How Wood is a Village in the county of Hertfordshire.

How Wood postcode: AL2 2QY

Retail in How Wood

There are great places to visit near How Wood including some great cities, villages, lakes, parks, hiking areas, towns, geological features, woodlands, nature reserves, waterfalls, historic buildings, gardens, country parks, ruins and shopping centres.

Cities to visit near How Wood include Letchworth, and St Albans.

The area around How Wood features a number of interesting villages including Norton, Redbourn, Anstey, Therfield, Chorleywood, and Essendon.

The area around How Wood features a number of interesting lakes including Norton Pond, Radwell Mill Lake, and Hatfield Forest Lake.

There are a several good parks in the How Wood area like Broadway Gardens, and Chorleywood Common.

Letchworth’s Greenway, and Oughtonhead Common Nature Reserve are great places to visit near How Wood if you like hiking areas.

Don't miss Hitchin, Bishop's Stortford, Royston, Welwyn Garden City, Baldock, Sawbridgeworth, and Hatfield's towns if visiting the area around How Wood.

Don't miss Hill End Chalk Pit's geological features if visiting the area around How Wood.

Don't miss Hitchwood, and Hatfield Forest's woodlands if visiting the area around How Wood.

There are a several good nature reserves in the How Wood area like Oughtonhead Common Nature Reserve, Stotfold Watermill and Nature Reserve, and Chorleywood Common.

How Wood is near some unmissable waterfalls like Oughtonhead Waterfall,

Stotfold Watermill and Nature Reserve, Church of Saint Mary at Hitchin, Wimpole Hall, Wimpole Ruins, and Hatfield House are some of How Wood best historic buildings to visit near How Wood.

Gardens to visit near How Wood include Hitchin Lavender.

Don't miss Hatfield Forest, Wimpole Estate, Stanborough Park, and Pishiobury Park's country parks if visiting the area around How Wood.

Wimpole Ruins is one of How Wood's best, nearby ruins to visit in How Wood.

Places near How Wood feature a number of interesting shopping centres including atria Watford.

How Wood History

There are some historic monuments around How Wood:

• Grim's Ditch: section extending 1500yds (1370m) NE from Oxhey Lane
• Batch Wood, moated manorial site
• 18th century obelisk commemorating Cassivellaunus, at Brockley Hill, Stanmore
• The Manor of the More
• Rothamsted Romano-British cemetery
• Iron Age territorial boundary known as Beech Bottom Dyke
• High Street Green Roman barrow
• Devils Ditch
• Colney Chapel moated site
• Brockley Hill Romano-British pottery and settlement
• Replica of the Mohne Dam, in the grounds of the Building Research Establishment, Garston
• The Clock Tower
• Bacon's House, Gorhambury
• Verulamium, site of
• The Aubreys camp
• The Benedictine Priory of St Mary (Sopwell Priory) and the post-medieval mansions known as Sopwell House or Lee Hall
• Verulamium, The Fosse
• Wheathampstead earthwork incorporating Devils Dyke and the Slad
• Verulamium, Prae Wood settlement
• Romano-Celtic temple complex at Wood Lane End, 280m SW of Woodwells Farm
• Verulamium, Bacons Mount
• Moated site at Bushey Hall Farm
• Linear earthworks in Pear Wood, W of Watling Street
• Oxhey Hall moated site
• St Albans Abbey, site of conventual buildings
• Penne's Place moated site, Aldenham
• Little London moated site and surrounding earthwork enclosures, Kings Langley
• Roman villa on Moor Park golf course
• St Albans Abbey Gatehouse
• The Pondyards, Gorhambury
• Roman remains S of Hansteads House, Netherwyld Farm
• Verulamium, part of wall and ditch of Roman city