| Coming local events | Local organisations | Places to visit | Notes and other information | Photographs |
| Some coming local events | |
|---|---|
12–20 May 2012 | Spring Art Exhibition – Paintings and other works of art by members of WBAS – Watford and Bushey Art Society – Harlequin Gallery, Harlequin Centre, Watford – Link |
14–19 May 2012, 7:30pm; also Saturday matinee 2:30pm | "Gypsy" – A highly regarded musical – Watford Operatic Society – Watford Palace Theatre, Clarendon Road, Watford – £13-£18 (stalls and circle), £10-£13 (upper circle) – Tel: 01923 225671 – Link |
19–20 May 2012 | Rickmansworth Festival – Rickmansworth Waterways Trust – Various events and stalls at Rickmansworth Aquadrome and the nearby canal – Link |
19 May 2012 | Plant Fair – Plants, books, cakes etc for sale for charity – St Michael & All Angels Church, Mildred Avenue, Watford – Link |
19 May 2012 | Concert – Karl Jenkins (The Armed Man: a mass for peace), Chris Williams (Gloria), Ralph Vaughan Williams (The Lark Ascending) – Chorleywood Choral Society and Berkhamsted Choral Society – Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford – £27.50, £20, £12.50 – Tel: 0845 075 3993 – Link |
19 May 2012 | Concert – Monteverdi (Vespers of 1610) – With vocal soloists from I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth (organ continuo), and the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble – St Albans Chamber Choir – St Albans Cathedral – £25, £18, £14; unreserved £8 (£1 child/student) – Tel: 07570 454744 – Link |
20 May 2012 | Sunday recital – Chinook Clarinet Quartet – St Luke's Church, Langley Way, Watford – Free (donations welcome) – A short recital (usually 30-45 minutes), followed by light refreshments – Tel: 01923 246161 – Link |
22 May 2012 | Lunchtime concert – Musicians from the Purcell School – St Mary's Church, Church Street / High Street, Watford – Free (donations welcome) – Link |
23–26 May 2012, 7:45pm; also Saturday matinee 2:45pm | "The Cemetery Club" – Comedy by Ivan Menchell – Belmont Theatre Company – Pump House Theatre and Arts Centre, Lower Board Road, Watford – £12; seniors/u16 £10 – Tel: 0845 521 3453 or 07917 324179 – Link |
24–26 May 2012 | "The Odd Couple" (female version): play by Neil Simon – Revised by the author for a female cast – The Centralian Players – Henderson Hall, High Street, Abbots Langley – Link |
26 May 2012 | Diamond Jubilee Concert – "Music for a Royal Occasion": well-known and much-loved music from coronations and other great royal events – St Lawrence Consort (formed for the occasion) – St Lawrence Church, High Street, Abbots Langley – Free entry – Followed by a "Jubilee Tea". Retiring collection in aid of the Friends of St Lawrence and the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust |
26 May 2012 | Concert – Norwegian music by Grieg, Nystedt, Kverno, Hovland, Gjeilo, Sandvold and Slogedal – Ullern Chamber Choir, Oslo – St Michael & All Angels Church, Mildred Avenue, Watford – Probably free – Link |
30 May 2012 | "Why we need to protect bees" – An illustrated talk by Steve Alton – St Thomas' United Reformed Church, Langley Road, Watford – Free – Tel: 01923 251157 |
1 June 2012 | Lunchtime music recital – Beechen Grove Baptist Church, corner of Clarendon Road and Beechen Grove, Watford – Link |
2 June 2012 | Jubilee Funday – Diamond jubilee celebration for all the family – Bushey Museum, Rudolph Road, Bushey – Entry free – Games, refreshments, etc |
3 June 2012 | Open garden – National Gardens Scheme – 47 Bournehall Avenue, Bushey – £3.50; children free – Medium-size garden on three levels – Link |
3 June 2012 | Children's Tea Party, and Afternoon Tea – Cream tea for adults; games, crafts and party food for children – St John's Church, Sutton Road, Watford – Free, and open to all – Followed at 4pm by 40-minute Proms of Praise led by Watford Brass Band and including Land of Hope and Glory, Jerusalem and the National Anthem – Tel: 01923 236174 (10am-6pm) – Link |
9 June 2012 | Abbots Langley Carnival – Link |
9–10 June 2012 | Open Garden Squares Weekend – Nearly 200 gardens in London, most of them not usually open to the public, may be visited for a single payment – Link |
10 June – 15 July 2012 | Abbots Langley Festival of the Arts – Link |
10 June 2012 | Open garden – British Red Cross – 47 Bournehall Avenue, Bushey – Adults: £3.50 – Medium-size garden on three levels – Link |
17 June 2012 | Sunday recital – Anna Beryl (cello), Alexis White (piano) – St Luke's Church, Langley Way, Watford – Free (donations welcome) – A short recital (usually 30-45 minutes), followed by light refreshments – Tel: 01923 246161 – Link |
20–23 June 2012, 7:45pm; also Saturday matinee 2:30pm | "The Music of Life" – Abbots Langley Gilbert & Sullivan Society – Henderson Hall, High Street, Abbots Langley – Part of Abbots Langley Festival of the Arts – Tel: 01923 676120 – Link |
20 June 2012 | Concert: a celebration of Cole Porter – With two soloists – Watford Philharmonic Society – Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford – £13.50 and £15; season ticket (4 concerts) from £40.50. Under-18s: £1, £6.75 and £7.50 – Tel: 07546 112 321 – Link |
22–24 June 2012 | Midsummer Music – International chamber music in the Chilterns - 4 concerts over 3 days – St Mary Magdalene Church, Latimer, Bucks. – Details of the concerts are on the website – Tel: 01494 783643 – Link |
22 June 2012 | Open garden – The Royal National Rose Society – National Gardens Scheme – Chiswell Green Lane, St Albans – £5; children free – Evening opening for NGS. Refreshments available – Link |
23 June 2012 | Revels on the Green – Various activities and entertainments starting with a procession of floats. Also many stalls – Croxley Green Society – An annual event of long standing – Link |
24 June 2012 | Open garden – British Red Cross – The Abbots House, 10 High Street, Abbots Langley – Adults: £4 – Large garden with various areas. Teas available in the tithe barn – Link |
24 June 2012 | Two open gardens – National Gardens Scheme – The Barn and Serge Hill, Serge Hill Lane, Bedmond – £7 for both gardens. Free for children – Two very diverse gardens. Home-made and cream teas at Serge Hill – Link |
30 June 2012 | Concert – Bernstein (Candide Overture), Copland (Appalachian Spring), Rachmaninov (Piano Concerto no. 3) – Watford Symphony Orchestra – Clarendon Muse, Watford School of Music, Rickmansworth Road, Watford – £10 – Tel: 01923 244196 – Link |
1 July 2012 | Open garden – British Red Cross – The Bushey Rose Garden, High Street, Bushey – Adults: £2 – Musical entertainment – Link |
1 July 2012 | Two open gardens – National Gardens Scheme – 20 and 30 St Stephens Avenue, St Albans – £3.50 for both gardens. Free for children – Two gardens of similar size, developed in different styles. Home-made teas at no. 20 – Link |
7 July 2012 | Concert – Joseph Haydn (Te Deum), Sir Edward Elgar (The Music Makers), John Ireland (Greater love hath no man), and other melodic works – Abbots Langley Singers – St Lawrence Church, High Street, Abbots Langley – £8, £7 (concessions), £2 (children) – Part of Abbots Langley Festival of the Arts – Link |
7 July 2012 | Concert – Johannes Brahms (Tragic Overture, op. 81), Robert Schumann (Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54), Johannes Brahms (Symphony no. 2 in D, op. 73) – Bushey Symphony Orchestra – Bushey Academy, London Road, Bushey – £17 (concessions £15); £14 (concessions £12); £1 schoolchildren – Tel: 01923 774229 – Link |
13–14 July 2012, Fri: 12-5pm; Sat: 10am-2pm | Book sale – Book Trade Benevolent Society – BTBS, The Retreat, corner of Gallows Hill & Abbots Road, Abbots Langley – Admission free – Thousands of new books donated by publishers, wholesalers and literary agents, all at bargain prices – Tel: 01923 263128 – Link |
15 July 2012 | Open garden – British Red Cross – Callipers Hall, Chipperfield – Adults: £4 – Large garden. Woodland areas with ponds, formal walled garden with water features. Music. Plants for sale – Link |
15 July 2012 | Sunday recital – Jonathan Rowe (piano) – St Luke's Church, Langley Way, Watford – Free (donations welcome) – A short recital (usually 30-45 minutes), followed by light refreshments – Tel: 01923 246161 – Link |
22 July 2012 | Summer Concert – Programme to be announced – Abbots Langley Orchestra – St Lawrence Church, High Street, Abbots Langley – Link |
29 July 2012 | Open garden – National Gardens Scheme – 45 Oakridge Avenue, Radlett – £3; children free – Garden in two halves, on three levels, with carefully chosen plants. Home-made cream teas – Link |
29 July 2012 | Open garden – National Gardens Scheme – Waterdell House, Little Green Lane, Croxley Green – £4; free for children – 1½-acre walled garden with mature and young trees, topiary holly hedge, herbaceous borders, shrubs, roses, grasses and pond garden – Tel: 01923 772775 – Link |
28–29 September 2012, Fri: 12-5pm; Sat: 10am-2pm | Book sale – Book Trade Benevolent Society – BTBS, The Retreat, corner of Gallows Hill & Abbots Road, Abbots Langley – Admission free – Thousands of new books donated by publishers, wholesalers and literary agents, all at bargain prices – Tel: 01923 263128 – Link |
7 October 2012 | Concert – Mozart, Bridge, Beethoven – Piatti String Quartet – Octagon Music Society – Clarendon Muse, Watford School of Music, Rickmansworth Road, Watford – £14. Free for all under 26 years of age – Tel: 01923 224092 – Link |
18 November 2012 | Concert – To include Saint-Saens, Rosauro, JS Bach, Goff Richards, Steve Reich, Eric Sammut – Toby Kearney (percussion), Harvey Davies (piano) – Octagon Music Society – Clarendon Muse, Watford School of Music, Rickmansworth Road, Watford – £14. Free for all under 26 years of age – Tel: 01923 224092 – Link |
30 November – 1 December 2012, Fri: 12-5pm; Sat: 10am-2pm | Book sale – Book Trade Benevolent Society – BTBS, The Retreat, corner of Gallows Hill & Abbots Road, Abbots Langley – Admission free – Thousands of new books donated by publishers, wholesalers and literary agents, all at bargain prices – Tel: 01923 263128 – Link |
27 January 2013 | Concert – Anthony Payne, Mozart, Schubert – Kandinsky Piano Trio – Octagon Music Society – Clarendon Muse, Watford School of Music, Rickmansworth Road, Watford – £14. Free for all under 26 years of age – Tel: 01923 224092 – Link |
3 March 2013 | Concert – Pamela Thorby (recorders), Elizabeth Kenny (archlute/theorbo/guitar) – Octagon Music Society – Clarendon Muse, Watford School of Music, Rickmansworth Road, Watford – £14. Free for all under 26 years of age – Tel: 01923 224092 – Link |
14 April 2013 | Concert – Beethoven, Webern, Kodaly, Mozart – Florin String Trio – Octagon Music Society – Clarendon Muse, Watford School of Music, Rickmansworth Road, Watford – £14. Free for all under 26 years of age – Tel: 01923 224092 – Link |
12 May 2013 | Concert – Bach, Lipatti, Schubert, Saint-Saëns, Hesketh, Ravel – Clare Hammond (piano) – Octagon Music Society – Clarendon Muse, Watford School of Music, Rickmansworth Road, Watford – £14. Free for all under 26 years of age – Tel: 01923 224092 – Link |
| Some local
organisations | ||
|---|---|---|
| Abbots Langley Gilbert & Sullivan Society | website | |
| Abbots Langley Local History Society | website | |
| Abbots Langley Orchestra | website | Concerts given in churches in Abbots Langley |
| Abbots langley Players | website | |
| Abbots Langley Singers | website | |
| Bovingdon Players | website | |
| Bushey & District Footpaths Association | website | Monthly walks of various lengths |
| Bushey and District U3A | website | Offers a wide variety of study groups for those no longer in full-time work |
| Bushey Festival | website | |
| Bushey Symphony Orchestra | website | |
| Carillon Chamber Choir | website | Based in St Albans, the choir has a large repertoire of sacred and secular, ancient and modern music |
| Cassio Operatic Society | website | |
| The Centralian Players | website | Watford-based drama group established in 1933 |
| The Chiltern Choir | website | |
| Chipperfield Choral Society | website | |
| Chorleywood Choral Society | website | |
| Folk at the Pump House | website | Folk and roots music every Friday night in the Colne River Room, 8-10.30pm |
| Folly's Farm Sanctuary for Donkeys | website | Open on Sundays, 2-4:30pm, May to September: c/o 2 Nursery Terrace, Potten End, Berkhamsted. Tel: 01442 871158 |
| Friends of Bushey Museum | website | See also, under Places to Visit, the entry for Bushey Museum and Art Gallery |
| Friends of Cassiobury Park | website | Opportunities for volunteers to help look after the park, and a talk once a year |
| Friends of Croxley Common Moor | website | Secretary: 01923 251157 |
| Friends of Croxley Great Barn | website | An organisation that seeks to protect Croxley Great Barn, which is more than 600 years old |
| Friends of Harebreaks Wood | website | Harebreaks Wood is the only area of ancient woodland in urban Watford to which there is public access |
| Friends of Oxhey Park | website | The website has historical information and photographs |
| Friends of Watersmeet | website | Also: Friends of Watersmeet Film Society. Watersmeet is in the centre of Rickmansworth |
| Friends of Watford Pond | website | |
| Hemel Hempstead Singers | website | |
| Hertfordshire Building Preservation Trust | website | |
| The International Organ Festival at St Albans | website | An annual festival, from the 9th to the 18th of July in 2009. Also monthly organ concerts from October to April |
| Kings Langley Community Choir | website | |
| Kings Langley Light Opera Company | website | |
| Kings Langley Local History & Museum Society | website | |
| Kings Langley Players | website | |
| Maple Lodge Conservation Society | website | The society looks after Maple Lodge, a private 40-acre nature reserve leased from Thames Water and normally open only to members |
| Mosaic Chamber Choir | website | A choir with a wide-ranging repertoire and with singers based in and around St Albans |
| National Council for the Conservation of Plants & Gardens: Herts & Beds Group | website | Events are listed on their website, along with other information |
| North Watford History Group | website | An organisation established in February 2008 and run by local residents |
| Octagon Music Society | website | |
| Oxhey Village Environment Group | website | Several outdoor events in the summer, and some talks in the winter |
| The Phoenix Concert Band | website | Based in Radlett, the band plays "a wide variety of concert band and film music to a high musical standard" |
| Pump House Theatre & Arts Centre | website | Various groups put on plays and musicals at this small theatre |
| The Purcell School | website | Free lunchtime concerts take place on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 12:20pm. Contact the Concerts Office (01923 331138) on the day to check that the concert is taking place |
| Radlett Choral Society | website | |
| Radlett Light Opera Society | website | |
| Radlett Music Club | website | |
| Revue Variety Co. [Kings Langley] | website | |
| Rickmansworth Decorative and Fine Arts Society | website | Monthly lectures on Tuesday mornings at Sarratt Village Hall. Donation at the door (£5 suggested) |
| Rickmansworth Historical Society | website | The society has a programme of lectures |
| Rickmansworth Music Society | (No site found) | No website found |
| Rickmansworth Players | website | |
| Sarratt Festival of Music | website | Takes place over the last two weekends of September |
| Sarratt Pantomime & Light Alternative Theatre | website | |
| South West Herts Archaelogical and Historical Society | website | Programme of talks in the winter and outings by coach in the summer |
| South West Herts Astronomical Society | website | |
| South West Herts Narrowboat Project | (No site found) | Provides a 12-berth narrowboat for use by all community and youth groups: Dick's Folly, moored in Old Mill Road, Hunton Bridge |
| South West Herts U3A | website | Offers a wide variety of study groups for those no longer in full-time work |
| Spokes: South West Herts Cycling Group | website | Rides of various lengths. Occasional talks and social events |
| St Albans & District Model Engineering Society | website | Model engineering and related activities which include model locomotives, garden railways, traction engines, stationary engines, model boats, yachts, barges and general engineering and technical subjects |
| The St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society | website | |
| St Albans Bach Choir | website | |
| St Albans Chamber Choir | website | Founded in 1958, the choir has several concerts each year |
| St Albans Chamber Opera | website | An annual production at the Abbey Theatre in the spring is supplemented with studio performances, concerts and workshops in a variety of unusual and attractive venues |
| St Albans Choral Society | website | |
| St Albans Morris Men | website | Dances in many places in the area, accompanied by musicians on accordion, melodeon, three-hole pipe and tabor |
| St James' Music & Drama Society | website | Amateur drama group based at Falconer Hall, Bushey |
| Three Rivers Chamber Orchestra | website | Concerts in Rickmansworth |
| Three Rivers Music Society | website | Concerts in Rickmansworth |
| Tring Park School for the Performing Arts | website | Students perform drama and musical theatre shows, often at the adjoining Markova Theatre, some of which are open to the public |
| Watford & District Industrial History Society | website | Programme of talks in the winter and outings by coach in the summer |
| Watford & District U3A | website | Offers a wide variety of study groups for those no longer in full-time work |
| Watford & West Herts Scottish Society | website | Various social activities and weekly Scottish country dance classes |
| Watford and Bushey Art Society | website | Programme of talks. Occasional exhibitions of members' work |
| Watford Band | website | One of Hertfordshire's oldest brass bands, started in 1894 |
| Watford Concerts | website | Alternatively http://www.ecp-music.com/watford though the page there carries the other site address |
| Watford Dance Festival | Secretary: 01727 853415 | An annual event on the first three weekends in May, with competitions for various age groups, for character, classical, modern, national and tap dancing |
| Watford Festival of Music, Speech and Drama | website | A wide range of competitions each spring for various age groups |
| Watford Film Society | website | Monthly films at Watford Palace Theatre |
| Watford Filmhouse | website | Films shown monthly. Started officially on 6 February 2010. Tickets are cheaper for members |
| Watford Folk Dance Group | (No site found) | English country dancing on Monday evenings. Tel: 01923 233371 or 672341 |
| Watford Musical Heritage | website | An organisation established to help create a future for one of the finest halls for musical performance, Watford Colosseum |
| Watford Novgorod Friendship Society | website | |
| Watford Operatic Society | website | |
| Watford Palace Theatre | website | |
| Watford Park U3A | website | Offers a wide variety of study groups for those no longer in full-time work |
| Watford Philharmonic Society | website | |
| Watford Plectra Orchestra | website | A small amateur club of musicians of varying abilities playing mainly fretted stringed instruments such as mandolin, mandola and guitar. See also www.banjomandolinguitar.org/orchestras.htm |
| Watford Symphony Orchestra | website | |
| West Watford History Group | website |
| Some places to
visit, over a wider area around Watford | ||
|---|---|---|
| The 1940s House, Bushey | website | An exhibition at Lincolnsfields Children's Centre of a typical interior for a house in the 1940s. Open on the last Sunday of every month, 10.30am - 4pm. There is a charge for entry |
| Aberford Park, Borehamwood | website | In the centre of Borehamwood by Brook Road, the park has lakes, fountains and play and sport activities |
| Aldenham Country Park, Elstree | website | Woodland, meadows and reservoir covering 175 acres. Sailing, fishing. Farm with rare breeds of cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, shire horses, poultry, rabbits. Free entrance for pedestrians and cyclists. Car park. Dagger Lane, Elstree |
| Amersham Fair Organ Museum, Amersham | website | Formerly the Teddy Reed Collection, at Unit 1, 28 Plantation Road, Amersham. Open only a few days in the year, including 8 Feb and 8 March 2009, 11am-5pm - tel: 01494 433948 or 07763 774279 |
| Amersham Museum, Amersham | website | Open mostly from May to September on Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday afternoons, 2-4.30pm - tel: 01494 723700 |
| The Aquadrome, Rickmansworth | website | A nature reserve with three lakes, grassland and woodland covering 100 acres. Fishing, sailing, watersports. Frogmoor Lane, off Harefield Road, Rickmansworth - tel: 01923 776611 |
| Ashridge Estate, between Aylesbury and Hemel Hempstead | website | Over 5,000 acres of woodlands, commons and downland with waymarked trails - tel: 01442 755557 / 851227 |
| Attenborough's Fields, Oxhey | (No site found) | Pasture and trees, adjoining Merry Hill and Oxhey Green. Sometimes known as Haydon Hill pastures and pond. Owned by Hertfordshire County Council |
| Bekonscot Model Village, Beaconsfield | website | A model landscape with gardens, about six villages and a model railway - tel: 01494 672919 |
| Berkhamsted Castle (ruin), Berkhamsted | website | The remains of one of the oldest motte and bailey castles in Britain - tel: 01442 871737 |
| Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Bushey | website | A museum and art gallery run by volunteers, with special exhibitions from time to time |
| Butterfly World Project, Chiswell Green | website | Gardens designed to attract butterflies, and a tropical butterfly house. More features are being built. |
| Cassiobury Park, Watford | website | The largest public open space in Watford - over 190 acres |
| Chenies Manor House and Gardens, Chenies | website | Open on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Bank Holiday Mondays, 2-5pm, from April to October. Some special events including an annual plant fair - tel: 01494 762888 |
| Cheslyn Garden, Watford | website | Cheslyn Garden, in Nascot Wood Road, Watford, is free to visit and open every day except Christmas Day and Boxing Day. The web page was unavailable on 23.1.10, having disappeared sometime after 7.1.10 |
| Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfont St Giles | website | More than 30 rescued historic buildings. Open usually from late March to late October. Also special events. At Newland Park, Gorelands Lane, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks. - tel: 01494 872163 |
| Chorleywood Community Orchard, Chorleywood | website | An orchard, started in 2009, for local and other unusual varieties of apple tree, and plum, cherry and pear trees |
| Chorleywood House Estate, Chorleywood | website | Formal parkland, grassland, open meadows and mature woodland covering 168 acres and leading down to the banks of the River Chess |
| The Clock Tower, St Albans | website | A rare, mediaeval clock tower in the centre of St Albans. Open Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays from Easter to mid-September. 93 steps to the top for a good view on a clear day |
| Colne Valley Regional Park, Colne Valley | website | A mosaic of farmland, woodland and water, with fifty miles of river and canal and over forty lakes. Much is privately owned but large areas are open to the public or accessible through a network of paths. There is a visitors' centre in Denham Country Park |
| Croxley Common Moor, Croxley Green | website | A nature reserve of over 100 acres, with over 130 types of plant. It borders the Grand Union Canal |
| Croxley Great Barn, Croxley Green | 01923 772325 | Croxley Great Barn is more than 600 years old. It can be visited on the last Saturday of each month by arrangement. See also: Friends of Croxley Great Barn |
| The de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, London Colney | website | Incorporating the Mosquito Aircraft Museum. Next to Salisbury Hall in London Colney, south of St Albans - tel: 01727 822051 |
| The Gardens of the Rose, Chiswell Green, St Albans | website | Owned by the Royal National Rose Society. Open c. 5 June - 27 Sept. Entry charge of about £5 (free for accompanied children under 16) - tel: 01727 850461 or 0845 833 4344 |
| Gorhambury House, St Albans | website | Large neo-Palladian house built 1777-84. Open on Thursday afternoons from May to September, but book before arriving - tel: 01727 854051 or 0871 716 1940 |
| Harebreaks Wood, Watford | (No site found) | One of the last remaining local woodlands. Further information from Watford Borough Council on 01923 278558. See also: Friends of Harebreaks Wood |
| Heath Robinson Museum, Pinner | website | An exhibition of the work of the artist, William Heath Robinson, in West House, Pinner Memorial Park. This new museum might be open by the summer of 2009 |
| Ivinghoe Beacon, Ivinghoe | (No site found) | A hill in the Chilterns, reaching over 800 feet above sea level |
| Langleybury Children's Farm, Langleybury | website | See website for opening times etc |
| Leavesden Country Park, Abbots Langley | website | College Road, Abbots Langley, Herts. |
| Lincolnsfields Children's Centre, Bushey | website | A collection of WW2 buildings, with exhibitions and a small farmyard. There are occasional special events. At Bushey Hall Drive, Bushey, Herts. See also: The 1940s House |
| Merry Hill, Bushey | website | Woodland, pasture and grassland of more than 180 acres, managed by the Woodland Trust |
| Milton's Cottage, Chalfont St Giles | website | Once the home of the poet John Milton, it is now a museum of his work and times - tel: 01494 872313 |
| Moor Park Mansion, Moor Park | website | A magnificent mansion, built in 1720 in the Palladian style. Guided tours, starting between 10am and 11am, are on certain dates between April and October |
| Museum of St Albans, St Albans | website | A museum in Hatfield Road, St Albans. Open almost every day, with free entry. There is also a small wildlife garden |
| Natural History Museum, Tring | website | Founded by Walter Rothschild, the museum displays a wide variety of mammals, birds, reptiles and insects |
| North London Society of Model Engineers, Colney Heath | website | The society's model railways and lake for model boats at Colney Heath are open to the public on Sundays, 2-5pm, May to October |
| Old Gorhambury House (ruin), St Albans | website | The remains are a two-storey porch, parts of the hall, chapel and clock-tower. Three miles from St Albans Cathedral |
| Oxhey Woods, Oxhey | website | A nature reserve covering 240 acres in South Oxhey |
| The Paper Trail, Apsley | website | An industrial 'exploration' centre built around a fully working, historic paper mill at Apsley |
| Pitstone Windmill, Ivinghoe / Pitstone | website | One of England's oldest surviving post-mills. Usually open on summer Sunday afternoons, but check before visiting - tel: 01442 851227 |
| Prestwick Road Meadows, Oxhey | website | A nature reserve in South Oxhey, one of the few surviving meadows in the country, rich with flowers in the summer |
| Redbourn Museum, Redbourn | website | Showing the history of the village, north-west of St Albans. The museum has three rooms in Silk Mill House, The Common. - tel: 01582 793397 |
| Redbournbury Mill, Redbournbury | website | A restored 18th-century working water mill with a museum. Beside the River Ver and the old Roman road, Watling Street, 2 miles north of St Albans |
| Roman Theatre of Verulamium (ruins), St Albans | website | The remains of the only Roman theatre of its type in Britain, which could seat 2000 spectators |
| Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence | website | An Edwardian house near Welwyn. Home of George Bernard Shaw |
| Shenley Park, Shenley | website | Shenley Park, at Radlett Lane, Shenley, Herts., has an orchard, meadow, woodland walks, historic buildings and a 2-acre landscaped walled garden with an amphitheatre |
| St Albans Cathedral, St Albans | website | The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban is usually open to visit from 8am to 5.45pm if not in use - check by telephone. Guided tours are available most days. Evening concerts are listed on the website - tel: 01727 860780 |
| St Albans Organ Theatre, St Albans | website | Administered by St Albans Musical Museum Society. Demonstrations on Sunday afternoons. Monthly concerts on Saturday evenings |
| Three Rivers Museum of Local History, Rickmansworth | 01923 775882 or 772325 | Located in Basing House, between the Library and Watersmeet in Rickmansworth. Open Mon-Fri, 2-4pm; Sat 10am-4pm but closed on bank holidays. Admission free |
| Tring Reservoirs, Tring | website | A group of four reservoirs owned and managed by British Waterways. Popular with bird-watchers |
| Verulamium (ruins), St Albans | website | Some of the remains of this large Roman town can be seen, including what is left of the hypocaust. The Roman Theatre (q.v.) is privately owned and listed separately |
| Verulamium Museum, St Albans | website | A museum of everyday life in Roman Britain, in the middle of the site of the Roman town |
| Verulamium Park, St Albans | website | A park of 100 acres, with an ornamental lake. The website is that of the Friends of Verulamium Park - tel: 01727 819366 |
| Watford Fire Museum, Watford | website | A museum of old fire-fighting equipment, now in the Lower High Street. For opening times see the website |
| Watford Museum, Watford | website | |
| Whippendell Wood, Watford / Three Rivers | website | Also known as Whippendell Woods. 160 acres of woodland, bordering Cassiobury Park. Owned by Watford Borough Council although geographically in Three Rivers |
| The Withey Beds, Rickmansworth | website | A nature reserve with a range of habitats including wet woodland, marsh and drier grassland covering 19 acres. Adjacent to Moor Lane |
| Other websites | Past events to the end of 2010 | Past events from the start of 2011 | Notes | Contact |
| Some other websites of
interest | ||
|---|---|---|
| Genealogy in Hertfordshire | website | A site with much on the history of Watford and places nearby. The website address changed sometime before 24.1.10 |
| Peace Hospice | website | A hospice for the terminally ill of South West Hertfordshire, funded mainly by charitable donations |
| St John's Church, Watford | website | With thanks for kindly providing a link to this site |
| Watford New Hope Trust | website | A local charity for the homeless, providing shelter, food and help to rebuild damaged lives |
| What's On at Local Theatre Groups | website | Covers North London and South Hertfordshire. The Guild Players provide this useful list |
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