HERTFORDSHIRE STORIES

A documentary series

HERTFORDSHIRE STORIES

The towns and villages of the Ver, the Mimram and the Lea

Films about the places on your doorstep: who lived there, what they built, and what you can still see today. Watch the films, then walk them.

  • Film out now
  • In production
  • Rivers Lea, Mimram, Beane, Rib, Ver & Hiz
Click a place to see its film

The films

Two thousand years, one place at a time

Walk the films

Stand where it happened

Self-guided audio walks on your phone: a map that follows you round, and a story that starts as you reach each stop. No app to install. Four are ready now: Old Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Hertford and, over the border in London, Finsbury Park.

  1. Open

    Open the walk on your phone at the starting point. No app to install.

  2. Walk

    The map follows you and shows the next stop, at your own pace, on any day you like.

  3. Listen

    At each stop, two minutes on what you're looking at and what happened right where you're standing.

Old Hatfield

Audio walk · 1.1 miles · 12 stops · from Hatfield station

  • The park gates and the Prime Minister
  • The Eight Bells, Dickens and Bill Sikes
  • The bishop's gatehouse, about 1480
  • St Etheldreda's and the Old Palace
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Welwyn Garden City

Audio walk · 1.6 miles · 10 stops · from Welwyn Garden City station

  • The Shredded Wheat factory
  • Guessens Road, where the founders lived
  • The first house, in the mud of 1920
  • Ebenezer Howard and the town he couldn't afford
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Hertford

Audio walk · 1.4 miles · 11 stops · from Hertford East station

  • The oldest Quaker meeting house in use
  • The Zeppelin raid of 1915
  • The hart's ford and the English Church's first council
  • The castle of queens and captive kings
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Finsbury Park

Audio walk · 1.9 miles · 10 stops · from Finsbury Park station, north London

  • The music hall where a woman was first sawn in half
  • A Georgian tavern's lake at the top of the hill
  • The flypaper murder on Tollington Park
  • The Rainbow, where Hendrix set fire to his guitar
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Digswell

From the film Digswell

  • St John the Evangelist
  • Digswell House
  • The River Mimram
  • Digswell Viaduct
In preparation

Tewin

From the film Tewin

  • Upper Green
  • St Peter's Church
  • Lady Anne Grimston's tomb
  • The Mimram valley
In preparation
An early tank on trial in a Hertfordshire park, 1916

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Where was this?

Five pictures from the films each day. Drop a pin on the map where you think each one was taken, and find out how well you know the valley.

Play today's five →