Green Ring Are Shown on the Map Overleaf

walking & cycling to the map Want to explore further? St Albans Key Walking: Signposted walks off the Green Ring are shown on the map overleaf. These include: Green Ring Ver Valley Walk: www.riverver.co.uk/pages-walks Pub / ST ALBANS Restaurant GREEN Green Ring (traffic free) RING Abbey Line Trail: www.abbeyline.org.uk/walks.htm Supermarket For walking information and leaflets across

ST ALBANS Hertfordshire visit www.hertsdirect.org/walking. GREEN Green Ring (on road) Cycle Shop RING Cycling: A district-wide cycle map is available to Tourist Information help both new and experienced cyclists to plan Green Ring (crossing) their routes across the St Albans District. Rail Station You can pick up your free copy from local libraries,

Other Cycle Routes (on road) cycle shops, Tourist Information Centre and School Council offices. To request a copy, email:

Leisure Centre Other Cycle Routes (traffic free) [email protected].

Children’s Other free leaflets are available in this series of Play area Footpath (route normally marked by signs and waymarks with a yellow arrow) local traffic-free or quiet cycle routes: Arts Centre Bridleway (route normally marked by signs and waymarks with a blue arrow) Museum

H Hosital (not A&E) Street / Minor Road

Toilet Track

National Cycle Network Cycle Route Railway The Alban Way (St Albans - Hatfield) Abbey Way (St Albans - Watford) Field Main Road The Ayots (Wheathampstead - Welwyn Garden City)

Park The Nickey Line (Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead) River

Wood To view online or order copies go to:

Building www.hertscycling.com Residential

Commercial Lake

ST A L B A N S C Y C L E C A M P A I G N 1 Kilometre Scale

1 Mile © Crown copyright and database rights 2015 Ordnance Survey EUL 100019606 6.5 mile circular route around St Albans You are permitted to use this data solely to enable you to respond to, or interact with, the organisation that provided you with the data. You are not permitted to copy, sub-licence, distribute or sell any of this data to third parties in any form. Design and photography and text - Wragg Art House: www.wah.co.uk St Michael’s, Sopwell, Fleetville, Jan 2016 – © WAH 2016 Printed on environmentally friendly paper Bernard’s Heath, Townsend, New Greens 1

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2 3 2 Bernard’s Heath Clarence Park 1 This historic common 3 4 was the site of a battle for 3 Opened in 1894, Clarence Park retains The Wick St Albans in the War of all its period features - including a 1A piece of local the Roses, and features bandstand,4 fountain and ornamental wilderness, this Batchwood 2 5 St Albans at its northern side an 4 garden - plus the modern additions 400-year-old wood Play a round of golf in pictursque ancient earthwork called of a tree trail, sensory garden and 2and meadowland parklands; party at the 18th- Beechbottom Dyke. popular5 children’s play area.There are is a haven for birds Green Ring century Batchwood Hall nighclub; 3 also facilites for playing cricket, tennis, 6 and other wildlife. 5 or take a walk cross country to hockey, bowls and croquet. 3Spot the frogs ...the Green way Childwick Green and beyond. 6 and newts in the 4 7 seasonal pond! to work, school & play... 6 4 Plan your route around the green spaces of St Albans. 5 7 8 7 5 St Albans Green Ring offers you the chance to get out 1 6 8 9 of the traffic and into the fresh air on a new network of 8 paths encircling the city centre. 6 2 7 9 10 The Ring is a continuous walking and cycling route 9 1 L B 7 covering 6.5 miles (10km) of open space, parks, nature A A Roman Theatre 3 8 10 N reserves, and heritage sites. It connects to schools, These fascinating T 10 2 workplaces, shopping and leisure facilities, both of the ruins once hosted S 8 Watercress Beds 1 a variety of 4 9 S Find tranquility city’s railway stations, and St Albans’ finest beauty spots. entertainments, 3 in this local from religious 9 nature reserve • Enjoy a nature walk to the Watercress Beds, or a processions and 2 5 10 tucked between historical day out with the family at the dances to wild 4 the Alban Way beast fights. top 10 10 and the River Roman Theatre and Verulamium Museum. Several 6 3 Ver. Beautifully atmospheric 5 maintained • Warm up for your gym session with a run to open-air by volunteers, Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre/ Verulamium Spa productions 7 G sights 4 it includes or cycle to your tennis match in Verulamium Park. have been 6 a butterfly staged on site G meadow, • Stop off at the swings in Bernard’s Heath after in recent years. 8 R 5 woodland, 1 7 wetlands and school, or unwind after work with a scenic cycle N an orchard. ride from the station. 9 E I6 2 E N R 8 Verulamium10 Park & Museum 7 Verulamium Park is named3 after the Roman 9 Sopwell Ruins St Albans City and District Council are delighted to deliver City on which it stands and covers an area Popularly known as ‘The Nunnery,’ the the St Albans Green Ring as part of the 2009 City Vision for of nearly 77 hectares. The Park is home to 8 romantic ruins on Cottonmill Lane are, the Roman City Walls and mosaics. Take a St Albans. The Ring links and enhances existing foot and 10 in fact, the remains of a Tudor mansion walk around the ornamental4 lakes or bring built on the site after Henry VIII’s cycle paths and extends from Townsend in the north to your children to the Splash Park which is 9 Dissolution. Even so, it is a wonderful Fleetville in the east, Sopwell in the south and into open May to September. There is also a spot for a wander and a picnic. Verulam Estate to the west. Children’s Play Area, 5Cafés, Tennis & Netball 1 Courts, Outdoor Gym, Beach Courts and 9-Hole Golf Course and the award winning St Albans Cathedral 10 Westminster Lodge & Abbey Theatre Westminster6 Lodge Sports Centre The shrine of St Alban,2 Britain’s first A gym with a view of the Abbey, pool, Follow the route In the Museum you can learn about martyr, has been a centre of pilgrimage climbing wall, spa and more! with this map, everyday life in Roman Britain through for many centuries. Get fit at Westminster Lodge or take in recreated Roman rooms,7 interative exhibits Explore the cathedral’s3 long history in a show at the community-run and look out and the hundreds of remarkable, its myriad architectural styles, or attend Abbey Theatre next door. for the signs! locally-excavated objects on display. a service or concert to experience the 8 building in its full glory.4

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10 Kingshill Avenue Bridleway to Batchwood NCN 6 Childwick Green Golf Course & Walking & Cycle New Greens Sports Centre route to Harpenden Drive Beech Road Marshall Gurney Court Road Marshalswick Lane

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n Sunderland Avenue Normandy Road Normandy Ashwells Jennings Road Dalton Street Jennings Road

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s) Kingsbury Av r Woodstock Road South Road Woodstock Ver Valley Walk Branch Road Mount Pleasant u Prae Close h 6 Brampton Road C Upton Av St Albans King’s Road Hatfield Road St Peters Rd Hemel Hempstead Road Museum Lemsford Road Portland St Clarence Park et Hill Street Salisbury Av re Burnham Road Eaton Road St Selby Av Sports Grounds s Russell Av d ’ on A Arthur Road l t v a Royal Road e t Council o Roman a i 3 ch St Michaels r Offices R d Theatre i B Drovers Way h a M Offa Rd o Road Blandford Hatfield Road Fishpool Street Sandfield Road

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e p Castle Road W Marlborough Gt a a k Albion Road U Hatfield Road Ver Valley Walk George St r o a W R Morrisons d Upper Lattimore Road Beaconsfield Road Cemetary Oakdene Way Liverpool Rd n M n e la l L o e High St l ST ALBANS i m i i n St Albans t Camp Road GREEN Coach Mews ST ALBANS o v R Chequer St d . a RING GREEN s The Maltings Victoria Street City t n RING Sutton Road e S a Alban Way n re Verulamium London Road Station r C 1 G Park The Alban Way Clock Cecil Road V Hedley Road Road a R NCN 61 l Bluehouse Hill Tower Alexandra Rd Stanhope Road e Cathedral & o G r Walking & Cycle r i i l m e Abbey Church Marlborough Rd s e a route to Hatfield t u C Bedford Rd o n Campfield n n d l G of St Alban Hart Rd R e steps uildfor v s d Abbey Mill Lane Pageant Rd o A S R e o a r t a r d d d a r Maxwell Rd e Lattimore Road Inkerman Rd e C R p Oswald Breaks e Road Camp Road w a t e Cambridge Albert Street Flora Grove d Vi Ashley Road A1081 Alma Road n p Road a am The Hypocaust Holywell Hill Sopwell Walk V C Roman Shirley Road Wall Bardwell RoadLane Paxton Road C Odyssey ha Pa A4147 r rk Ely Road Watsons r vi Cinema i ew Pon n King Harry Lane d g ST ALBANS C

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Corinium Gate t Watercress Cunningham Avenue Walking & Cycle n Deva Cl Drive e Sopwell Ruins Wildlife d Thirlmere route to Hill End Griffiths Way R sc Association re Windermere & Highfield e e r sm Drive Dubrae Cl C ra r car park ft Flinders Cl G e 8 ro im c rt ill Mentmore Rd x o L d Av o Hopground H eylan steps London Road F Cassius M Ki ’s Rowlatt Drive ng n e Catham Cl H Sadleir Road h Boleyn Dr ST ALBANS arr p Sainsburys Cottonmill Lane y Ste GREEN La t Mercers RING Fr Westfields ne S Verulam ob Drakes Drive ish Wilshere Avenue Golf Club Rodney Avenue er Rd Jerome Doggetts Way Level rail C St Vincent Drive St Stephen’s Avenue o Hill End Lane

Row tt St Stephen’s crossing onm Ennerdale Cl Abbey Avenue St Stephens Watling St il l L Drive Church a Sopwell 1 Kilometre Abbey Way NCN 6/61 © Crown copyright and database rights River Ver 2016 Ordnance Survey EUL 100019606 Midway Walking & Cycle Scale route to Watford 1 Mile

Graham Close Watford Rd