Wednesday 18th June 2025
Historic Walking Tour
Meet outside The Visit Hitchin Shop, 1a Churchyard, Hitchin SG5 1HR
7pm
Hitchin Worthies – This tour with former British Schools Museum curator Andy Gibbs starts at the memorial to Hitchin’s historian and ghost hunter, Reginald Hine. The tour includes the house of the first man to translate the Iliad into English, pioneering surgeon Joseph Lister’s school, a unique building saved by a Bletchley Park code-breaker and the place where Henry VIII fled, naked, from a fire.
The walk takes approximately 1hr 30minutes/ 2 hours.
Tickets: £10.00 Adult / £5.00 Child (under 15s) available from The Visit Hitchin Shop,1a Churchyard, Hitchin SG5 1HR or online via link above.
