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Hitchin is about 14.48 km (9.00 mi) from Luton Airport, with a direct bus service linking the two. The connections are provided by National Express (number 787) and Arriva in Herts and Essex (100 Saphire services).
In 2004–5, North Hertfordshire District Council undertook a Fundamental Service Review of its Museum Service. Although it found that visitors greatly valued all aspects of the service (Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery, Letchworth Museum & Art Gallery, the Education Service with its School Loans scheme, the Archaeology and the Natural History Services), the two museums were both described as ...
Blue plaque on the frontage of Hitchin Priory. Today Hitchin Priory is a 52 bedroom hotel sitting in 19 acres of parkland making it a popular venue for weddings, conferences, etc. The hotel underwent a programme of complete refurbishment in 2009. [6] In 2013 Hitchin Priory was offered for sale at £3 million. [7]
Purwell Ninesprings is a 6.4-hectare (16-acre) nature reserve managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust on the edge of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. The reserve is in the flood-plain of the River Purwell. It has open water with water voles and birds such as moorhens, mallards and teals. Other birds include snipe and siskins.
Butts Close. Butts Close is an 11-acre (45,000 m 2) park in the town of Hitchin, Hertfordshire that used to once be a sporting ground for archery. Claimed to be the oldest open space in Hitchin, the name refers to the archery butts that used to be on it during the Late medieval and Tudor times. [1]
Hitchin Museum was founded in 1939 by the Hitchin & District Regional Survey Association in a house given by Ralph & Hubert Moss, grocers in the town. The house, formerly known as Agadir [1] and subsequently as Charnwood, was built in 1825. [2] The building opened in 1939 as a Public Library and in 1941 the top floor opened as a Museum.
The funeral services were held here for the conductor Sir Henry Wood, [9] who died at the nearby Hitchin Hospital, and solicitor and Hitchin historian Reginald Hine. In August 2015 windows at the church and those at St Paul's church in Letchworth were smashed in what police called a "religiously motivated attack." The cost of repair at St Mary ...
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