St. Albans is a beautiful commuter market city located in the valley of the River Ver in Hertfordshire, an 18-minute train journey to London St. Pancras International, with a rich 2000-year history.

It has a quaint village feel with cobbled streets, a cathedral (the longest in the Country), England’s oldest pub, the only fully excavated Roman Amphitheatre in Britain and several medieval buildings!

There are a number of reasons why so many have chosen to live in St. Albans. There is a strong community feel due to the abundance of small and independent businesses that live here and there is a buzzing weekly market and monthly farmers' market boasting some of the best produce in the area.

St. Albans is blessed with a variety of open green spaces to explore, relax or exercise in. Verulamium Park, one of the best parts of living in St. Albans, is located bang in the city centre. It offers 100 acres of green space, a museum, an athletics track, a model boating lake to explore and much more. It is the perfect location for events all year round.

Another popular local spot, Clarence Park, is home to the football team and the cricket club. Summer Sunday afternoon concerts at the bandstand in Clarence Park are a treat for the whole family.

The city was recently named by The Sunday Times as ‘the best place in the southeast to live’, while another study found that it's the most popular city to raise a family. St. Albans is renowned for its outstanding educational system. Many local schools, both private and state, excel in their Ofsted reports.

If you haven’t visited St. Albans before and would like to, please check out our directory which is full of lovely independent businesses and companies that call St. Albans home!

FACT!

In the third century AD Christians were being persecuted. A Roman soldier, called Alban gave his cloak to a Christian priest to help him to escape. Subsequently Alban was beheaded on Holywell Hill and became the first British saint. As the Roman city declined the town was named St. Alban.

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