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Benington

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Benington gathers around a hilltop green and duck pond, with the earthworks of a Norman castle behind the church. Those grounds are now part of Benington Lordship Gardens, known for its snowdrops, an old walled rose garden and long herbaceous borders, open on set days through the year. Watton-at-Stone station is about 3.5km south.

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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.

4.9 km SE · Hertfordshire

Photo of Knebworth House and Gardens, a country park near Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Knebworth House and Gardens

Country park near Ayot St Lawrence

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

6.2 km W

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.

9.7 km S · spans 4 counties

Photo along the Icknield Way Path, a 110-mile long-distance path running from Ivinghoe Beacon to Knettishall Heath, England.

Icknield Way Path

Long-distance path

The missing middle of the 'oldest road in Britain', linking the Ridgeway at Ivinghoe Beacon to the Peddars Way at Knettishall Heath.

9.7 km N · spans 7 counties

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.

10.5 km S

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.

10.7 km SE