn with rooms in the old village of Welwyn, serving real ales and an extensive gin list.

8 km S

Period village pub with an open hearth at Watton-at-Stone, south of Stevenage in the Beane valley.

8.3 km SE

Hertfordshire's only surviving post mill, a white weatherboarded mill of about 1720 on a medieval mound near Ardeley, restored and open on summer afternoons.

8.3 km NE