Hitchin Historic Walking Tour - 23 July 2025

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.