North Home Counties

Youth Hostel Profiles:

North Home Counties (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire)

These completed files are of hostels grouped into a loose amorphous arrangement of the historic counties of Berkshire (awaiting a profile), Buckinghamshire (for example, Jordans hostel), Bedfordshire (awaiting a profile), Hertfordshire (Lee Valley, which is found here rather than under London), Huntingdonshire (awaiting a profile) and Cambridgeshire (Cambridge). Bedfordshire is alone amongst English and Welsh counties in never having an established youth hostel (save for a very short-lived Campus hostel in the early 2000s), while Huntingdonshire’s sole example was at Houghton Mill.

These profiles were represented regionally and sometimes fluidly by YHA’s London, Warwick & Northants, Oxford and Cambridge regions up to 1961/65, and Eastern region 1961/65-86. The early date of 1961 reflected the merging of the small Cambridge and East Anglia regions in that year.

To open a profile, click on the text below each image.

The profiles are strictly for personal study only and are the copyright of John Martin, YHA’s volunteer archivist. They must not be republished, transmitted or distributed.

You can find out more about the profiles here https://duncanmsimpsonwriting.com/profiles/

To open a profile, click on the text below each image.