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Codicote

Codicote is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England.

Codicote
Codicote · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Codicote is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies 7 miles (11 km) south of Hitchin, its post town, and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Welwyn. Codicote was a small market town between the 13th and 16th centuries. The population of the parish was 3,586 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Codicote

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
    Knebworth House

    Knebworth House is an English country house in the parish of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.9 km · country house in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Concerts at Knebworth House

    The Knebworth Festival is a recurring open-air rock and pop festival held on the grounds of Knebworth House in Knebworth, England. The festival first occurred in July 1974 when the Allman Brothers Band, the Doobie Brothers and other artists attracted 60,000 people.

    3 km · open-air rock and pop concert · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    4 km · neighbourhood in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.8 km · writer's house museum in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Mary and St Thomas, Knebworth

    The Church of St Mary and St Thomas is one of two Anglican churches in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England. The church dates from the twelfth century and is a grade I listed building.

    3.1 km · church in Knebworth, 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.

    2.8 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.

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

    3.4 km · country house near Welwyn, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Homewood

    Homewood is an Arts and Crafts style country house in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England. Designed and built by architect Edwin Lutyens around 1900–3, using a mixture of vernacular and Neo-Georgian architecture, it is a Grade II* listed building.

    2.7 km · country house in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Danesbury Park

    Danesbury Park is a 24.5-hectare public park and Local Nature Reserve in Welwyn in Hertfordshire. It is owned and managed by Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council.

    1.9 km · park in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Codicote

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 9 km · London Stansted (STN), 33 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 45 km
Stations
Knebworth railway station, 3.9 km
  • London → Codicote
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £4–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Codicote
    133 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £14–19
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Codicote
    137 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £15–21
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Codicote

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 Codicote. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt's a major hub for the budget airlines easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air, and for charter flights by Tui.

From Wikivoyage: Luton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    149 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    316 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    386 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    525 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    560 km

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

Around it

Next door to Codicote

Codicote is 33 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Knebworthvillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK4 km
  • Ayot St Lawrencevillage in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom2.8 km
  • Welwynvillage and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Woolmer Greenvillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Ayot St Petervillage and civil parish in Hertfordshire, UK3 km
  • Kimptonvillage and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, UK3.3 km