Photo of St Albans, a village in Hertfordshire, eastern England.

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Villages & towns in HertfordshireHertfordshire, England

16 villages and towns in the Albion Guide across Hertfordshire — see the full villages and towns directory, or everything to explore in Hertfordshire.

Photo of St Albans, a village in Hertfordshire, eastern England.

St Albans

Historic city grown from the Roman town of Verulamium, its cathedral and medieval streets rising above the Ver and Verulamium Park.

Hertfordshire

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

Aldbury

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

Hertfordshire

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

Much Hadham

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

Hertfordshire

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

Ashwell

North-Hertfordshire village of preserved timber-framed houses gathered under a tall medieval church spire, beside the chalk springs that feed the River Cam.

Hertfordshire

Photo of Ayot St Lawrence, a village in Hertfordshire, eastern England.

Ayot St Lawrence

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

Hertfordshire

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

Berkhamsted

Chiltern market town in the Bulbourne valley, strung along the Grand Union Canal below the ruined Norman motte of Berkhamsted Castle.

Hertfordshire

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

Sarratt

Chess-valley village strung along one of the longest greens in the county, with old cottages and a flint church down by the river.

Hertfordshire

Hertford

County town at the meeting of four rivers, with a medieval street pattern, castle grounds and McMullen's brewery in its heart.

Hertfordshire

Hitchin

Market town of medieval and Georgian streets around a broad square and St Mary's, the county's largest parish church, with lavender fields nearby.

Hertfordshire

Tring

Small market town on the Chiltern edge, home to the Rothschilds' Natural History Museum and framed by Tring Park and the reservoirs.

Hertfordshire

Ware

Old malting town on the River Lea, known for its riverside gazebos and the six-chambered Scott's Grotto.

Hertfordshire

Benington

Hilltop village around a green and duck pond, with a Norman castle mound and the celebrated Lordship gardens behind the church.

Hertfordshire

Braughing

Village split by a ford across the River Quin, with a bright pink pub, medieval listed houses and an annual wheelbarrow race.

Hertfordshire

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

Redbourn

Village strung along a characterful high street of period houses, with a broad common where cricket has been played for centuries.

Hertfordshire

Cottered

Quiet north-Hertfordshire village of colour-washed cottages, home to a noted Japanese garden at The Garden House.

Hertfordshire

Wheathampstead

Lea-valley village of old inns and cottages beside the river, with the vast Iron Age earthwork of Devil's Dyke on its edge.

Hertfordshire