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Flamstead

Flamstead is a village and civil parish in north-west Hertfordshire, England, near the junction of the A5 and the M1 motorway.

Flamstead
Flamstead · Tilman2007
The place

Flamstead is a village and civil parish in north-west Hertfordshire, England, near the junction of the A5 and the M1 motorway. At the 2021 Census, the parish had a population of 1,551.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Flamstead

4 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
    Golden Parsonage

    The Golden Parsonage is a Grade II* listed country house in Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, and is part of the Gaddesden Estate. The house remains in the ownership of the Halsey Family.

    3.4 km · country house at Great Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Parish Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is an active Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Redbourn, Hertfordshire, England. The building is Grade I listed.

    3.7 km · church in Redbourn, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cell Park

    Cell Park is a country house in Markyate, Hertfordshire near Luton, England. The house dates from the 16th century, has been modified at various times since then and was largely rebuilt in 1908 after a fire.

    3.3 km · country house in Markyate, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Beechwood Park

    Beechwood Park was a mansion, near Markyate, Hertfordshire, England. It now houses Beechwood Park School.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed English country house in Flamstead, Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England, UK · 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.

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Getting to Flamstead

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 8 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 39 km · London Stansted (STN), 47 km
  • London, Essex → Flamstead
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £4.5–6
  • London → Flamstead
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £4.5–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Flamstead
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £13–18
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Flamstead

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 Flamstead. 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

    139 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    302 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    400 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    520 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    555 km

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

Around it

Next door to Flamstead

Flamstead is 31 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Slip Endvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Redbournvillage and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, UK3.5 km
  • Markyatevillage and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England2.3 km
  • Pepperstockvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.5 km
  • Harpenden Ruralcivil parish in Hertfordshire, England, UK3 km
  • Kinsbourne Greenhamlet in Hertfordshire, England, UK3.5 km