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Little Heath Pit

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Little Heath Pit is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire, covering 0.01 km². It is one of 41 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the county. It is one of the smaller SSSIs in the county. It lies within the Chilterns National Landscape.

Ashridge Commons and Woods and Roughdown Common are among the SSSIs within 3.9 km. For arrivals by rail, Berkhamsted Station is about 2.4 km to the west.

More places to visit near Little Heath Pit

Photo of the Chilterns, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Chilterns

You’re inside itNational Landscape near The Lee

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

Photo of the Grand Union Canal, a 137-mile canal running from Brentford to Birmingham, England.Highlight

Grand Union Canal

Canal

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

1.4 km S · spans 9 counties

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.

1.4 km S · Hertfordshire

Photo of Aldbury, a village in the Chilterns, Hertfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Aldbury

Village

Chiltern-edge village with a duck pond, old stocks and whipping post on the green, timbered cottages climbing towards Ashridge woods.

6.4 km NW · Hertfordshire

Photo of Ashridge Estate, a country estate near Aldbury in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, south east England.Highlight

Ashridge Estate

Country estate near Aldbury

Beech woods and chalk downs on the Chilterns edge.

6.5 km NW

Photo of Bridgewater Monument, a folly near Aldbury in the Chilterns, Hertfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Bridgewater Monument

Folly near Aldbury

Granite column of 1832 rising above the Ashridge beeches near Aldbury, climbable in summer for a thirty-mile view across the Chilterns.

6.8 km NW