Lower Dagnell Street Cottage,
The Cathedral Quarter, St Albans

Lower Dagnell Street Cottage offers unique two bedroom St Albans serviced apartments within a period building in the town centre.

Guests are conveniently located near to high street shopping, restaurants, bars and leisure centres, as well as the mainline train station with services into London.

This spacious and fully furnished cottage apartment has been recently renovated with contemporary styling whilst still retaining many of the original period features. It includes two large bedrooms, a fully equipped kitchen with dishwasher, washer/dryer, oven, microwave and hob, and a comfortable sitting room.

The self-catering apartments also benefit from a private courtyard garden and a residents permit is included with the cottage for on-street parking during their short-stay rental.

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Situated 22 miles north of central London in the Metropolitan green belt, St Albans is Hertfordshire's oldest town which has been shaped by 2000 years of human occupation.

After the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43, it developed as the city of Verulamium, becoming one of the largest towns in Roman Britain. Built mainly of wood, it was destroyed during the revolt of Boudicca in AD 60-61 but was rebuilt to feature many impressive town houses and public buildings. The town was then encircled by gated walls in AD 275.

The Abbey Church became St Albans Cathedral when the City Charter was granted in 1877. There is evidence that the original site was somewhat higher up the hill than the present building and there had certainly been successive abbeys before the current building was started in 1077.

The 1920s and 30s saw the development of the electrical, aircraft and printing industries which were further stimulated during the Second World War. It also became home to Ryder and Son seed merchants, and Samuel Ryder later founded the Ryder cup golfing trophy.

Today, St Albans has continued to develop as a popular commuter town. There are two railway stations; the City Station is about half a mile east of the city centre with trains to Luton Airport, London and Gatwick. The Abbey Station is less than a mile south of the centre with a service between St Albans and Watford Junction on the West Coast mainline. London Heathrow Airport is around a 30 to 45 minute motorway journey.

A street market is held in Market Place and St Peter's Street on Wednesdays and Saturdays, as it has been for many hundreds of years. There is also a farmers' market, on the second Sunday of every month.