Meriden is a Village in the county of Hertfordshire.

Meriden postcode: WD25 9UP

Retail in Meriden

There are great places to visit near Meriden including some great cities, villages, lakes, parks, hiking areas, towns, geological features, woodlands, nature reserves, waterfalls, historic buildings, gardens, country parks, ruins and shopping centres.

Letchworth, and St Albans are some of Meriden best cities to visit near Meriden.

The area around Meriden features a number of interesting villages including Norton, Redbourn, Anstey, Therfield, Chorleywood, and Essendon.

Norton Pond, Radwell Mill Lake, and Hatfield Forest Lake are great places to visit near Meriden if you like lakes.

Parks to visit near Meriden include Broadway Gardens, and Chorleywood Common.

Letchworth’s Greenway, and Oughtonhead Common Nature Reserve are great places to visit near Meriden if you like hiking areas.

Hitchin, Bishop's Stortford, Royston, Welwyn Garden City, Baldock, Sawbridgeworth, and Hatfield are great places to visit near Meriden if you like towns.

Hill End Chalk Pit is one of Meriden's best, nearby geological features to visit in Meriden.

There are a number of woodlands near Meriden including Hitchwood, and Hatfield Forest.

Oughtonhead Common Nature Reserve, Stotfold Watermill and Nature Reserve, and Chorleywood Common are great places to visit near Meriden if you like nature reserves.

Meriden is near some unmissable waterfalls like Oughtonhead Waterfall,

There are a several good historic buildings in the Meriden area like Stotfold Watermill and Nature Reserve, Church of Saint Mary at Hitchin, Wimpole Hall, Wimpole Ruins, and Hatfield House.

Meriden is near some unmissable gardens like Hitchin Lavender,

There are a number of country parks near Meriden including Hatfield Forest, Wimpole Estate, Stanborough Park, and Pishiobury Park.

Wimpole Ruins is one of Meriden's best, nearby ruins to visit in Meriden.

The area close to Meriden boasts some of the best shopping centres including atria Watford.

Meriden History

There are some historic monuments around Meriden:

• Grim's Ditch: section N of Blythwood House
• Verulamium, part of wall and ditch of Roman city
• Oxhey Hall moated site
• Iron Age territorial boundary known as Beech Bottom Dyke
• The Clock Tower
• Linear earthworks in Pear Wood, W of Watling Street
• Dominican Priory (site of) (excluding inhabited parts)
• Brockley Hill Romano-British pottery and settlement
• The Benedictine Priory of St Mary (Sopwell Priory) and the post-medieval mansions known as Sopwell House or Lee Hall
• Roman remains S of Hansteads House, Netherwyld Farm
• Roman villa on Moor Park golf course
• Little London moated site and surrounding earthwork enclosures, Kings Langley
• The Manor of the More
• Colney Chapel moated site
• High Street Green Roman barrow
• The Pondyards, Gorhambury
• Gadebridge Roman villa
• St Albans Abbey, site of conventual buildings
• Grim's Ditch: four linear sections between Uxbridge Road and Oxhey Lane
• St Albans Abbey Gatehouse
• Batch Wood, moated manorial site
• Bacon's House, Gorhambury
• Pinner Hill ice house, 70m north east of Pinner Hill Golf Clubhouse
• Grim's Ditch: section extending 1500yds (1370m) NE from Oxhey Lane
• Pinner deer park, Pinner Park Farm
• Moated site at Bushey Hall Farm
• Verulamium, The Fosse
• Headstone Manor moated site
• Park Pale, Ruislip
• Replica of the Mohne Dam, in the grounds of the Building Research Establishment, Garston
• The Charter Tower, Hemel Hempstead
• Devils Ditch
• Verulamium, site of
• Verulamium, Bacons Mount
• 18th century obelisk commemorating Cassivellaunus, at Brockley Hill, Stanmore
• Verulamium, Prae Wood settlement
• Royal Palace (site of)
• Penne's Place moated site, Aldenham
• Romano-Celtic temple complex at Wood Lane End, 280m SW of Woodwells Farm