Hitchin
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hitchin railway station and Hitchin Town Hall.
Hitchin railway station
Railway station
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Hitchin railway station serves the market town of Hitchin in Hertfordshire. It is located approximately 1 mile north east of the town centre and 31 miles 74 chains north of London King's Cross on the East Coast Main Line.
Hitchin Town Hall
Town hall
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Hitchin Town Hall is a municipal structure in Brand Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Hitchin Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.
North Hertfordshire Museum
Museum
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North Hertfordshire Museum is a museum that displays collections relating to local history and heritage. It is located adjacent to the refurbished Hitchin Town Hall on Brand Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pirton and Walsworth.
Pirton
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Pirton is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies 3 miles north-west of the town of Hitchin, and adjoins the border with Bedfordshire. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,452.
Walsworth
Suburb
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Walsworth is a part of the town of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. It was originally a village about a mile north east of the town, and later became incorporated into it, although it is still referred to as a village by some locals.
Ickleford
Village
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Ickleford is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies immediately north of the town of Hitchin, from which it is separated by the River Oughton.
Hitchin
- Categories: market town, unparished area, and locality
- Location: North Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.9487° or 51° 56′ 55″ northLongitude
-0.2779° or 0° 16′ 41″ westPopulation
34,300Elevation
253 feet (77 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HCNOpen location code
9C3XWPXC+FROpenStreetMap ID
node 21546264OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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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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 “Hitchin”. Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.