Local knowledge
Places, businesses and people
What the newsroom knows about the area, built up from published stories. Each entry links to the coverage behind it.
Businesses
- Sarakh
- Anita's Cake Bakery
- Baby Loves Swimming
- Baby Sensory Harpenden
- Baby Sensory St Albans & Harpenden
- Barclays Harpenden · closed September 2023
- Big Space · closed permanently 1 December 2019
- Big Space Indoor Play Centre · closed December 2019
- Bread Ahead Bakery & School · opening 12 October 2026
- Festive Sips
- HSBC Harpenden · closed 2023
- Harpenden Banking Hub
- Harpenden Books
- Harpenden Leisure Centre
- Hartbeeps
- Hartbeeps Quaker Meeting House · unconfirmed, excluded from guide
- Jacksons (St Albans) Ltd
- Jessy's Dream Bakes
- Kalimera
- NatWest Harpenden · closed 2018
- Nourish Contract Catering · newly registered, awaiting inspection
- Oxfam Books & Music, Harpenden
- Puddle Ducks
- Red Eagle Buses
- Selma's Little Bakery
- Stevie's Swim School
- Tappy Toes
- Tappy Toes Harpenden
- The Meating Room · removed from hygiene register; own site still lists as open
- The Perch · awaiting hygiene inspection (new registration)
- The White Horse
- Toddler Sense Harpenden
- Toddler Sense St Albans & Harpenden
- Veolia
- Water Babies
- Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre
Places
- Harpenden
- Harpenden Library
- Rothamsted Park
- Batford
- Lydekker Park
- Aldwickbury School Pool
- All Saints Church Hall
- Batford Methodist Church
- Batford Springs Local Nature Reserve
- Bowers Way West car park
- Christchurch Harpenden
- Crabtree Church
- Harpenden Common
- Harpenden Town Hall
- Hatching Green
- High Street Methodist Church
- Kinsbourne Green
- Musicale
- Oakley Road Play Area
- Porters Hill Park
- St John's Church Hall
- United Reformed Church Hall, Vaughan Road
- Woodend Play Area
Streets
Organisations
- St Albans City and District Council · to be abolished by 1 April 2028
- Harpenden Town Council
- Hertfordshire Constabulary
- Intalink
- Arriva
- Cash Access UK
- Crabtree Junior School
- Dacorum Borough Council
- Harpenden United Reformed Church
- Hertfordshire County Council
- Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
- Katherine Warrington School
- Perch Foundry
- Post Office Limited
- Southdown Family Centre
- St George's School