Wheathampstead

Worth seeing in and around Wheathampstead

7 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
   Brocket Hall

   Brocket Hall is a neo-classical country house set in a large park at the western side of the urban area of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England. The estate includes two golf courses and seven smaller listed buildings, apart from the main house.

   3.7 km · country house in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Shaw's Corner

   Shaw's Corner was the primary residence of the renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw; it is now a National Trust property open to the public as a writer's house museum. Inside the house, the rooms remain much as Shaw left them, and the garden and Shaw's writing hut can also be visited.

   3.1 km · writer's house museum in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   St Helen's Church, Wheathampstead

   St Helen's Church is the oldest church in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England, although the date of its origins is unknown. The wooden Anglo-Saxon structure pre-dated the Norman conquest of England, but no records survive which establish the date upon which it was founded.

   100 m · Grade I listed church in Wheathampstead, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   New Saint Lawrence Church

   St Lawrence Church is an eighteenth-century, neoclassical church in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England. It is also known as New St Lawrence Church to distinguish it from the ruined Old St Lawrence Church.

   3.2 km · Grade I listed church in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Old St Lawrence Church, Ayot St Lawrence

   Old St Lawrence Church is a ruined building in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England. It is protected as a Grade II* listed building, and dates back to the 12th century.

   3.4 km · church in Ayot St Lawrence, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Southdown Road Skew Bridge

   Southdown Road Skew Bridge is a ribbed skew arch railway bridge, which carries the Midland Main Line across Southdown Road in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Built of brick by the Midland Railway and opening in 1868, it is notable for its extreme skew angle of approximately 65°.

   3.7 km · arch bridge in Harpenden, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   St Leonard's Church, Sandridge

   St Leonard's Church is in Sandridge, a village in Hertfordshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church.

   3.5 km · church in Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wheathampstead

Airports

London Luton (LTN), 9 km · London Stansted (STN), 37 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 40 km

Stations

Wheathampstead railway station, 400 m · Harpenden East railway station, 3.5 km

• London → Wheathampstead

  36 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £4–5
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Wheathampstead

  133 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–19
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wheathampstead

  140 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £15–20
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