St Albans

Vesta Avenue

St.Bartholomew the Apostle R.C. 1964 Pentagon shaped building in a modern style and its own version of the Hertfordshire spike.

Watling Street

Important Roman road which ran from Dover in Kent via London and St Albans to Wroxeter in Shropshire. Its two alignments north and south of the River Thames may have originally converged at the lowest fordable point on the river near the site of what later became Westminster. It was called by the Anglo-Saxons ‘Waiclinga strat’ or ‘Wstlinga street’ in the late 9th century, that is 'Roman road of the Wzclingas  -the family or followers of a man called Wacol - from an Old English personal name. The same folk name appears in ‘Waciingaceoster’ c.900, that is 'Roman fort of the Wceclingos', an early name for St Albans. It would seem then that the name Watling Street was applied to the stretch of the road between St Albans and London before it was extended to the whole length. The  northern alignment (still followed by the course of the present A5 from MARBLE ARCH and now variously known as Edgware Road, Maida Vale, Kilburn High Road, Shoot Up Hill, Cricklewood  Broadway, gives name to the modern district of  Watling,

5 Glebe House. This stands behind a tall red brick wall with a white face. It is an 18^th house with 19^th outbuilding with gothic features.

Vicarage Close

Development from the 1970s with pairs and terraces, behind a red brick wall. The former vicarage was demolished in the late 1960s