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Potters Crouch Hertfordshire Map

Traditional county: Hertfordshire · District / Borough: St. Albans · Region: Eastern

Explore Potters Crouch, Hertfordshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Potters Crouch map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.

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PlacePotters Crouch
Traditional CountyHertfordshire
District / BoroughSt. Albans
RegionEastern
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude51.734709
Longitude-0.384137
Place TypeHamlet

About Potters Crouch

Potters Crouch maintains a quiet composure amidst the rolling agricultural folds of Hertfordshire, where the horizon often blurs into a soft, bruised violet at dusk. It lies 2.3 miles west-south-west of St Albans (from St Albans: bearing 238°T, OS grid TL 116 052), and is situated west-north-west of Chiswell Green village. The lanes here carry the weight of ancient cart tracks, winding past hedgerows that thicken with hawthorn and stubborn, knotted oaks. A short distance away, the expansive grounds of Gorhambury offer a vast, green lung to the landscape, its historic parkland stretching out like a pleated velvet cloak. Potters Crouch retains the solitude of a place left slightly off the map, where the light hits the flint-strewn walls of local barns with a sharp, crystalline clarity. To the north, the earth hides the remnants of the Prae Wood Settlement, a reminder of a Roman past that lingers beneath the turned soil of modern fields. The air here holds a distinct, earthy scent of damp loam and woodsmoke, suggesting a life governed more by the turning of the seasons than the clock. Even in the height of summer, the shadow of the nearby woodland brings a cooling stillness to the afternoon, grounding the hamlet in a permanent, meditative calm.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Chrysalis Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.0 mi, 131° SE
  • Verulamium, Prae Wood Settlement (Scheduled Monument) — 1.0 mi, 025° NNE · 55 ha
  • Verulamium, Bacons Mount (Scheduled Monument) — 1.4 mi, 023° NNE · 2 ha
  • Greenwood Park (Park) — 1.5 mi, 097° E
  • Gorhambury (Historic Park or Garden) — 1.5 mi, 355° N · 246 ha
  • Verulamium, The Fosse (Scheduled Monument) — 1.5 mi, 030° NNE · 15 ha
  • The Hypocaust (Museum) — 1.6 mi, 050° NE
  • London Gate (Historic Ruins) — 1.6 mi, 057° ENE
  • The Roman Wall at St Alban's (Historic Ruins) — 1.6 mi, 055° NE
  • Chalk Dell (Valley) — 1.7 mi, 357° N
  • St Julian's Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.7 mi, 089° E
  • St Stephens Hill Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.7 mi, 078° ENE
  • Verulamium Park (Park) — 1.8 mi, 055° NE
  • Abbey Theatre (Theatre) — 1.8 mi, 067° ENE
  • The Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.9 mi, 056° ENE
  • Abbey Gateway (Attraction) — 2.0 mi, 057° ENE
  • Moor Mill Quarry, West Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 2.2 mi, 137° SE
  • Phoenix Gateway sculpture (Public Artwork) — 2.3 mi, 312° NW
  • Maltings Theatre (Theatre) — 2.3 mi, 061° ENE
  • St Alban's Museum + Gallery (Museum) — 2.3 mi, 058° ENE
  • The Odyssey Cinema (Cinema) — 2.4 mi, 067° ENE
  • St Albans South Signal Box Museum (Museum) — 2.6 mi, 068° ENE
  • Bricket Wood Common Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 2.7 mi, 162° SSE · 72 ha
  • Clarence Park Fountain (Monument) — 2.8 mi, 064° ENE
  • Hanstead Brook (River) — 3.0 mi, 141° SE
  • Cineworld Hemel Hempstead (Cinema) — 3.1 mi, 287° WNW
  • Platform 9 ¾ (Attraction) — 3.3 mi, 206° SSW
  • St Albans Organ Theatre (Museum) — 3.3 mi, 076° ENE
  • Brick Cross (Monument) — 3.3 mi, 292° WNW
  • Model Room (Attraction) — 3.4 mi, 205° SSW

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About This Potters Crouch Map Page

Explore Potters Crouch, Hertfordshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.734709, -0.384137. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.

Page builtAugust 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.