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Great Gaddesden

Great Gaddesden is a village and civil parish in Dacorum Hundred in Hertfordshire, England.

Great Gaddesden
Great Gaddesden · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Great Gaddesden is a village and civil parish in Dacorum Hundred in Hertfordshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, north of Hemel Hempstead. The parish borders Flamstead, Hemel Hempstead, Nettleden and Little Gaddesden and also Studham in Bedfordshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Gaddesden

8 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
    Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

    Amaravati is a Theravada Buddhist monastery at the eastern end of the Chiltern Hills in South East England. Established in 1984 by Ajahn Sumedho as an extension of Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, the monastery has its roots in the Thai Forest Tradition.

    700 m · Theravada Buddhist monastery in England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    2.5 km · country house at Great Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Gaddesden Place

    Gaddesden Place is a country house located near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, England. It was designed by architect James Wyatt and was built between 1768 and 1773, and was the home of the Hertfordshire Halsey family.

    1 km · country house in Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Beechwood Park

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

    3.6 km · Grade I listed English country house in Flamstead, Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    130-136, Piccotts End

    130–136 Piccotts End is a medieval timber framed building in Piccotts End in Hertfordshire, England. Originally a hall house, the structure has been divided into a row of cottages.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed building in Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Gaddesden Hall

    Gaddesden Hall is a Grade II* listed manor house in Water End, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England. It was the manor-house for the manor of Southall, a sub-manor of Great Gaddesden, and was originally called Southall.

    2.2 km · house in Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Hoo

    The Hoo is a Grade II* listed country house in Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England. It dates from around 1683.

    1.7 km · country house in Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Inns of Court War Memorial

    The Inns of Court Officers Training Corps Memorial is a First World War memorial near Berkhamsted, in the west of Hertfordshire. It is now on land that forms part of Berkhamsted Golf Course.

    3.1 km · war memorial in 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 Great Gaddesden

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 13 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 36 km · London Stansted (STN), 52 km
  • London, Essex → Great Gaddesden
    40 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £4.5–6
  • London → Great Gaddesden
    40 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £4.5–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Great Gaddesden
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Gaddesden

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 Great Gaddesden. 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

    135 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    296 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    406 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    519 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    555 km

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Around it

Next door to Great Gaddesden

Great Gaddesden is 30 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.