Hertfordshire - Landmarks

Landmarks

Below is a list of places, large and small, to visit in Hertfordshire.

  • Aldenham Country Park
  • Ashridge estate and house. The Neo Gothic house by James Wyatt, is a Grade 1 listed building (and is not open to the public) but the estate is National Trust land.
    • Bridgewater Monument built in 1832 in memory of Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater. 108 feet (33 m) tall and open to the public to ascend to the top.
  • Berkhamsted Castle
  • Butterfly World, Chiswell Green
  • de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, between London Colney and South Mimms
  • Gardens of the Rose, Chiswell Green, near St Albans. Home of the Royal National Rose Society
  • Hatfield
    • Hatfield House – Jacobean house, gardens and park
    • Mill Green Watermill in Hatfield
  • Henry Moore Foundation, Much Hadham – sculpture park on the work of Henry Moore
  • Knebworth House, 250 acres (1.0 km2) of country park, venue of regular rock and pop festivals.
  • Letchworth Garden City World's first Garden City. Home of the first planned Green Belt, the UK's first roundabout, and a number of experiments in early town planning and house and factory design.
    • Spirella Building
  • Magic Roundabout (Hemel Hempstead) a complex road junction.
  • Royston Cave in Royston town centre
  • St Albans
    • Beech Bottom Dyke – large scale iron age defensive or boundary ditch
    • Sopwell Nunnery
    • St Albans Cathedral
    • Verulamium – Roman town remains, including museum of Roman life and the remains of a Roman amphitheatre.
    • Ye Olde Fighting Cocks – a claimant to being the oldest pub in Britain
  • Scott's Grotto, Ware on the outskirts of town
  • Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence – home of George Bernard Shaw
  • Stevenage – the first UK New Town
    • Six Hills Roman barrows site
  • Therfield Heath – a local nature reserve in the north of the county.
  • Welwyn Viaduct to the north of Welwyn Garden City.
  • Rye House Gatehouse in Hoddesdon (part of the Rye House Plot to assassinate King Charles II).
  • Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring. One of the finest collections of stuffed mammals, birds, reptiles and insects in the UK.

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