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Dist:0.6km north<br/>The Old Barnado's School for boys, a lot of whom went into the printing profession.It is now being marketed as luxury homes and flats.
©Melvyn Cousins
Dist:0.6km north<br/>
©Melvyn Cousins
Dist:0.7km east<br/>
©Melvyn Cousins
Dist:1.1km south<br/>Not the place where Hertingfordbury's geriatric criminal fraternity foregather, but the now disused part dead end section of Thieves Lane. It lost its through traffic when the A414 roundabout was built.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.2km east<br/>The Hertfordshire Way passes here through one of the arches of the set of bridges and viaducts that take the railway between Hertford and Stevenage over the valley of the River Beane. The old wheels on the right operate a sluice on an offtake from the River Beane that is part of the water supply infrastructure for Hertford.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.2km west<br/>Until very recently this used to be rolling parkland with many old oaks. It is now owned by Lafarge Aggregates, who have their SE England HQ here. It seems they have been unable to resist the sand and gravel on their doorstep. This little spinney is the last island of beauty amid the ravaged landscape.
©Steve Bayley
Dist:1.3km east<br/>The text carved into the stone lintel above the main door states that the water works building was erected in Molewood Road in 1888 for the Borough of Hertford. It is now operated by Three Valleys Water.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.3km east<br/>Looking upstream from the Beane Road bridge.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.3km southeast<br/>Trains from this station are currently operated by First Capital Connect, and there is a normal weekday service at twenty minute intervals to Moorgate. However the journey time is just under fifty minutes and there are seventeen intermediate stops.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.3km southeast<br/>
©Stephen Craven
Dist:1.3km northeast<br/>
©Melvyn Cousins
Dist:1.3km south<br/>
©Steve Bayley
Dist:1.4km southeast<br/>Viewed looking in the direction of Stevenage with a train for Moorgate about to depart, the station and railway line are on the Hertford Loop Line and were built as recently as 1924. This was not the first railway in this location though as the route of the former Hatfield to Hertford railway, which was built in 1858, used to pass through what is now the densely tree covered area to the right before swinging eastwards over the River Beane to the original Hertford North station about a kilometre away. This line closed in 1951 and the track was lifted in 1967.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:1.4km northeast<br/>
©John Salmon
Dist:1.4km southwest<br/>The River Mimram Valley. The osier beds can be seen by the river.
©Melvyn Cousins

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