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Brocket Hall. Coordinates: 51.801°N 0.246°W. Brocket Hall, main (north) façade. Brocket Hall is a neo-classical country house set in a large park at the western side of the urban area of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England. The estate is equipped with two golf courses and seven smaller listed buildings, apart from the main house.
Welwyn Garden City (/ ˈwɛlɪn / ⓘ WEL-in) is a town in Hertfordshire, England, 20 miles (32 km) north of London. It was the second garden city in England (founded 1920) and one of the first new towns (designated 1948). It is unique in being both a garden city and a new town and exemplifies the physical, social and cultural planning ideals ...
Coordinates: 51.8187°N 0.2061°W. Digswell House c. 1905. Digswell House is a Grade II listed Mansion in Hertfordshire, erected c. 1805–07 by Samuel Wyatt for the Honourable Edward Spencer Cowper, who lived there for some years. It was built in the parish of Digswell from which it takes its name, but was transferred to Welwyn Garden City in ...
Panshanger district. The Panshanger district of Welwyn Garden City, and the nearby Panshanger Aerodrome, are named after the Panshanger estate. However, Panshanger Park does not lie within the Panshanger ward of Welwyn Garden City, nor indeed any part of Welwyn Garden City. It actually lies within the parishes of Hertford and Hertingfordbury.
Welwyn. Welwyn / ˈwɛlɪn / ⓘ is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also includes the villages of Digswell and Oaklands. It is sometimes referred to as Old Welwyn or Welwyn Village, to distinguish it from the much newer and larger settlement of Welwyn Garden City, about a mile to the south.
1348110. Shaw's Corner was the primary residence of the renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw; it is now a National Trust property open to the public as a writer's house museum. Inside the house, the rooms remain much as Shaw left them, and the garden and Shaw's writing hut can also be visited. The house is an Edwardian Arts and Crafts ...
Photograph of the baths. The Welwyn Roman Baths are a Roman ruin preserved under the A1 (M) just north of modern-day Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. The baths were a small part of the Dicket Mead villa, which was originally built in the 3rd century AD. The village of Welwyn has been described as being the site of a Romano-British ...
Guessens. Coordinates: 51°49′54″N 0°12′56″W. Guessens is a Grade II* listed timber-framed house at 6 Codicote Road, Welwyn, in Hertfordshire, England. It was built in the early 17th century and has later additions. From 1730 to 1765 it was the residence of the poet and dramatist Edward Young, who was also rector of Welwyn. [1]