Park Street, Hertfordshire

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Park Street is a village near St Albans, Hertfordshire.

It is situated approximately 2.5 miles south of St Albans on the line of the old Watling Street. It lies mainly between the A405 North Orbital Road and the former Watling Street. Park Street railway station is the first station after St Albans Abbey on the St Albans Branch Line.

To the east is Frogmore, to the south, on the other side of the M25 is Bricket Wood and to the north-west, Chiswell Green.

The A405, A414, A5183 (formerly A5, Watling Street) and M10 motorway join at Park Street Roundabout. This was featured for many years in the road signs section of the Highway Code.

It has two primary schools, Park Street School and How Wood Primary School.

There are 4 pubs in the village: 'The Swan', 'The Falcon', 'The Overdraught' and 'The Red Lion'. There is also Park Street Football Club, which also has a bar. There are two shopping areas, At How Wood there is a shopping precinct with a newsagents, an off-licence, Peking and Cantonese takeaway and a sub Post Office. A second collection of shops on the junction of Watling Street and Park Street Lane includes a newsagent and a gun shop, which was briefly featured in a Michael Winner Film Dirty Weekend. The public toilets are also shown briefly in the On The Buses film. It has three Parks, The Recreation Ground, Mayflower Road, and Frogmore Lakes, a former gravel pit.

The main landmark in the village is a Mill, which is a replica of one that stood on the site before being demolished in 1984. During the demolition an old WW2 bomb was found in the "Old Smithy's" garden.