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Hunsdon

Hunsdon is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England.

Hunsdon
Hunsdon · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Hunsdon is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of the centre of Ware, its post town, and 3 miles (5 km) north-west of the centre of Harlow. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,194.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hunsdon

6 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
    Henry Moore Foundation

    The Henry Moore Foundation is a registered charity in England, established for education and promotion of the fine arts — in particular, to advance understanding of the works of Henry Moore, and to promote the public appreciation of sculpture more generally. The Foundation is also tasked with administering the sale, exhibition and conservation of Moore's work in perpetuity.

    3.9 km · charity and museum in England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St James' Church, Stanstead Abbotts

    St James' Church is a redundant Anglican church near the village of Stanstead Abbotts, Hertfordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building, having been designated in 1967.

    3.6 km · church in Stanstead Abbotts, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hunsdon House

    Hunsdon House is a historic house in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England, northwest of Harlow. Originally constructed in the 15th century, it was most notably the estate of King Henry VIII. It has been rebuilt several times since then, and is no longer as grand as it was in the Tudor era.

    1.4 km · Grade I listed English country house in East Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Briggens House

    Briggens House is a Grade II listed 18th-century house and parklands in Hertfordshire, England, near the border with Essex and the village of Roydon. It has a number of features from the garden designer Charles Bridgeman from 1720.

    3 km · country house in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    All Nations Christian College

    All Nations Christian College is an English missions college, located at Chester House, 30 Pages Lane, Muswell Hill in London and validated by the Open University.

    3.8 km · missions college, located in Hertfordshire and validated by the Open University · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Parish Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Gilston, Hertfordshire, England. It dates from the 13th century.

    2.3 km · church in Gilston, 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.

Go there

Getting to Hunsdon

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 15 km · London Luton (LTN), 30 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 52 km
Stations
Roydon railway station, 3.9 km · Hunsdon Airfield, 1.1 km
  • London → Hunsdon
    34 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £4–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Hunsdon
    153 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £17–23
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hunsdon
    145 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hunsdon

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 Hunsdon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.

From Wikivoyage: Harlow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    156 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    335 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    371 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

    576 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hunsdon

Hunsdon is 32 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Gilstonvillage and civil parish in East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, UK3.7 km
  • Widfordvillage in East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom1.6 km
  • Stanstead Abbottsvillage in Hertfordshire, UK3.6 km
  • Waresidevillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Eastwickcivil parish in Hertfordshire, England2.9 km
  • Allen's Greenvillage in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom3.4 km