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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.

The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Hertford 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
  2. 02
    All 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
  3. 03
    Bayfordbury 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
  4. 04
    Balls 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
  5. 05
    Church 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
  6. 06
    Bailey 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
  7. 07
    Hoddesdon 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
  8. 08
    Shire 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
  9. 09
    Church 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
  10. 10
    Bayfordbury

    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

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.

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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 Amwell
    31 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £3–4
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Little Amwell
    149 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £17–22
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Little Amwell
    151 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £18–24
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    150 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    328 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    378 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    538 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    574 km

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

Around it

Next door to Little Amwell

Little Amwell is 28 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.