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Ickleford

Ickleford is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England.

Ickleford
Ickleford · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ickleford is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies immediately north of the town of Hitchin, from which it is separated by the River Oughton. It lies west of the River Hiz and to the east of the A600 road. The village has two greens: Upper Green by the parish church of St Katharine at the centre of the village, and the larger Lower Green to the north. The population of the parish was 1,936 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ickleford

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.

    2.6 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.

    1.4 km · grade-separated single-track railway viaduct on the Great Northern Route near Hitchin · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.8 km · church building in Letchworth Garden City, North Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.9 km · Quaker meeting house in Letchworth Garden City, North Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.8 km · town hall in Letchworth Garden City, North Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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
  7. 07
    Church of St Katharine, Ickleford

    The Church of St Katharine of Alexandria is the Church of England parish church for Ickleford in Hertfordshire. It comes under the diocese of St Albans.

    200 m · church in Ickleford, North Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Oughtonhead Lane

    Oughtonhead Lane is a 0.9-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hitchin in Hertfordshire. The local planning authority is North Hertfordshire District Council.

    1.9 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hitchin · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Hitchin Town Hall

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

    2.3 km · movie theater in North Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    North Hertfordshire Museum

    North Hertfordshire Museum is a museum that displays collections relating to local history and heritage. It is located adjacent to the refurbished Hitchin Town Hall on Brand Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

    2.4 km · museum in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ickleford

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 12 km · London Stansted (STN), 37 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 57 km
Stations
Letchworth Garden City railway station, 3.9 km · Hitchin railway station, 2.4 km
  • London → Ickleford
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £6–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ickleford
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £13–18
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Ickleford
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £15–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ickleford

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 Ickleford. 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

    159 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    316 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    384 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    512 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    547 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ickleford

Ickleford is 46 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Letchworth Garden Citytown in Hertfordshire, England3.8 km
  • Pirtonvillage and civil parish in North Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, England3.4 km
  • Holwellvillage and a civil parish in North Hertfordshire, England1.8 km
  • Walsworthvillage in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Beartonsuburb of Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, England, UK1.4 km