Brocket Hall, Ayot St Lawrence

Name: Brocket Hall
Address: Ayot St Lawrence, United Kingdom

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Golf, Vernacular architecture

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Brocket Hall is a neo-classical country house set in a large park at the western side of the urban area of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England. The estate is equipped with two golf courses and seven smaller listed buildings, apart from the main house. The freehold on the estate is held by the 3rd Baron Brocket. The house is Grade I-listed. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 51°48'4"N, 0°14'46"W

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Brocket Hall – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Howard Centre, Shaw's Corner, Stanborough Park, Welwyn Roman Baths.

1.8 miE
Shopping, Shopping centre
Howard Centre, Welwyn Garden City
46 min walk • The Howard Centre is a shopping centre in Welwyn Garden City. It is named after Sir Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement.
2.6 miN
Historical place, Museum, History museum
Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence
66 min walk • 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.
1.5 miSE
Hiking trail, Park, Outdoor activities
Stanborough Park, Welwyn Garden City
40 min walk • Stanborough Park, also referred to as Stanborough Lakes is a 126-acre park in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. The park features two lakes, which were opened more recently in 1970.
2.4 miNE
Ruins, Museum, Archaeological museum
Welwyn Roman Baths, Ayot St Lawrence
63 min walk • The Welwyn Roman Baths are a Roman ruin preserved under the A1 just north of modern-day Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. The baths were a small part of the Dicket Mead villa, which was originally built in the 3rd century AD.
2.2 miW
Church, Romanesque architecture
St Helen's Church, Wheathampstead
57 min walk • St Helen's Church is the oldest church in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England, although the date of its origins is unknown. The wooden Anglo-Saxon structure pre-dated the Norman conquest of England, but no records survive which establish the date upon which it was founded. It is a Grade I listed building.
1.3 miE
Concerts and shows, Theater
Barn Theatre, Welwyn Garden City
34 min walk • The Barn Theatre, located in Welwyn Garden City, England is a Grade II listed, 17th-century timber-framed barn converted to a community theatre in 1931. It is owned by The Barn Theatre Trust and used by a local amateur theatre company, The Barn Theatre Club. It has two performance spaces: a main auditorium and a studio.
1.7 miW
Archaeological site
Devil's Dyke, Wheathampstead
44 min walk • 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.
2.5 miSE
Nightlife
The Wrestlers, Hatfield
63 min walk • The Wrestlers is a public house on the Great North Road in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. The Grade II listed building has an eighteenth-century chequered red brick front, but it is based on a sixteenth-century core which preserves some of its timber framing.
1.4 miNE
Park
Sherrardspark Wood, Welwyn Garden City
36 min walk • Sherrardspark Wood is a 74.9 hectare biological site of Special Scientific Interest in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. The site was notified in 1986 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
2.5 miW
Park
Nomansland, Ayot St Lawrence
63 min walk • Nomansland Common is an area of common land in Hertfordshire, England to the south of Harpenden and the south-west of Wheathampstead Geologically, the common is part of the Harpenden Dry Valley. In the last ice age a glacier dammed the river south of Sandridge into St Albans Vale, creating a lake.
2.5 miNE
Bridge
Digswell Viaduct, Welwyn Garden City
64 min walk • The Digswell Viaduct, also called Welwyn Viaduct, is a railway viaduct that carries the East Coast Main Line over the River Mimram in the county of Hertfordshire in England.