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Photo of Berkhamsted, a village in Hertfordshire, eastern England.

© Philip Jeffrey / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Berkhamsted

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Berkhamsted is a Chiltern market town in the Bulbourne valley, strung along the Grand Union Canal below the ruined motte-and-bailey of Berkhamsted Castle, where the English submitted to William the Conqueror in 1066. The novelist Graham Greene was born in the town in 1904. The station is right in the centre, and The Lamb is a long-standing town pub.

More places to visit near Berkhamsted

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.

0.1 km E · 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.

0.2 km NE · Hertfordshire

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

Chilterns

National Landscape near The Lee

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

0.4 km N

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.

5.8 km N

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.

5.9 km NW

Photo of Natural History Museum at Tring, a visitor attraction in Hertfordshire, eastern England.Highlight

Natural History Museum at Tring

Attraction near Tring

Walter Rothschild's own zoological museum in Tring, its Victorian galleries crammed with mounted animals from around the world.

7.8 km NW