Gustard Wood

Places of Interest

Wheathampstead railway station

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Wheathampstead railway station was a railway station serving Wheathampstead on the Great Northern Railway branch line to Dunstable. While little of it remains now, east of Wheathampstead is the Ayot Greenway which follows what was the line towards Welwyn Garden City.

Shaw’s Corner

Photo: PaulSkin, CC BY 2.0.

Shaw's Corner was the primary residence of the renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw; it is now a National Trust property open to the public as a writer's house museum.

Devil’s Dyke

Forest

Photo: Legis, Public domain.

Devil's Dyke is the remains of a prehistoric defensive ditch which lies at the east side of the village of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England. It is protected as a Scheduled Monument.

Places in the Area

Ayot St Lawrence

Photo: Jason Ballard, CC BY 2.0.

Ayot St Lawrence is a small village in Hertfordshire. It lies between Harpenden and Welwyn Garden City. It is mainly known as the home of George Bernard Shaw from 1906 until his death in 1950.

Harpenden

Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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.

Wheathampstead

Village

Photo: Legis, Public domain.

Wheathampstead is a large village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, north of St Albans. Included within the parish is the small hamlet of Amwell.

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