Hitchin

Hitchin is a town with 33,350 inhabitants in 2011 35 mi miles north of in the county of . Hitchin is an old market town first mentioned 1,000 years ago.
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  • Type: Town with 34,300 residents
  • Description: market town in the North Hertfordshire district in Hertfordshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Hitchin Urban” and “Hitchin, England”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: Hitchin railway station and Hitchin Town Hall.

Railway station
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serves the market town of Hitchin in .

Town hall
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is a municipal structure in Brand Street, Hitchin, , England.

Museum
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The is an educational museum…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pirton and Walsworth.

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is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of , England.

Suburb
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is a part of the town of Hitchin in , England.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the North…

Hitchin

Latitude
51.9487° or 51° 56′ 55″ north
Longitude
-0.2779° or 0° 16′ 41″ west
Population
34,300
Elevation
253 feet (77 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB HCN
Open location code
9C3XWPXC+FR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21546264
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2646826
Wiki­data ID
Q19798
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Hitchin” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هيتشن”
  • Armenian: “Հիթչին”
  • Basque: “Hitchin”
  • Belarusian: “Гітчын”
  • Bulgarian: “Хитчин”
  • Catalan: “Hitchin”
  • Cebuano: “Hitchin”
  • Chinese: “希欽”
  • Chinese: “希钦”
  • Czech: “Hitchin”
  • Dutch: “Hitchin”
  • Finnish: “Hitchin”
  • French: “Hitchin”
  • German: “Hitchin”
  • Hebrew: “היצ’ין”
  • Hungarian: “Hitchin”
  • Irish: “Hitchin”
  • Italian: “Hitchin”
  • Japanese: “ヒッチン”
  • Korean: “히친”
  • Ladin: “Hitchin”
  • Latvian: “Hičina”
  • Lithuanian: “Hičinas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hitchin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hitchin”
  • Norwegian: “Hitchin”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hitchin”
  • Persian: “هیتچین”
  • Polish: “Hitchin”
  • Portuguese: “Hitchin”
  • Romanian: “Hitchin”
  • Russian: “Хитчин”
  • Slovak: “Hitchin”
  • Slovenian: “Hitchin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هیتچین”
  • Spanish: “Hitchin”
  • Swedish: “Hitchin”
  • Turkish: “Hitchin”
  • Urdu: “ہیچ ان”
  • Volapük: “Hitchin”
  • Welsh: “Hitchin”
  • Yiddish: “היטשין”
  • “Hitchin”

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Places to explore: The Dell and West Hitchin.

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