Geograph - photograph every grid square

This is approaching the border between St Albans and Hatfield.

Alban Way is a cycle and footpath which runs along the route of the old Hatfield to St Albans railway. This platform was the Smallford Station. The bridge carries traffic on Station Road. The station was opened in 1866, firstly as... (more)

Terrace of houses in Smallford. Although undated, they appear on the 1873-79 revision of the 6 inch map (published in 1883), and so dates from before then.

Smallford Trail part of Alban Way at the remains of Smallford Station platform

A large area of glasshouse cultivation.

The pub shows up on the out of date map so I thought it worthwhile including as a record.

This old station building is protected behind a high metal fence.

Cast iron post by the A1057, in parish of COLNEY HEATH (ST ALBANS District), Hatfield Road, on the verge, on North side of road. Wilder gabled iron casting, erected by the Reading & Hatfield turnpike trust in the 19th century.... (more)

1930's Ordnance Survey maps show this public house as just The Horsehsoes. It is a Grade II Listed Building, the early timber framed parts of which date from the early 18th Century. The pub's website is here... (more)

A couple of the giant greenhouses at Smallford, between St Albans and Hatfield.

The Alban Way, or the Smallford Trail as it is described on several maps, follows the trackbed of the former Hatfield and St Albans Railway. The railway was completed in 1865 and was taken over by the Great Northern Railway in 1883. It was... (more)