Little Amwell
Little Amwell was formerly a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, lying 1.6 miles (2.6 km) south-east of the county town of Hertford.
Little Amwell was formerly a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, lying 1.6 miles (2.6 km) south-east of the county town of Hertford. The old village of Little Amwell forms the northern part of the modern village of Hertford Heath. The civil parish of Little Amwell was abolished in 1990, merging with parts of the neighbouring parishes of Great Amwell, Stanstead St Margarets, and Ware to form the new parish of Hertford Heath. Little Amwell remains the name of the ecclesiastical parish which covers Hertford Heath. In 1961 the parish had a population of 982.
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Worth seeing in and around Little Amwell
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.
- 01Hertford Castle
Hertford Castle is a Norman era castle built beside the River Lea in Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire, England. Most of the internal buildings of the structure have been demolished.
2.7 km · Grade I listed castle in East Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02All Saints' Church
All Saints' Church is in Queens Road, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Hertford and Ware, the archdeaconry of Hertford, and the diocese of St Albans.
2.4 km · church in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Bayfordbury Observatory
Bayfordbury Observatory is the University of Hertfordshire's astronomical and atmospheric physics remote sensing observatory, and one of the largest teaching observatories in the UK. It is located in the relatively dark countryside of Bayfordbury, Hertfordshire, 6 miles from the main university campus in Hatfield. The first telescope was built in 1969, and since then has been used as a teaching observatory for undergraduate students, staff and student research as well as for public outreach activities.
3.8 km · observatory in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Balls Park
Balls Park in Hertford is a Grade I Listed mid-17th-century house. The estate and house are set in over 63 acres of parkland which is listed Grade II on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.
1.9 km · Grade I listed building in East Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of Saint Leonard, Bengeo
The Church of Saint Leonard is a Norman church in Bengeo, Hertfordshire, England. Located on the hillside overlooking the shared Beane and Lea valley, the Grade I Listed church dates from about 1120, and is the oldest building in Hertford.
3.3 km · church in East Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Bailey Hall
Bayley Hall is a Grade II* listed building located on Queens Road in Hertford, Hertfordshire. Constructed primarily around 1770, it is regarded as one of the finest examples of early 18th-century domestic architecture in Hertford.
2.5 km · house in Hertford, East Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Hoddesdon Town Hall
Hoddesdon Town Hall, also known as Hoddesdon Clock House, was a municipal building in the High Street in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, England. Except for the clock tower, which survives, the building was demolished in 1967.
3.6 km · town hall in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Shire Hall
The Shire Hall is a municipal building in Fore Street, Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire, England. The building, which currently serves as a Magistrates' Court, is a Grade I listed building.
2.6 km · Grade I listed building in East Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Church of St Mary
St Mary's Church is a grade I listed parish church in Ware, Hertfordshire, England.
2.8 km · church in Ware, East Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Bayfordbury
Bayfordbury, Hertfordshire, is a large Grade II* listed country house with surrounding parkland, and the location of a University of Hertfordshire campus, housing its biology/geography field station and observatory.
3.8 km · country house in Bayford, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Little Amwell
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 22 km · London Luton (LTN), 24 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 45 km
- Stations
- Hertford North railway station, 3.6 km · Hertford East railway station, 2.5 km · Rye House railway station, 3.9 km · Ware railway station, 2.5 km · St Margarets railway station, 3 km
- London → Little Amwell31 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £3–4
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Little Amwell149 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £17–22
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Little Amwell151 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £18–24
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Little Amwell
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 Little Amwell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.
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Next door to Little Amwell
Little Amwell is 28 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Waretown in Hertfordshire, England3.5 km
- Hoddesdontown in Hertfordshire, England3.7 km
- Stanstead St Margaretsvillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK3 km
- Hertford Heathvillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK600 m
- Stanstead Abbottsvillage in Hertfordshire, UK3.8 km
- Great Amwellvillage in Hertfordshire, England2.2 km