Ayot St Lawrence
Ayot St Lawrence is a small village in Hertfordshire. It lies between Harpenden and Welwyn Garden City. It is mainly known as the home of George Bernard Shaw from 1906 until his death in 1950.Photo: Jason Ballard, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 110 residents
- Description: village in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Ayot Saint Lawrence”, “Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire”, and “Ayot St. Lawrence”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shaw’s Corner and New St Lawrence Church, Ayot St Lawrence.
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.
New St Lawrence Church, Ayot St Lawrence
Church
Photo: David Edgar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Codicote and Wheathampstead.
Codicote
Village
Photo: Melvyn Cousins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Codicote is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies 7 miles south of Hitchin, its post town, and 1.5 miles north of Welwyn.
Wheathampstead
Village
Photo: Legis, Public domain.
Wheathampstead is a large village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, north of St Albans. Included within the parish is the small hamlet of Amwell.
Welwyn
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Welwyn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also includes the nearby villages and settlements of Digswell, Mardley Heath and Oaklands.
Ayot St Lawrence
- Categories: village and civil parish
- Location: Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Ayot St Lawrence” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Այոթ Սենթ Լորենս”
- Basque: “Ayot St Lawrence”
- Belarusian: “Эёт Сэнт Лоўрэнс”
- Catalan: “Ayot Saint Lawrence”
- Catalan: “Ayot St. Lawrence”
- Cebuano: “Ayot St. Lawrence”
- Czech: “Ayot St. Lawrence”
- Dutch: “Ayot Saint Lawrence”
- Dutch: “Ayot St Lawrence”
- French: “Ayot St Lawrence”
- Galician: “Ayot Saint Lawrence”
- Galician: “Ayot St. Lawrence”
- Georgian: “ეიოტ-სენტ-ლოურენსი”
- German: “Ayot Saint Lawrence”
- German: “Ayot St Lawrence”
- Hebrew: “איוט סנט לורנס”
- Irish: “Ayot St Lawrence”
- Italian: “Ayot St Lawrence”
- Ladin: “Ayot St Lawrence”
- Luxembourgish: “Ayot Saint Lawrence”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ayot St Lawrence”
- Persian: “آیوت سنت لاورنس”
- Polish: “Ayot St Lawrence”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ayot Saint Lawrence”
- Slovenian: “Ayot Saint Lawrence”
- Spanish: “Ayot Saint Lawrence”
- Spanish: “Ayot St. Lawrence”
- Swedish: “Ayot St. Lawrence”
- Turkish: “Ayot St Lawrence”
- Welsh: “Ayot St Lawrence”
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