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You can visit Hitchin Oughton places with Walkfo Hitchin Oughton to hear history at Hitchin Oughton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Hitchin Oughton has 42 places to visit in our interactive Hitchin Oughton 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 Hitchin Oughton, 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 Hitchin Oughton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Hitchin Oughton & the surrounding areas.

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Best Hitchin Oughton places to visit

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Hitchin Oughton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Hitchin Oughton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Hitchin Oughton’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.

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.

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