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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Highbury Ward

  

Highbury Ward Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Highbury Ward

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You can visit Highbury Ward places with Walkfo Highbury Ward to hear history at Highbury Ward’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Highbury Ward has 52 places to visit in our interactive Highbury Ward map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Highbury Ward, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Highbury Ward places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Highbury Ward & the surrounding areas.

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52 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Best Highbury Ward places to visit

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Highbury Ward has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Highbury Ward’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Highbury Ward’s information audio spots:

Letchworth Cemetery Cemetery was the first burial ground for Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire. It is now closed for new burials but can be used if graves are being reopened and for prepurchased plots. Cremated remains are also still being interred at the cemetery.

Church of St Katharine, Ickleford The Church of St Katharine of Alexandria is the Church of England parish church for Ickleford in Hertfordshire. It is a Grade I listed building and comes under the Diocese of St Albans.

Church of St Mary, Letchworth The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the Church of England parish church of Letchworth in Hertfordshire. A church appears to have been on the site since before the Norman Conquest. The current church was built in the late 12th century and is Grade II listed.

River Purwell The River Purwell is a chalk stream in Hertfordshire. Its source is springs which rise out of the chalk bedrock at St Ippolyts, forming Ippollitts Brook. The entire course of the stream is near Hitchin.

Hitchin Priory Hitchin Priory in Hitchin in Hertfordshire is today a hotel built in about 1700 on the site of a Carmelite friary founded in 1317. Parts of the original priory are incorporated in the existing building, which has been a Grade I listed building since 1951.

Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery The Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery was a local history museum in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. It told the story of the town’s social history and of the rural industries that contributed to its prosperity.

Hitchin Cemetery Hitchin Cemetery, also known as St John’s Road Cemetery, is the main burial ground for the town of Hitchin. It has been owned and managed by North Hertfordshire District Council since 1974. The cemetery is located on Hitchin Hill, with Standhill Road running along the north-western boundary.

St Mary’s Church, Hitchin St Mary’s Church is a Church of England parish church in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. It dates from the 14th and 15th centuries, with its tower dating from around 1190. The church has been Grade I listed since 1951. During the laying of a new floor in 1911, foundations of a more ancient Saxon church building were found.

Butts Close Butts Close is an 11-acre (45,000 m) park in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. The name refers to the archery butts that used to be on it during the Late medieval and Tudor times. During those years it was much larger but in the last centuries it was built on it.

Church of All Saints, Willian The Church of All Saints is the Anglican parish church for Willian in Hertfordshire. The benefice is united with St Paul’s church in nearby Letchworth, although each church has its own parish. The church has been a Grade II* listed building since 1954.

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