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Widford

Widford is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England.

The place

Widford is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies 4 miles (6 km) east of Ware, its post town. The River Ash flows through the north of the parish. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 659.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Widford

4 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
    Henry Moore Foundation

    The Henry Moore Foundation is a registered charity in England, established for education and promotion of the fine arts — in particular, to advance understanding of the works of Henry Moore, and to promote the public appreciation of sculpture more generally. The Foundation is also tasked with administering the sale, exhibition and conservation of Moore's work in perpetuity.

    2.5 km · charity and museum in England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hunsdon House

    Hunsdon House is a historic house in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England, northwest of Harlow. Originally constructed in the 15th century, it was most notably the estate of King Henry VIII. It has been rebuilt several times since then, and is no longer as grand as it was in the Tudor era.

    3 km · Grade I listed English country house in East Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Parish Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Gilston, Hertfordshire, England. It dates from the 13th century.

    2.9 km · church in Gilston, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Moor Place

    Moor Place is a country house within the civil parish of Much Hadham, in the East Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. It is designated in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed building in East 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 Widford

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 14 km · London Luton (LTN), 30 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 53 km
Stations
Hunsdon Airfield, 1.8 km
  • London → Widford
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £4.5–6
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Widford
    152 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £17–23
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Widford
    150 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £19–25
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Widford

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 Widford. 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

    158 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    335 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    370 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    539 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    575 km

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

Around it

Next door to Widford

Widford is 34 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Much Hadhamvillage and civil parish in Hertfordshire, UK3.7 km
  • Waresidevillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Hunsdonvillage and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England1.8 km
  • Perry Greenhamlet in Hertfordshire, England2.6 km
  • Allen's Greenvillage in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom2.8 km
  • Babbs Greenhamlet in Hertfordshire, England, UK2.6 km