Harold Hill
Harold Hill is a suburban area in the London Borough of Havering, East London.
Harold Hill is a suburban area in the London Borough of Havering, East London. 16.6 miles (26.7 km) northeast of Charing Cross. It is a district centre in the London Plan. The name refers to King Harold II, who held the manor of Havering-atte-Bower, and who was killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The suburb is peripheral to London, forming an eastern edge of the urban sprawl.
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Worth seeing in and around Harold Hill
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.
- 01Hare Hall
Hare Hall is a house and grounds located in Gidea Park in the London Borough of Havering, east London. It was built in 1769–70 as a country house for John A. Wallinger and since 1921 has housed the Royal Liberty School.
3.1 km · mansion in Gidea Park, London Borough of Havering, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Dagnam Park
Dagnam Park is a public park located in Harold Hill in the London Borough of Havering. It is a remnant of the grounds of Dagnams Park, the house of the manor of Dagnams.
600 m · park in London, named after the manor house · Wikipedia - 03Weald Country Park
Weald Country Park is a 700-year-old, 500 acre country park in South Weald in the borough of Brentwood in the English county of Essex. It is on the north-east fringe of Greater London.
3 km · park north-west of Brentwood, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Michael and All Angels Church, Gidea Park
St Michael and All Angels Church is a Church of England parish church in the Gidea Park area of Romford, east London. The area had become a garden suburb in the 1910s and a church dedicated to St Michael was built there in 1928, as a mission church of the parish church of All Saints Squirrels Heath.
3.3 km · church of england church · Wikipedia - 05Tylers Common
Tylers Common, also known as Upminster Common, is common land in the London Borough of Havering. It is one of the largest areas of common land in Greater London, with 32.06 hectares of protected commons.
2.7 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Bower House
The Bower House is a Grade I listed Palladian mansion in Havering-atte-Bower, England. It was built in 1729 by Henry Flitcroft, and was his first commission.
3.5 km · country house in Havering, London, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church of St John the Evangelist, Havering-atte-Bower
St John the Evangelist, Havering-atte-Bower is a Church of England religious building in the village of Havering-atte-Bower, an outlying settlement of the London Borough of Havering.
3.5 km · church in Havering-atte-Bower, Havering, London · Wikipedia - 08Pyrgo Park
Pyrgo Park is a park at Havering-atte-Bower in the London Borough of Havering, England. It is the site of the former Pirgo Palace, built before 1540 and demolished by 1814; and of Pyrgo House, built 1852, which lasted less than a century.
2.5 km · park on the site of an ancient royal palace · Wikipedia - 09Pages Wood
Pages Wood is a 74 hectare wood and public park in Harold Wood in the London Borough of Havering. It is the largest Forestry England site in the Thames Chase Community Forest, and 100,000 trees have been planted since it opened in 2002.
2.8 km · woodland and park in the London Borough of Havering, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Gidea Hall
Gidea Hall was a manor house in Gidea Park, in the historic Royal Liberty of Havering, whose former area today is part of the north-eastern extremity of Greater London. The first record of Gidea Hall is in 1250, and by 1410 it was in the hands of one Robert Chichele.
3.6 km · Manor house in Essex, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Harold Hill
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 31 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 50 km · London Luton (LTN), 51 km
- Stations
- Harold Wood railway station, 1.9 km · Gidea Park railway station, 3.6 km
- London → Harold Hill26 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £2.5–3.5
- Luton, Luton → Harold Hill53 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £7–9
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Harold Hill175 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Harold Hill
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 Harold Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Harold Hill
Harold Hill is 25 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Havering-atte-Bowervillage in London Borough of Havering, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Harold Woodsuburb of London2 km
- Gidea Parkarea in the London Borough of Havering2.8 km
- Ardleigh Greenarea of East London, England3.2 km
- Noak Hillvillage in the London Borough of Havering, England, UK1 km
- South Wealdvillage in Essex, United Kingdom3 km