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Hitchin is also home to Blueharts Hockey Club, a leading club since 1946, with 7 men's teams and 7 women's team plus a thriving junior section. It also houses Hitchin Cricket Club, which has been an important cricket club within the area since 1866. Hitchin Swimming Club are based locally and competes at local, county and regional level.
This list of museums in Hertfordshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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]
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.
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]
St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England.. St Mary's Church is the largest parish church in Hertfordshire, [1] and is remarkably large for a town of the size of Hitchin — this has been cited as evidence of how Hitchin prospered from the wool trade. [1]
The British Schools Museum in Hitchin. The British Schools Museum is an educational museum based in original Edwardian and Victorian school buildings in Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. [1] The museum complex is made up of listed school buildings housing infants, girls and boys schools with houses for Master and Mistress. [2]