Kimpton

Worth seeing in and around Kimpton

4 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
   St Paul's Walden Bury

   St. Paul's Walden Bury is an English country house and surrounding gardens in the village of St Paul's Walden in Hertfordshire.

   3.7 km · country house and gardens in St Paul's Walden, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Shaw's Corner

   Shaw's Corner was the primary residence of the renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw; it is now a National Trust property open to the public as a writer's house museum. Inside the house, the rooms remain much as Shaw left them, and the garden and Shaw's writing hut can also be visited.

   2.9 km · writer's house museum in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   New Saint Lawrence Church

   St Lawrence Church is an eighteenth-century, neoclassical church in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England. It is also known as New St Lawrence Church to distinguish it from the ruined Old St Lawrence Church.

   2.4 km · Grade I listed church in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Old St Lawrence Church, Ayot St Lawrence

   Old St Lawrence Church is a ruined building in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England. It is protected as a Grade II* listed building, and dates back to the 12th century.

   2.7 km · church in Ayot St Lawrence, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kimpton

Airports

London Luton (LTN), 5 km · London Stansted (STN), 37 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 44 km

Stations

Wheathampstead railway station, 4 km

• London → Kimpton

  40 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £4.5–6
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Kimpton

  130 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £14–18
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Kimpton

  136 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £15–20
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