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Wallingford Walk, ST. ALBANS, AL1 2JL

Viewed from Abbots Avenue West. A residential part of St Julians.

The line leads to Abbey Station. The cathedral can be seen in the distance.

Just what King Offa would have thought of the fact that a neighbourhood pub in Wallingford Walk on the Cottonmill estate was named after him will unfortunately have to remain a matter of conjecture. That said he did found St Albans Abbey in the 790s shortly before his death in 796.

Road developed in the c.1950s along with the rest of the area off Cottomnill Lane. The houses on the right would appear to be original, but although the area on the left is shown on the 1960 1:10,000 map as having also been built up, with individual detached houses set diagonally to the road, the ones here would appear to be a substituent redevelopment, dating from the late 1970s according to planning documents. The tower of St Albans Abbey can be seen in the background.

Looking along Abbots Avenue, with the bridge carrying the road over the Watford Junction to St Albans Abbey "Abbey Line" in the centre of the photo.

The London & North Western Railway built their line from Watford Junction to St Albans in 1858. This is the route viewed from Image The train is known locally as the Abbey Flyer.

The hall is in Abbotts Avenue opposite Image and its foundation stone was laid in 1952. For further information on the Christadelphian movement please see their website here http://www.godsaves.co.uk/index.htm

Viewed from the Abbotts Avenue bridge about a kilometre south of the St Albans Abbey terminus, the railway was built in 1858 by the London & North Western Railway and was the first line to be constructed into St Albans.

Church in Abbots Avenue built in the early 1950s as Cottonmill Baptist Church It closed in 1968 when the church merged with Park Street Baptist Church, but was taken over by the Christadelphians in 1976.