IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Princess Diana Drive, ST. ALBANS, AL4 0DG
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Princess Diana Drive, AL4 0DG by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (30 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Hill End station platform looking towards Hill End Lane
Part of the Alban Way route from St Albans to Hatfield
Image: © Robert Eva
Taken: 6 May 2017
0.09 miles
2
St Albans: Former Hill End railway station
The Great Northern Railway opened this station on their St Albans to Hatfield line in 1899 to serve the then new Hertfordshire County Mental Hospital. The station had a couple of sidings on its south side where a mobile home park is now, while a longer siding ran from a point west of the station into the hospital itself in order to deliver coal and other goods. The station closed along with passenger facilities on the rest of the line in 1951.
This is the same view as Barry's Image Photographs published elsewhere on the internet indicate that the railings arrived between 2004 and 2006, no doubt to alleviate some perceived health and safety risk. Meanwhile the platform edge remains unprotected to the unwary pedestrian...
The railway trackbed now forms the Alban Way and a section of National Cycle Network Route 61.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 24 Jun 2009
0.10 miles
4
Site of Hill End station
View off Hill End Lane (St Albans) towards Hatfield: ex-GNR Hatfield - St Albans (London Road) branch, closed to passengers 1/10/51, to goods 5/10/64.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 10 Oct 1993
0.11 miles
5
Alban Way crosses Hill End Lane
An old railway line between Hatfield and St Albans is now a cycleway, The Alban Way. It crosses a local road here through decorative old fashioned level crossing style gates.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 25 Aug 2024
0.12 miles
7
Hill End Lane crossing
Level-crossing style gates where the Alban Way crosses Hill End Lane.
Image: © Robert Eva
Taken: 6 May 2017
0.13 miles
8
Church, now used as art centre
The church at TL175068 has been converted into an arts centre / theatre sort of thing.
Image: © Rob Hinkley
Taken: 10 Apr 2005
0.13 miles
9
Marconi Way, St Albans
Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi founded an electronics manufacturing company which was a major employer in St Albans before being sold off to other businesses.
History on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi_Instruments
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 25 Aug 2024
0.15 miles
10
St Albans: Hixberry Lane
Hixberry Lane is an example of a Byway Open to All Traffic (a BOAT) where access is permitted for pedestrians, cyclists and motor vehicles. A BOAT is shown on the Ordnance Survey's 1:50,000 scale maps with a red dashed line with ticks opposite one another, while somewhat confusingly the same symbol is used on the 1:25,000 scale maps but in green. (A restricted byway is indicated with alternate ticks.)
Hixberry Lane is an old country route that existed long before the railway (now dismantled) or the hospital (now demolished) ever came to this area.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 24 Jun 2009
0.15 miles