A pioneering innovation which makes life easier for passengers using St Albans Abbey station was officially opened by the Mayor of St Albans today (11 Aug). The new raised platform area helps ...

The Cathedral of St Albans in Hertfordshire has a claim to be the most ancient of all Britain’s churches. The story of the settlement it serves can be traced back archaeologically into the Iron Age.

The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Albans is one of the oldest churches in Britain — and quite possibly the very oldest — but no building survives through hundreds of generations without change.

St Albans Cathedral is situated in the middle of the ancient city. Opposite the entrance is Abbey gate. The present building was started in 1077, but is set on the site of a much older church.

The station is five minutes away by taxi, or about half an hour by foot. St Albans Abbey station is just a few minutes’ walk across the road from the theatre but has a less frequent service.

A nativity trail where actors tell the story of Christmas around a cathedral's grounds hopes to inspire children to use and be comfortable inside the abbey ... expected at St Albans Cathedral ...

And its history explains the building's layout. From 1913 until 1985, 222 London Road, next to the railway bridge near St Albans station, housed the Vickers Ship Model Experiment Tank which tested ...