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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.
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]
Arthur Melbourne-Cooper's A Dream of Toyland, produced in St Albans in 1907. The pioneering filmmaker Arthur Melbourne-Cooper was born in St Albans in 1874 at 99 London Road. He became a noted figure in the history of film when he began to explore the new art of moving photography in the mid-1900s. By 1908, he had set up a production base, the ...
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.
The earliest cities (Latin: civitas) in Britain were the fortified settlements organised by the Romans as capitals of the Celtic tribes under Roman rule.The British clerics of the early Middle Ages later preserved a traditional list of the "28 Cities" (Old Welsh: cair) which was mentioned in De Excidio Britanniae [c] and Historia Brittonum.
The station was opened by the Hatfield and St Albans Railway on 16 October 1865, [1] and passenger services ceased on 1 October 1951. [1]The station building has been restored, and the trackbed now forms part of the Alban Way, a six and a half-mile-long cycle track from St Albans to Hatfield.
St Alban's Catholic Church, North Finchley, London; St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Hertfordshire; St Alban's Church, Sneinton, Nottingham; St Alban's Church, Southampton; St Alban's Church, Tattenhall, Cheshire; St Alban's Church, Teddington, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames; St Alban's Church, Wallasey, Merseyside; St Alban's Church ...
St Albans is a constituency [n 1] in Hertfordshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Daisy Cooper, a Liberal Democrat. [n 2]This article also describes the eponymous parliamentary borough (1554–1852), consisting only of the city of St Albans, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system.