Walkern

Worth seeing in and around Walkern

2 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
   Benington Castle

   Benington Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Benington, near Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England at grid reference TL296236. It has been protected since 1936 as a scheduled monument.

   2.8 km · Grade I listed castle in East Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin

   The parish church of St Mary the Virgin in Walkern, Hertfordshire, dates from before the Norman Conquest and has been altered in the succeeding centuries. The nave retains at least one Anglo-Saxon wall.

   700 m · Grade I listed church in Walkern, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Walkern

Airports

London Luton (LTN), 17 km · London Stansted (STN), 25 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 55 km

• London → Walkern

  46 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £5–7
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Walkern

  136 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £14–19
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Walkern

  134 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Walkern

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 Walkern. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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