Directory
Entertainment
Venues, days out and family attractions.
The Snow Centre
St Albans Hill, Hemel Hempstead
Indoor real-snow slope at St Albans Hill: lessons, sessions, birthday chaos.
Little Hay Golf Complex
Box Lane, Hemel Hempstead
Public golf, driving range and a promised padel-and-adventure-golf upgrade on Box Lane.
Gadebridge Park
Leighton Buzzard Road, Hemel Hempstead
Hemel’s principal park: river, play, events, and now a dog wash.
Jellicoe Water Gardens
Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead
Grade II listed 1962 landscape by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, restored in 2017.
Berkhamsted Castle
White Hill, Berkhamsted
Norman motte-and-bailey beside the station: free, ruined, endlessly climbable.
Ashridge Estate
Monument Drive, near Aldbury
5,000 acres of National Trust Chiltern woodland, monument and deer.
Natural History Museum at Tring
Akeman Street, Tring
Walter Rothschild’s private museum: stuffed mammals, birds, and a free-entry wonder.
Tring Reservoirs
Startops End, Marsworth / Tring
Four summit reservoirs: Wilstone, Startops, Marsworth, Tringford: for birds and a long loop.
Aldbury village and pond
The Green, Aldbury
Stocks, pond, timber frames: the Chiltern village everyone already photographed.
Pendley Manor
Cow Lane, Tring
Victorian manor and grounds on the edge of Tring: weddings, theatre, hotel.
Ashridge House
Ashridge, Little Gaddesden
Grade I house in the estate: conferences, weddings, the Bakehouse cafe in the courtyard.
The Rex Cinema
High Street / Three Close Lane area, Berkhamsted
Art Deco cinema on the High Street: still a proper single-screen night out.
Boxmoor Trust lands
Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead
Grazing, river and common between Hemel and the bypass: a softer New Town edge.
St Mary’s Church, Hemel Old Town
High Street, Hemel Hempstead
The parish church on the hill: Hemel’s oldest public building still in daily use.
XC Extreme
Bovingdon / Hemel west
High ropes and outdoor activity on the Bovingdon side of Hemel.