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Map of Hertfordshire, UK with St Albans highlighted. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160%: Date: 3 August 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Coastline and administrative boundary data from Boundary-Line product. Lake data from Meridian 2 product. Inset derived from England location map.svg by Spischot. Author
St Albans (/ s ən t ˈ ɔː l b ən z /) is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, [1] England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, 20 miles (32 km) north-west of London, 8 miles (13 km) south-west of Welwyn Garden City and 11 miles (18 km) south-east of Luton.
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The town of St Albans had been an ancient borough since 1553. It was reformed in 1836 to become a municipal borough and additionally gained city status in 1877. [3] [4]The modern St Albans district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering the area of three former districts, which were all abolished at the same time: [5]
Hertfordshire is located in the south-eastern part of England and is the county immediately north of London. It is officially part of the East of England region, a mainly statistical unit . [ 12 ] To the east is Essex , to the west is Buckinghamshire and to the north are Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire .
M10 south of St Albans in 2005. The M10 was a motorway in Hertfordshire, England, running for approximately 3 miles (4.5 km) southeast from the M1 motorway at junction 7 near Hemel Hempstead to the A414 North Orbital Road at Park Street Roundabout, just south of St Albans. Opened in 1959, it was reclassified as part of the A414 in 2009 having ...
St Albans Cathedral, officially the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, [5] also known as "the Abbey", is a Church of England cathedral in St Albans, England. Much of its architecture dates from Norman times. It ceased to be an abbey following its dissolution in the 16th century and became a cathedral in 1877.
The AL postcode area, also known as the St Albans postcode area, [2] is a group of ten postcode districts in England, within five post towns. These cover central Hertfordshire , including St Albans , Harpenden , Welwyn , Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield .