Village in Hertfordshire, England

Flamstead

Flamstead is a village and civil parish in north-west Hertfordshire, England, near the junction of the A5 and the M1 motorway.

Plan a trip to Flamstead→From London, Essex

Every way there

London, Essex → Flamstead
41 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £4.5–6
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London → Flamstead
41 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £4.5–6
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Flamstead
124 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £13–18
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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.

The field note

What is in and around Flamstead, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Flamstead has

YScheduled flightsLuton, Luton (LTN), 8 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Luton, 7 km.

51.819°, -0.437°

At the 2021 Census, the parish had a population of 1,551.

How locals move

Getting around Flamstead the local way

Get inIt's a major hub for the budget airlines easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air, and for charter flights by Tui.

From Wikivoyage: Luton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Tilman2007 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.