Hitchin Hill

Hitchin Hill is a locality in North Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, England. Hitchin Hill is situated nearby to the suburb Sunnyside, as well as near the hamlet Charlton.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hitchin Cemetery and British Schools Museum.

Hitchin Cemetery

Cemetery

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Hitchin Cemetery, also known as St John's Road Cemetery, is the main burial ground for the town of Hitchin in Hertfordshire. The cemetery is located on Hitchin Hill, with Standhill Road running along the north-western boundary and St.

British Schools Museum

Museum

Photo: Jack1956, Public domain.

The British Schools Museum is an educational museum based in original Edwardian and Victorian school buildings in Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. The museum complex is made up of listed school buildings housing infants, girls and boys schools with houses for Master and Mistress.

St Mary’s Church, Hitchin

Church

Photo: Jack1956, CC0.

St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. St Mary's Church is the largest parish church in Hertfordshire, and is remarkably large for a town of the size of Hitchin — this has been cited as evidence of how Hitchin prospered from the wool trade.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hitchin and Charlton.

Hitchin

Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hitchin is a town with 33,350 inhabitants in 2011 35 mi miles north of London in the county of Hertfordshire. Hitchin is an old market town first mentioned 1,000 years ago.

Charlton

Hamlet

Charlton is a hamlet in the county of Hertfordshire, in the East of England. It is a component hamlet of the market town of Hitchin, forming a part of the Hitchin Priory ward.

Gosmore

Village

Gosmore is a hamlet in the parish of St Ippolyts near Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. One interesting feature is Bunyan's Dell, a natural amphitheatre deep inside Wain Wood where the author of The Pilgrim's Progress preached in secret when his faith was persecuted after the Restoration.

Hitchin Hill

Type: Locality
Location: North Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.9414° or 51° 56′ 29″ north

Longitude

-0.27532° or 0° 16′ 31″ west

Elevation

289 feet (88 metres)

Open location code

9C3XWPRF+HV

GeoNames ID

13272029

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