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.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Harpenden railway station and Rothamsted Park.
Harpenden railway station
Railway station
Photo: Hassocks5489, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Redbourn and East Hyde.
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″ north
Longitude
-0.3549° or 0° 21′ 18″ west
Population
29,400
Elevation
351 feet (107 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB HPD
Open location code
9C3XRJ7W+R2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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: “ہارپینڈن”
- Volapük: “Harpenden”
- Welsh: “Harpenden”
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