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 include Hitchin railway station and Hitchin Town Hall.

Railway station
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serves the market town of Hitchin in . It is located approximately 1 mile north east of the town centre and 31 miles 74 chains north of on the East Coast Main Line.

Town hall
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is a municipal structure in Brand Street, Hitchin, , England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Hitchin Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.

Museum
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The is an educational museum based in original Edwardian and Victorian school buildings in Hitchin in , . The museum complex is made up of listed school buildings housing infants, girls and boys schools with houses for Master and Mistress.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pirton and Walsworth.

Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of , England. It lies 3 miles north-west of the town of Hitchin, and adjoins the border with . At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,452.

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

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of , England. It lies immediately north of the town of Hitchin, from which it is separated by the River Oughton.

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)
United Nations Location Code
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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Satellite Map

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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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