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Aldenham

Aldenham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Hertsmere in Hertfordshire, England.

Aldenham
Aldenham · John Charles Varrall
The place

Aldenham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Hertsmere in Hertfordshire, England. The parish includes Radlett and Letchmore Heath as well as Aldenham village itself. The village of Aldenham lies 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-east of Watford and 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of Radlett. Aldenham was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and is one of Hertsmere's 14 conservation areas. The village has eight pre-19th-century listed buildings and the parish itself is largely unchanged, though buildings have been rebuilt, since Saxon times when the majority of the land was owned by the abbots of Westminster Abbey.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Aldenham

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Bhaktivedanta Manor

    Bhaktivedanta Manor is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu temple set in the Hertfordshire countryside of England, in the village of Letchmore Heath near Watford. The Manor is owned and run by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, better known as the Hare Krishna movement.

    1.5 km · Hindu temple, formerly a country house, in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Holy Rood Church

    Holy Rood Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Watford, Hertfordshire. It was built from 1889 to 1890.

    3.6 km · catholic church in Watford, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Museum of Watford

    Watford Museum is a local museum in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom. It is owned by Watford Borough Council.

    3.6 km · local museum in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Building Research Establishment

    The Building Research Establishment is a centre of building science in the United Kingdom, owned by charitable organisation the BRE Trust. It is a former UK government national laboratory, previously called Building Research Station, that was privatised in 1997.

    3.4 km · centre of building science in the United Kingdom, owned by charitable organisation the BRE Trust · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lululaund

    Lululaund was the Romanesque Revival-style house and studio of the Bavarian-born British artist Hubert von Herkomer, in Melbourne Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire. It was designed about 1886 and completed by 1894.

    3.2 km · house in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Watford is a Church of England church in Watford, Hertfordshire, in England. It is an active church situated in the town centre on Watford High Street, approximately 25 kilometres outside London.

    3.4 km · historic church in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Watford Palace Theatre

    Watford Palace Theatre, opened in 1908, is an Edwardian Grade II listed building in Watford, Hertfordshire. The 600-seat theatre on Clarendon Road was refurbished in 2004.

    3.4 km · theatre and cinema in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Munden House

    Munden House and its estate are located between Watford, Radlett and Bricket Wood in the county of Hertfordshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

    1.9 km · house in Aldenham, Hertsmere, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Harlequin Centre

    Harlequin Watford is a shopping centre in the middle of Watford, Hertfordshire, England. It opened in June 1992 as the Harlequin Shopping Centre.

    3.3 km · shopping mall in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St John's Church

    The Church of St John the Apostle and Evangelist is a Church of England parish church located in Sutton Road, close to the centre of the busy market town of Watford in Hertfordshire. It is within the Diocese of St Albans and has throughout its history been one of the leading Anglo-Catholic churches in the southeast of England.

    3.1 km · grade II listed church in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Aldenham

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 23 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 24 km · London Stansted (STN), 47 km
Stations
Watford Junction railway station, 3 km · Elstree Aerodrome, 2.7 km · Watford High Street railway station, 3.4 km · Bushey railway station, 3.8 km · Radlett railway station, 3 km
  • London → Aldenham
    24 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £3–4
  • London, Essex → Aldenham
    24 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £3–4
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Aldenham
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Aldenham

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aldenham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    128 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    304 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    403 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    536 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    572 km

If you know how people move in Aldenham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Aldenham

Aldenham is 14 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Watfordtown in Hertfordshire, England3.4 km
  • Busheytown in Hertfordshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Radletttown in Hertfordshire, England2.9 km
  • Letchmore Heathvillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK1.4 km
  • Garstonvillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Oxheysuburb in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK3.2 km