Maple Cross
Maple Cross is a village in Hertfordshire, England, which up until the Second World War consisted of an inn, a blacksmith's shop and a few cottages.
Maple Cross is a village in Hertfordshire, England, which up until the Second World War consisted of an inn, a blacksmith's shop and a few cottages. Today there are around 800 postwar council houses. Some of these have been sold into private ownership. The area is close by junction 17 of the M25 motorway, which makes up the western boundary of the village. It lies on the western fringe of Rickmansworth, about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Watford and 6 miles north of Uxbridge.
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Worth seeing in and around Maple Cross
5 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.
- 01Chiltern Open Air Museum
Chiltern Open Air Museum is an independent open-air museum of vernacular buildings and a tourist attraction located near Chalfont St Peter and Chalfont St. Giles in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England.
2.6 km · Museum in the Chiltern Hills, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Shrubs Wood
Shrubs Wood is a privately owned, Grade II* listed, Art Deco country house in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England. Built between 1933 and 1934, Shrubs Wood was designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff.
3.1 km · house in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Rickmansworth Aquadrome
Rickmansworth Aquadrome is a 41-hectare public park and Local Nature Reserve in Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. It is owned and managed by Three Rivers District Council.
2.3 km · park and nature reserve in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Old Park Wood
Old Park Wood is a 16.7-hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest in Harefield in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The southeast part is an 8-hectare nature reserve owned and managed by the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust.
2 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in London Borough of Hillingdon, UK · Wikipedia - 05Stocker's Lake
Stocker's Lake is an old flooded gravel pit of approx 90 acres at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, within the Colne Valley Regional Park which is designated as a Local Nature Reserve. The lake is owned by Affinity Water and managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust assisted by the Friends of Stocker's Lake.
1.6 km · artificial lake in Hertfordshire/Greater London, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Maple Cross
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 17 km · London Luton (LTN), 29 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 57 km
- Stations
- Chorleywood station, 3.4 km · Rickmansworth station, 3 km
- London → Maple Cross29 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £3.5–4.5
- London, Essex → Maple Cross29 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £3.5–4.5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Maple Cross135 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £15–21
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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 Maple Cross
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 Maple Cross. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Maple Cross
Maple Cross is 16 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Rickmansworthtown in Hertfordshire, England, UK3.4 km
- Three Riverslocal government district in Hertfordshire in the East of England3.2 km
- Chorleywoodlarge village in Hertfordshire, England2.8 km
- Chalfont St Petervillage in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom3.7 km
- Harefieldvillage in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England, UK3.2 km
- Batchworthvillage in Hertfordshire, England3.5 km