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Downfield Pit, Westmill

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Downfield Pit, Westmill is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire. It is one of 41 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the county. It is the smallest of them.

Ware Station is about 2.7 km away to the south. Hertford Heath and Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Woods North are among the SSSIs within 7.5 km.

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Photo along the Hertfordshire Way, a 195-mile long-distance path in eastern England.Highlight

Hertfordshire Way

Long-distance path

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

1.2 km NE · Hertfordshire

Photo along the Lea Valley Walk, a 50-mile long-distance path running from Luton to Limehouse Basin, England.

Lea Valley Walk

Long-distance path

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

2.3 km S · spans 4 counties

Photo of Scott's Grotto, a folly near Ware, Hertfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Scott's Grotto

Folly near Ware

The largest shell grotto in the country, six flint-and-shell chambers dug into a Ware hillside by the poet John Scott in the 1760s.

2.8 km S

Photo of Panshanger, a Grade II* registered house & garden in Hertfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Panshanger

House & garden near Hertford

A Humphry Repton landscape of lakes and meadows, home to an ancient Great Oak.

7 km SW

Photo of Much Hadham, a village in Hertfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Much Hadham

Village

Long east-Hertfordshire street of timber-framed and Georgian houses, once home to the Bishops of London's country palace.

8.3 km E · Hertfordshire

Photo of Henry Moore Studios and Gardens, a garden near Perry Green, Hertfordshire, eastern England.

Henry Moore Studios and Gardens

Garden near Perry Green

Seventy acres of sculpture-strewn parkland and garden at Perry Green, the estate where Henry Moore lived and worked.

8.6 km E