Digswell

Worth seeing in and around Digswell

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.

   2.1 km · garden city and new town in Hertfordshire, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   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.

   800 m · railway viaduct in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England · 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.

   1.2 km · neighbourhood in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council Offices

   The Council Offices, also known as the Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council Offices, is a municipal building on The Campus in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. The structure accommodates the offices and meeting place of Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council.

   2.6 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   The Nabisco Shredded Wheat Factory

   The Nabisco Shredded Wheat Factory is a disused factory which formerly produced variants of the shredded wheat breakfast cereal in Welwyn Garden City, in the United Kingdom. It was designed by architect Louis de Soissons to encourage companies to establish factories in the industrial areas of garden cities.

   2.7 km · building in Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Howard Centre

   The Howard Centre is a shopping centre in Welwyn Garden City. It is named after Sir Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement.

   2.9 km · shopping mall in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Sir Frederic Osborn School

   Ridgeway Academy, formerly Sir Frederic Osborn School, which itself was formed by the merging in 1968 of Attimore Hall School and The High School, is a secondary school in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. The school was built in 1956 as The High School and then Attimore Hall School was built adjacent to it in 1960, it is located in the Panshanger district of the town.

   2.7 km · academy in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Barn Theatre, Welwyn Garden City

   The Barn Theatre, located in Welwyn Garden City, England is a Grade II listed, 17th-century timber-framed barn converted to a community theatre in 1931. It is owned by The Barn Theatre Trust and used by a local amateur theatre company, The Barn Theatre Club.

   3.5 km · theatre in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Marden Hill

   Marden Hill is a Grade II* listed country house close to the village of Tewin, Hertfordshire. The house, originally Jacobean but substantially rebuilt in the 18th-century and modified in the 19th, is built in two storeys with attics of yellow brick with Portland stone dressings.

   3.4 km · Grade II* listed country house in Tewin, 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.

    2.4 km · park in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Digswell

Airports

London Luton (LTN), 13 km · London Stansted (STN), 30 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 44 km

Stations

Panshanger Aerodrome, 3.3 km · Welwyn North railway station, 300 m · Welwyn Garden City railway station, 2.9 km

• London → Digswell

  35 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £4–5
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Digswell

  137 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £16–21
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Digswell

  141 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £17–23
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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 Digswell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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