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Alban Way is a cycle and footpath which runs along the route of the old Hatfield to St Albans railway. The playground is on the corner of Alban Way and Ellenbrook Lane. The houses in the background are in Wilkins Green Lane.
©Barry Lawson
Alban Way is a cycle and footpath which runs along the route of the old Hatfield to St Albans railway. The farm borders the route on the north side.
©Barry Lawson
Dist:0.1km<br/>Located on Wilkins Green Lane. On an 1883 map of the area it was called Little Nast Hyde Farm.
©Rob Taylor
Dist:0.2km<br/>Wilkins Green Lane. It is an early 17th Century brick mansion. A Grade II listed building. Even the wall surrounding the property is Grade II listed!
©Rob Taylor
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Alban Way, or the Smallford Trail as it is described on several maps, follows the trackbed of the former Hatfield and St Albans Railway. The railway was completed in 1865 and was taken over by the Great Northern Railway in 1883. It was a very early casualty of British Railways' days being closed to passenger traffic in 1951. Freight services lingered on until 1964. The trackbed also now forms a section of National Cycle Network Route 61.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>Smallford Trail part of Alban Way by the remains of Nast Hyde Halt
©Shaun Ferguson
Dist:0.6km<br/>The Hatfield & St Albans Railway opened their line through here, linking the two towns, in 1865. The railway was subsequently absorbed into the Great Northern Railway in 1883, but Nast Hyde Halt was not built until 1910. Passenger services on the railway were an early casualty of the pre-Beeching era of British Railways, closing just 3 years into Nationalization in 1951, with the halt obviously closing at the same time. Freight traffic on the line lingered into the 1960s, and the track was still in use in 1967 as evidenced by Nick Catford's photograph from a similar viewpoint here http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/n/nast_hyde_halt/index1.shtml Today the route of the railway forms the Alban Way, or the Smallford Trail, and a section of National Cycle Network Route 61.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>A house in Ellenbrook Lane
©Rick Hole
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.6km<br/>Taken almost 5 years to the day after Duncan's [[432281]] The Plough shows little change. It is one of a select group of public houses that warrant their own PH abbreviation on the Ordnance Survey's 1:50,000 scale mapping.
©Nigel Cox
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.6km<br/>Sleapshyde Methodist Church was originally a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built around 1840. It is tucked away down a no through road and opposite The Plough public house.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>This is the point at which the former Hatfield & St Albans Railway crossed Ellenbrook Lane. Nast Hyde Halt was to the left. The railway was in use until the 1960s.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>This pub features in a 1967 episode of the ITC show The Champions (episode was The Night People)
©Duncan Lilly
Dist:0.7km<br/>Up until the 1930s and the building of the North Orbital Road nearby, Sleapshyde was just an isolated rural hamlet with a farm, a pub, a chapel, and a few cottages. Since then it has expanded considerably. This green is the historical centre of the hamlet. The grey metal post in the centre carries a nameboard with "Sleap's Hyde", while old Ordnance Survey maps from the 1870s up to the 1930s describe the hamlet as Sleepshyde.
©Nigel Cox

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