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Ayot Green

Ayot Green is a hamlet in Hertfordshire, England and is near the A1(M) Motorway, close to Welwyn Garden City.

Ayot Green
Ayot Green · anon 1911
The place

Ayot Green is a hamlet in Hertfordshire, England and is near the A1(M) Motorway, close to Welwyn Garden City. It is a typical traditional English village, centred on a village green. There are several other Ayots in the area, including Ayot St Lawrence and Ayot St Peter, and it also gives name to the rail trail called Ayot Greenway which stretches from Ayot Green to Wheathampstead.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ayot Green

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
    Welwyn Garden City

    Welwyn Garden City is a town in the Welwyn Hatfield district, in Hertfordshire, England, 20 miles north of London. It was the second garden city in England and one of the first new towns.

    3 km · garden city and new town in Hertfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brocket Hall

    Brocket Hall is a neo-classical country house set in a large park at the western side of the urban area of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England. The estate includes two golf courses and seven smaller listed buildings, apart from the main house.

    1.3 km · country house in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Shaw's Corner

    Shaw's Corner was the primary residence of the renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw; it is now a National Trust property open to the public as a writer's house museum. Inside the house, the rooms remain much as Shaw left them, and the garden and Shaw's writing hut can also be visited.

    3.2 km · writer's house museum in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Digswell Viaduct

    The Digswell Viaduct, also known as the Welwyn Viaduct and officially the Welwyn Railway Viaduct, is a railway viaduct that carries two tracks of the East Coast Main Line over the Mimram Valley in Hertfordshire in the East of England. A prominent local landmark, it is located between Welwyn Garden City and Welwyn North railway stations, and is located above the village of Digswell and the River Mimram.

    2.8 km · railway viaduct in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Monkswood

    Monkswood is a small residential area in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. The area contains around 300 houses and flats and the population is about 500.

    2.2 km · neighbourhood in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    New Saint Lawrence Church

    St Lawrence Church is an eighteenth-century, neoclassical church in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England. It is also known as New St Lawrence Church to distinguish it from the ruined Old St Lawrence Church.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Old St Lawrence Church, Ayot St Lawrence

    Old St Lawrence Church is a ruined building in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England. It is protected as a Grade II* listed building, and dates back to the 12th century.

    3.4 km · church in Ayot St Lawrence, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Digswell House

    Digswell House is a Grade II listed Mansion in Hertfordshire, erected c. 1805–07 by Samuel Wyatt for the Honourable Edward Spencer Cowper, who lived there for some years.

    2.1 km · house in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Sherrardspark Wood

    Sherrardspark Wood is a 74.9 hectares biological site of Special Scientific Interest in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. The site was notified in 1986 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

    1.3 km · biological site of special scientific Interest in Hertfordshire, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    The Frythe

    The Frythe is a country house set in its own grounds in rural Hertfordshire, just south of the village of Welwyn, about 30 miles north of London.

    1.1 km · country house near Welwyn, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ayot Green

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 11 km · London Stansted (STN), 33 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 41 km
Stations
Welwyn North railway station, 3.2 km · Welwyn Garden City railway station, 2.6 km · Wheathampstead railway station, 4 km
  • London → Ayot Green
    34 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £3.5–5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ayot Green
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–19
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Ayot Green
    142 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ayot Green

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 Ayot Green. 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

    146 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    315 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    388 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    528 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    564 km

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Around it

Next door to Ayot Green

Ayot Green is 29 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ayot St Lawrencevillage in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Welwynvillage and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, UK2.4 km
  • Wheathampsteadvillage in Hertfordshire, England4 km
  • Ayot St Petervillage and civil parish in Hertfordshire, UK1.1 km
  • Lemsfordvillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK1.6 km
  • Digswellvillage in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom2.6 km