Leavesden is a Village in the county of Hertfordshire.

Leavesden postcode: WD25 7GN

Retail in Leavesden

There are great places to visit near Leavesden 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.

The area around Leavesden features a number of interesting cities including Letchworth, and St Albans.

Villages to visit near Leavesden include Norton, Redbourn, Anstey, Therfield, Chorleywood, and Essendon.

Leavesden has some unmissable lakes nearby like Norton Pond, Radwell Mill Lake, and Hatfield Forest Lake.

There are a number of parks near Leavesden including Broadway Gardens, and Chorleywood Common.

There are a several good hiking areas in the Leavesden area like Letchworth’s Greenway, and Oughtonhead Common Nature Reserve.

Hitchin, Bishop's Stortford, Royston, Welwyn Garden City, Baldock, Sawbridgeworth, and Hatfield are great places to visit near Leavesden if you like towns.

Hill End Chalk Pit is one of Leavesden's best, nearby geological features to visit in Leavesden.

There are a several good woodlands in the Leavesden area like Hitchwood, and Hatfield Forest.

Oughtonhead Common Nature Reserve, Stotfold Watermill and Nature Reserve, and Chorleywood Common are some of Leavesden best nature reserves to visit near Leavesden.

There are a number of waterfalls near to Leavesden including Oughtonhead Waterfall.

Leavesden's best nearby historic buildings can be found at Stotfold Watermill and Nature Reserve, Church of Saint Mary at Hitchin, Wimpole Hall, Wimpole Ruins, and Hatfield House.

Places near Leavesden feature a number of interesting gardens including Hitchin Lavender.

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

Places near Leavesden feature a number of interesting ruins including Wimpole Ruins.

The area close to Leavesden boasts some of the best shopping centres including atria Watford.

Leavesden History

There are some historic monuments around Leavesden:

• The Manor of the More
• Verulamium, Prae Wood settlement
• High Street Green Roman barrow
• Roman villa on Moor Park golf course
• St Albans Abbey Gatehouse
• St Albans Abbey, site of conventual buildings
• Pinner Hill ice house, 70m north east of Pinner Hill Golf Clubhouse
• Roman remains S of Hansteads House, Netherwyld Farm
• Penne's Place moated site, Aldenham
• Boxmoor House Roman villa
• Moated site at Bushey Hall Farm
• The Aubreys camp
• Verulamium, part of wall and ditch of Roman city
• The Clock Tower
• Grim's Ditch: section extending 1500yds (1370m) NE from Oxhey Lane
• 18th century obelisk commemorating Cassivellaunus, at Brockley Hill, Stanmore
• Headstone Manor moated site
• Pinner deer park, Pinner Park Farm
• Oxhey Hall moated site
• Grim's Ditch: four linear sections between Uxbridge Road and Oxhey Lane
• Devils Ditch
• Replica of the Mohne Dam, in the grounds of the Building Research Establishment, Garston
• Gadebridge Roman villa
• Little London moated site and surrounding earthwork enclosures, Kings Langley
• Verulamium, site of
• The Charter Tower, Hemel Hempstead
• Dominican Priory (site of) (excluding inhabited parts)
• The Benedictine Priory of St Mary (Sopwell Priory) and the post-medieval mansions known as Sopwell House or Lee Hall
• Bacon's House, Gorhambury
• Iron Age territorial boundary known as Beech Bottom Dyke
• Royal Palace (site of)
• Verulamium, The Fosse
• The Pondyards, Gorhambury
• One of two barrows on Chipperfield Common
• Grim's Ditch: section N of Blythwood House
• Verulamium, Bacons Mount
• Romano-Celtic temple complex at Wood Lane End, 280m SW of Woodwells Farm
• One of two barrows on Chipperfield Common
• Batch Wood, moated manorial site