Watford Rural
Watford Rural is a civil parish in the Three Rivers District of Hertfordshire, England.
Watford Rural is a civil parish in the Three Rivers District of Hertfordshire, England. Located approximately 14 miles (23 km) northwest of central London and adjacent to the Greater London boundary, it is an urbanised parish characterised by suburban residential development. The local council is Watford Rural Parish Council. The parish covers South Oxhey and Carpenders Park, which although part of the Watford urban area, are outside the borough of Watford. The parish was created in 1894 when the ancient Watford parish was split into urban and rural parishes. At the 2011 census it had a population of 20,867.
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Worth seeing in and around Watford Rural
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.
- 01Vicarage Road
Vicarage Road is a stadium in Watford, England, and is the home stadium of Championship club Watford. An all-seater stadium, its current capacity is 22,200.
2.8 km · Association football stadium in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, home to Watford F.C. · Wikipedia - 02Museum of Watford
Watford Museum is a local museum in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom. It is owned by Watford Borough Council.
3.9 km · local museum in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03London School of Theology
The London School of Theology, formerly London Bible College, is a British interdenominational evangelical theological college based in Northwood within the London Borough of Hillingdon.
3.3 km · interdenominational evangelical theological college in Hillingdon, UK · Wikipedia - 04Holy Rood Church
Holy Rood Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Watford, Hertfordshire. It was built from 1889 to 1890.
3.3 km · catholic church in Watford, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St John the Baptist
St John the Baptist, Pinner, is an Anglican church in Church Lane, Pinner, Middlesex.
3.5 km · church in Pinner, London · Wikipedia - 06St Mary's Church
St Mary's Watford is a Church of England church in Watford, Hertfordshire, in England. It is an active church situated in the town centre on Watford High Street, approximately 25 kilometres outside London.
3.2 km · historic church in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Grim's Dyke
Grim's Dyke is a house and estate in Harrow Weald, in northwest London, England. The house was built from 1870 to 1872 by Richard Norman Shaw for painter Frederick Goodall and named after the nearby prehistoric earthwork known as Grim's Ditch.
2.5 km · house (now a hotel) in Harrow Weald, London · Wikipedia - 08Harlequin Centre
Harlequin Watford is a shopping centre in the middle of Watford, Hertfordshire, England. It opened in June 1992 as the Harlequin Shopping Centre.
3.3 km · shopping mall in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09Lululaund
Lululaund was the Romanesque Revival-style house and studio of the Bavarian-born British artist Hubert von Herkomer, in Melbourne Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire. It was designed about 1886 and completed by 1894.
2.8 km · house in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Northwood Cemetery, London
Northwood Cemetery was opened in 1915 as a consequence of population growth in the Northwood area. It is now in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
3.5 km · cemetery in Hillington, London · Wikipedia
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Getting to Watford Rural
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 18 km · London Luton (LTN), 28 km · London Stansted (STN), 52 km
- Stations
- Moor Park tube station, 3 km · Pinner tube station, 3.7 km · Northwood Hills tube station, 3.2 km · Northwood tube station, 3 km · Watford High Street railway station, 3 km
- London → Watford Rural23 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £3–4.5
- London, Essex → Watford Rural23 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £3–4.5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Watford Rural140 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £15–20
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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 Watford Rural
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 Watford Rural. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Watford Rural – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Watford Rural
Watford Rural is 10 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Watfordtown in Hertfordshire, England3.3 km
- Northwoodsettlement in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England3.5 km
- Pinnerarea in the London Borough of Harrow, England, UK3.6 km
- Busheytown in Hertfordshire, England, UK2.7 km
- South Oxheyvillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK700 m
- Hatch Endtown in London Borough of Harrow, United Kingdom2.9 km