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Great Wymondley

Great Wymondley is a village in the civil parish of Wymondley, in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England.

Great Wymondley
Great Wymondley · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Great Wymondley is a village in the civil parish of Wymondley, in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies 2 miles (3 km) east of Hitchin. Despite the names, Great Wymondley is now smaller than its neighbour, Little Wymondley.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Wymondley

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
    Hitchin

    Hitchin is a market town in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. The town dates from at least the 7th century.

    3.2 km · market town in the North Hertfordshire district in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hitchin Flyover

    The Hitchin Flyover is a railway flyover 0.7 miles north of Hitchin railway station in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. The flyover allows the Down Cambridge Flyover line to cross over the four tracks of the congested East Coast Main Line to connect to the Cambridge line, as opposed to the former flat junction at the same location, which remains in situ nevertheless.

    3.6 km · grade-separated single-track railway viaduct on the Great Northern Route near Hitchin · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of Saint Nicholas

    St Nicholas' Church is an Anglican parish church in Stevenage, a town in Hertfordshire, England. It occupies a hilltop site above Old Stevenage.

    3.6 km · church in Stevenage, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wymondley Castle

    Wymondley Castle, also known as Great Wymondley Castle, is a ruined castle in the village of Great Wymondley, near Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. It has been seen as being part of a group of unlicensed castles in Hertfordshire, including Pirton and Therfield.

    200 m · ruined castle in Great Wymondley, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of All Saints

    The Church of All Saints is the Anglican parish church for the village of Willian in Hertfordshire. The benefice is united with St Paul's church in nearby Letchworth, although each church has its own parish.

    2.4 km · church in Willian, North Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Parish Church of St Mary

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the Church of England parish church of Old Letchworth in Hertfordshire. A church appears to have been on the site since before the Norman Conquest.

    2.4 km · church building in Letchworth Garden City, North Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Howgills (Society Of Friends Meeting House)

    Howgills in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, is a Grade II listed building on the Register of Historic England in use as a Meeting House for the Society of Friends. Howgills was built on South View in 1907 to a free-style Arts and Crafts design by Robert Bennett and Benjamin Wilson Bidwell, typical with this firm of architects, although it is thought the design is mostly by Bidwell, a Quaker himself.

    3.4 km · Quaker meeting house in Letchworth Garden City, North Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Town Hall

    Letchworth Town Hall is a municipal building in Broadway, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Letchworth Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.9 km · town hall in Letchworth Garden City, North Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Hugh of Lincoln, Letchworth

    The Church of St Hugh of Lincoln is a Catholic church in Letchworth, Hertfordshire founded by the scholar and priest Adrian Fortescue. The first church was consecrated in 1908 and was dedicated to St Hugh of Lincoln while the modern church which replaced it was built in 1963.

    3.8 km · Catholic church in Letchworth · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St Paul, Letchworth

    The Church of St Paul in Letchworth in Hertfordshire is the Anglican parish church for the Letchworth Gate area of the town at the top of Pixmore Way. Dating from 1923, with later extensions, it is a 'daughter church' of the nearby Church of All Saints in Willian and comes under the Diocese of St Albans.

    3.9 km · church in Hertfordshire, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Great Wymondley

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 12 km · London Stansted (STN), 33 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 55 km
Stations
Hitchin railway station, 2.2 km
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Wymondley

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 Wymondley. 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

    158 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    318 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    382 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    517 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    552 km

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

Around it

Next door to Great Wymondley

Great Wymondley is 44 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.