National Trust & English Heritage places in Hertfordshire

5,000 acres of Chiltern woodland, chalk downland and commons with a visitor centre and Bridgewater Monument.

Twenty acres of open parkland in Potters Bar, given to the Trust by A.B. Sanderson in 1928 and 1934, with the medieval Great North Road buried beneath and the Hertfordshire Way crossing it.

Edwardian home of Nobel laureate George Bernard Shaw, with his famous revolving garden writing hut.

The flint walls, motte and moats of a royal Norman castle linked with Thomas Becket and the Black Prince, beside Berkhamsted station.

Sir Nicholas Bacon's ruined Elizabethan mansion, reached through the Gorhambury estate near St Albans.

Substantial flint-and-brick remains of Verulamium's Roman defences, including bastions and the London Gate.