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Elstree

Elstree is a large village in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire, England.

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The place

Elstree is a large village in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire, England. It is about 11.5 miles northwest of central London on the former A5 road, which follows the course of Watling Street. In 2011, its population was 5,110. It forms part of the civil parish of Elstree and Borehamwood, originally known simply as Elstree.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Elstree

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
    Meadow Park

    Meadow Park, currently known as the Mangata Developments Stadium Meadow Park for sponsorship reasons, is a football ground in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England which serves as the home ground of Boreham Wood Football Club. It also hosts Arsenal's youth teams and select women's team matches.

    2.8 km · home ground of Boreham Wood FC and Arsenal Women FC · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Canons Park

    Canons Park is a public park and the name of its surrounding residential area, in the Edgware district of the London Borough of Harrow, north-west London. Canons Park was a country estate which partially survives today as a public park.

    3.9 km · suburb of, and park in, London, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.5 km · Hindu temple, formerly a country house, in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stanmore Country Park

    Stanmore Country Park is a 30.7-hectare public park, Local Nature Reserve and Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation in Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow. It is owned and managed by Harrow London Borough Council.

    2.5 km · country park and nature reserve in the London Borough of Harrow, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Lawrence, Little Stanmore

    St. Lawrence, Whitchurch, is a Church of England parish church in Little Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow, England.

    4 km · church of England church in Stanmore, London · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Broadwalk Centre

    The Broadwalk Centre is a shopping centre located in the town of Edgware, Greater London, and is owned by Ballymore Group having been purchased from Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, having been purchased from The Carlyle Group and Bride Hall Holdings for £70 million in March 2012. The centre is 190,000 sq ft in area and was opened in 1990 at the site of the former Edgware railway station building.

    3.8 km · shopping mall in Edgware, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Brunton Memorial Ground

    Brunton Memorial Ground is a cricket ground at Radlett in Hertfordshire. The ground is the home of Radlett Cricket Club and, since 2013, has been used as an outground by Middlesex County Cricket Club.

    3.7 km · cricket ground · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Aldenham Country Park

    Aldenham Country Park is a 175-acre parkland and woodland, including Aldenham Reservoir. It is now part of the Watling Chase Community Forest, near Elstree, Hertfordshire, England.

    1.1 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Aldenham House

    Aldenham House is an English country house in Elstree, just south-east of Aldenham village and west of Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England. It was the seat of the Gibbs family, who were the Barons Aldenham, and is now a main building of the Haberdashers' Boys' School, while its estate accommodates the other school buildings, the Haberdashers' School for Girls, the Lister Institute, and the Hilfield Reservoir.

    1.7 km · country house in Aldenham, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Aldenham Reservoir

    Aldenham Reservoir is situated in the parish of Elstree and Borehamwood in Hertfordshire, England, about one mile to the west of the village of Elstree. It is the source of the stream, Tykes Water, that runs north through Radlett.

    900 m · reservoir in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Elstree

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 22 km · London Luton (LTN), 26 km · London Stansted (STN), 46 km
Stations
Stanmore tube station, 2.7 km · Edgware tube station, 3.7 km · Canons Park tube station, 4 km · Elstree Aerodrome, 2.3 km · Elstree & Borehamwood railway station, 1.7 km
  • London → Elstree
    19 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £2–3
  • London, Essex → Elstree
    19 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £2–3
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Elstree
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Elstree

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 Elstree. 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

    127 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    308 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    401 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    541 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    577 km

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

Around it

Next door to Elstree

Elstree is 10 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Borehamwoodtown in Hertfordshire, England, UK2.4 km
  • Edgwaresuburban town in the London Boroughs of Harrow and Barnet3.3 km
  • Hertsmerelocal government district with borough status in Hertfordshire, England2.7 km
  • Stanmorearea in the London Borough of Harrow, England, UK3.5 km
  • Elstree and Borehamwoodcivil parish in Hertfordshire, England, UK800 m
  • Letchmore Heathvillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK3.6 km