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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.
St Albans Museums is a collection of museums and historic buildings in the city of St Albans, Hertfordshire, England [1] that is run by St Albans City and District Council. [2] It oversees St Albans Museum + Gallery and the Verulamium Museum, [ 2 ] and also the Hypocaust Museum at Verulamium , St Albans' medieval Clock Tower , and the ruins of ...
Verulamium Park is a park in St Albans, Hertfordshire. Set in over 100 acres (0.40 km 2) of parkland, Verulamium Park was purchased from the Earl of Verulam in 1929 by the then City Corporation. Today the park is owned and operated by St Albans City and District Council. The park is named after the Roman city of Verulamium on which it stands ...
The park was laid out in early 1894, and comprises a 16-acre (65,000 m 2) municipal sports ground and a 9-acre (36,000 m 2) public park and pleasure ground.The benefactor, Sir John Maple, the owner of Maple's furniture store in Tottenham Court Road who lived at nearby Childwickbury, donated the land and paid for the laying out, the planting and the construction of the buildings; the layout of ...
Then, in 1875, the Bishopric of St Albans Act was passed and on 30 April 1877 the See of St Albans was created, which comprises about 300 churches in the counties of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. Thomas Legh Claughton , then Bishop of Rochester , elected to take the northern division of his old diocese and on 12 June 1877 was enthroned first ...
St Albans Market is an outdoor street market in the cathedral city and market town of St Albans. The market runs from Market Place North-East up St Peter's Street to the junction with Catherine Street—for a length of 485 metres (1,591 ft)—and is managed by St Albans City & District Council .
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic School (NBS) is a secondary school with academy status situated on the rural fringe of St Albans, an old Roman city in Hertfordshire, England. The school takes its name from the 12th-century priest St Albans-born and educated Nicholas Breakspear , who, as Pope Adrian IV, is the only Englishman ever to have occupied ...
St Albans on the 1 inch to the mile map Ordnance Survey map of 1944. In the inter-war years St Albans, in common with much of the surrounding area, became a centre for emerging high-technology industries, most notably aerospace. Nearby Radlett was the base for Handley Page Aircraft Company, while Hatfield became home to de Havilland.