East of England
Hertfordshire
City & District of St. Albans

St Albans

St Albans is an cathedral city to the north of , in the county of . Its rich Roman and Medieval history means it is much more worth a visit than the typical commuter suburb.
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  • Type: City with 57,800 residents
  • Description: city and unparished area in southern Hertfordshire, England
  • Also known as: “St. Albans”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Verulamium and St Albans Cathedral.

Archaeological site
Photo: Rob Hinkley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was a town in Roman Britain. It was sited southwest of the modern city of St Albans in , . The major ancient Roman route Watling Street passed through the city, but was realigned in medieval times to bring trade to St Albans.

Church
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, officially the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, also known as "the Abbey", is a Church of England cathedral in St Albans, England.

Park
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is a Victorian park used for sports and leisure in St Albans, England. Opened in mid-1894, it is still largely in its original form and has a rich variety of trees and planting. It is close to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include London Colney and Marshalswick.

Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village and civil parish in south central . It is a satellite village of St Albans, where some villagers travel to work and shop. As of 2011 it had a population of 9,500 residents.

Suburb
is a suburb of St Albans in , England, located around 1.5 miles northeast of the city centre. The area was developed from the 1920s onwards.

Village
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is a small village in , England. It is on the southern outskirts of St Albans, around 2 miles south of the city centre, and is separated from the rest of the city's contiguous built-up area by a buffer to the north.

St Albans

Latitude
51.7531° or 51° 45′ 11″ north
Longitude
-0.338° or 0° 20′ 17″ west
Population
57,800
Elevation
322 feet (98 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB TBL
Open location code
9C3XQM36+6R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25342557
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2638867
Wiki­data ID
Q6226
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“St Albans” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سانت ألبانز”
  • Armenian: “Սենթ Օլբանս”
  • Asturian: “St Albans”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sant Albans”
  • Basque: “St Albans”
  • Belarusian: “Сент-Олбанс”
  • Belarusian: “Сэнт-Олбанз”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট আলব্ন্স”
  • Breton: “St Albans”
  • Bulgarian: “Сейнт Олбанс”
  • Catalan: “St Albans”
  • Catalan: “St. Albans”
  • Cebuano: “St Albans”
  • Chinese: “圣奥尔本斯”
  • Chinese: “聖奧爾本斯”
  • Czech: “St Albans”
  • Danish: “St Albans”
  • Dimli (individual language): “St Albans”
  • Dutch: “St Albans”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانت البانز”
  • Esperanto: “St Albans”
  • Finnish: “St Albans”
  • French: “St Albans”
  • Galician: “St Albans”
  • German: “St Albans”
  • German: “St. Albans”
  • Greek: “Σεντ Άλμπανς”
  • Greek: “Σεντ Όλμπανς”
  • Gujarati: “સેન્ટ આલબન્સ”
  • Gujarati: “સેન્ટ આલ્બન્સ”
  • Hebrew: “סנט אולבנס”
  • Hebrew: “סנט אלבנס”
  • Hindi: “सेंट अल्बंस”
  • Hungarian: “St Albans”
  • Hungarian: “St. Albans”
  • Icelandic: “St Albans”
  • Indonesian: “Santa Albans”
  • Indonesian: “St Albans”
  • Indonesian: “St. Albans”
  • Irish: “St Albans”
  • Italian: “St Albans”
  • Japanese: “セント・オールバンズ”
  • Kannada: “ಸೇಂಟ್ ಅಲ್ಬನ್ಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸೇಂಟ್ ಅಲ್ಬೇನ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “세인트올번스”
  • Kurdish: “Saint Albans”
  • Ladin: “St Albans”
  • Latin: “Fanum Sancti Albani”
  • Latin: “Villa Sancti Albani”
  • Latvian: “Sentalbana”
  • Latvian: “Sentolbansa”
  • Lithuanian: “Sent Albanas”
  • Luxembourgish: “St. Albans”
  • Macedonian: “Сент Олбанс”
  • Malagasy: “St Albans”
  • Malay: “St Albans”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯦꯟꯠ ꯑꯜꯕꯥꯟꯁ”
  • Marathi: “सेंट अल्बान्स”
  • Moksha: “Сэнт Олбанс”
  • Northern Frisian: “St Albans”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St. Albans”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St. Albans”
  • Norwegian: “St. Albans”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “St Albans”
  • Persian: “سنت آلبنز”
  • Polish: “St Albans”
  • Portuguese: “St Albans”
  • Romanian: “St Albans”
  • Russian: “Сент-Олбанс (Англия)”
  • Russian: “Сент-Олбанс”
  • Russian: “Сент-Элбанс”
  • Scots: “St Albans”
  • Serbian: “Сент Олбанс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saint Albans”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “St Albans”
  • Sinhala: “සෙන්ට් ඇල්බන්ස්”
  • Slovak: “St Albans”
  • Slovenian: “St Albans”
  • Slovenian: “St. Albans”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سنت آلبنز”
  • Spanish: “St Albans”
  • Spanish: “St. Albans”
  • Swedish: “St Albans”
  • Tagalog: “St Albans”
  • Tamil: “செயின்ட் ஆல்பெண்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்ட ஆல்பன்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Сент-Олбанс”
  • Telugu: “సెయింట్ అల్బన్స్”
  • Thai: “เซนต์อัลบัน”
  • Turkish: “St Albans”
  • Ukrainian: “Сент-Олбанс”
  • Urdu: “سٹ البانس”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ البینز”
  • Vietnamese: “St Albans”
  • Volapük: “St Albans”
  • Welsh: “St Albans”

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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 “St Albans”. Photo: Przsak, CC BY-SA 3.0.