CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF WELWYN GARDEN CITY IN 2020

A circular walk around Welwyn Garden City

Our 20.20 km circular walk is proving to be a hugely popular commemoration of our town’s centenary year and leaves a legacy for years to come.

Celebrating Ebenezer Howard’s original vision of a ‘a marriage of town and country’ the route can be accessed from many points across the town to the beautiful countryside surrounding Welwyn Garden City.

Our walk leaflet is available below in downloadable format which is easy to print at home. Look out for our distinctive orange way markers.

The Route

The circular walk takes in some beautiful locations around Welwyn Garden City, including Stanborough Lakes, Mill Green, The Commons Nature Reserve, the site of the Panshanger Aerodrome, Tewin Bury, Digswell, Sherrardspark Woods, Brocket Hall and Lemsford.

Spokes radiate from the perimeter of the walk into the town to link with existing town trails, meaning you can do a section of the walk or all of it if you are feeling energetic!

There is a one mile accessible circular trail around The Commons and part of the Nature Reserve. Please note that access is via a gate which is unfortunately not suitable for mobility scooters.

Following the walk route

The walk is marked with our distinctive centenary waymarkers on the trail itself.

Printed leaflets, containing the illustrated map and information on places of historic interest, are available in some places in the town centre. You can download the leaflet in A4 format which is easy to print at home.

A section under the A1 can be prone to flooding and diversion signs are in place.

Two new information boards will be installed at Digswell car park and Stanborough Lakes later this year.

There has been a diversion route put in place due to flooding. Please download the PDF below:

Who has made the walk possible?

The project has been led by our team of enthusiastic volunteers – see below. They have worked tirelessly over the past 4 years, working with landowners, Herts County Council, Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council, local disability groups and local historians.

We would like to thank our sponsors for their generous support in making it possible.

We hope you enjoy the walk with family and friends and would love to see photos and feedback on social media.

You may also like to enjoy our four new walks celebrating our City of Trees.

Welwyn Garden City Centenary Foundation 1920-2020

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Collecting the Centenary

26th April 2021

Welwyn Hatfield Museum Service and the Centenary Foundation have been working to record the Centenary year of Welwyn Garden City and the impact the pandemic has had on the planned celebrations.

A photo of the new Ebenezer Howard Statue unveiled April 2021

Magnificent new statue of Ebenezer Howard on Howardsgate

17th April 2021

The magnificent statue of Ebenezer Howard created by talented sculptor Ben Twiston-Davies has now been unveiled on Howardsgate. Creating a new commemorative sculpture to the town’s founder was one of the most popular requests from the community for the town’s centenary celebrations, and we ensured we found the right sculptor to do justice to the visionary founder of our town.

David Harrison

Deborah Kirby

Jan Kitchin

Clare McIntyre

Diana Walsh

Pat Wells

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The Foundation can accept no responsibility for the organisation or regulation of any satellite events arranged to mark the centenary of Welwyn Garden City. This includes but is not limited to public liability insurance, health and safety issues (including risk assessments, Performance Licenses and safeguarding of children or vulnerable adults), transport, hiring of facilities, and any costs associated. The use of the Foundation name and logo does not infer any specific oversight or involvement of the Foundation unless stated.”

WGC Centenary Foundation Ltd.