Harpenden
Harpenden is a town in Hertfordshire near the border of Bedfordshire. It is between and near to the city of St Albans and Luton. Primarily a residential community, in the outside of the London commuter belt, but if passing through, there are interesting sights and pleasant places to be enjoyed in this town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Harpenden railway station and Rothamsted Park.
Harpenden railway station
Railway station
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Harpenden railway station is on the Midland Main Line in England, serving the town of Harpenden, Hertfordshire. It is 24 miles 51 chains down the line from London St Pancras and is situated between St Albans City to the south and Luton Airport Parkway to the north.
Rothamsted Park
Park
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Rothamsted Park is a 56-acre public park in Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
Lydekker Park
Park
Lydekker Park is a 3-acre park in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. The land was formerly part of the garden of Harpenden Lodge, built in 1803, home for many years to the Lydekkers, one of the town's oldest families.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Redbourn and East Hyde.
Redbourn
Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Redbourn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. It is located 3 miles from Harpenden, 4 miles from St Albans and 5 miles from Hemel Hempstead. The civil parish had a population of 6,913 according to the 2011 Census.
East Hyde
Hamlet
East Hyde is a village in the civil parish of Hyde, in the Central Bedfordshire district, in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England. East Hyde lies on the border with Hertfordshire.
Batford
Suburb
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Batford is a village in Hertfordshire, England, located on the River Lea on the outskirts of Harpenden. Batford Springs is a local nature reserve alongside the river and the village green, which has a small play area for children.
Harpenden
- Category: locality
- Location: City and District of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.8145° or 51° 48′ 52″ northLongitude
-0.3549° or 0° 21′ 18″ westPopulation
29,400Elevation
351 feet (107 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HPDOpen location code
9C3XRJ7W+R2OpenStreetMap ID
node 26716839OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Harpenden” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հարպենդեն”
- Asturian: “Harpenden”
- Basque: “Harpenden”
- Bengali: “হার্পেনডেন”
- Catalan: “Harpenden”
- Cebuano: “Harpenden”
- Chinese: “哈彭登”
- Chinese: “哈本登”
- Czech: “Harpenden”
- Dutch: “Harpenden”
- French: “Harpenden”
- German: “Harpenden”
- Gujarati: “હાર્પનડેન”
- Hebrew: “הרפנדן”
- Irish: “Harpenden”
- Italian: “Harpenden”
- Japanese: “ハープンデン”
- Japanese: “ハーペンデン”
- Kannada: “ಹಾರ್ಪೆಂಡೆನ್”
- Korean: “하펜던”
- Korean: “하펜덴”
- Ladin: “Harpenden”
- Latvian: “Hārpendena”
- Lithuanian: “Harpendenas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Harpenden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harpenden”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Harpenden”
- Persian: “هارپندن”
- Polish: “Harpenden”
- Portuguese: “Harpenden”
- Romanian: “Harpenden”
- Russian: “Харпенден”
- Slovak: “Harpenden”
- Slovenian: “Harpenden”
- South Azerbaijani: “هارپندن”
- Spanish: “Harpenden”
- Swedish: “Harpenden”
- Tamil: “ஹர்பெண்டேன்”
- Telugu: “హర్పెండెన్”
- Turkish: “Harpenden”
- Urdu: “ہارپیندین”
- Volapük: “Harpenden”
- Welsh: “Harpenden”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Harpenden”. Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.