Directions to Leading Edge

Approaching from the A1(M) (about 10 minutes)

Turn off the A1(M) at Junction 8 (signposted Hitchin and Stevenage North). Take the A602 into Hitchin and at the first roundabout you come to take the exit marked 'Town Centre', past the 'Three Moorhens' pub.

Go down the hill towards the Town Centre. At the bottom, go straight over the mini-roundabout (2nd exit), passing Netto supermarket. At the first main set of traffic lights turn left into Hermitage Road and at the next set of lights turn right into Bancroft.

About 100 metres after the traffic lights on your left, just after a pillar-box and before a Tudor style shop called 'Amicus', there is a narrow entrance to an open-air private car park. (The sign is on the wall at the entrance.) If you miss it there is a roundabout at the end of the road where you can do a U-turn. Please follow the car park around to space number 35 next to the caretaker's shed, which is reserved for Leading edge visitors. To find the Leading Edge team, turn right as you walk out of the private car park and you should be outside number 34 Bancroft. Leading Edge is on the first floor.

If there are no spaces available, there is a public car park further along Bancroft, to find it turn left out of the office car park, and it is about 50 metres along on your right.

Approaching from the North by the M1 (about 20 minutes)

Turn off the M1 at Junction 12 (signposted Flitwick and Ampthill). Follow the A5120 for a short distance towards Ampthill; take the second right signposted 'Harlington' and 'Barton'. After about 2 miles you come to a T-junction. Turn left towards Barton le Clay and Hitchin. At Barton village, follow the signs to Hitchin - you have to turn right at the mini-roundabout and then left onto the B655, signposted to Hitchin.

After entering Hitchin you come to a mini-roundabout at a Texaco garage. Turn left to Hitchin and within 400 metres you will come to a larger roundabout where you turn right. At the next roundabout take the first exit, marked 'Town Centre', past the 'Three Moorhens' pub.

Go down the hill towards the Town Centre. At the bottom, go straight over the mini-roundabout (2nd exit), passing Netto supermarket. At the first main set of traffic lights turn left into Hermitage Road and at the next set of lights turn right into Bancroft.

About 100 metres after the traffic lights on your left, just after a pillar-box and before a Tudor style shop called 'Amicus', there is a narrow entrance to an open-air private car park. (The sign is on the wall at the entrance.) If you miss it there is a roundabout at the end of the road where you can do a U-turn. Please follow the car park around to space number 35 next to the caretaker's shed, which is reserved for Leading edge visitors. To find the Leading Edge team, turn right as you walk out of the private car park and you should be outside number 34 Bancroft. Leading Edge is on the first floor.

If there are no spaces available there is a public car park further along Bancroft, to find it turn left out of the office car park, and it is about 50 metres along on your right.

Approaching from the South by the M1 (about 20 minutes)

Turn off the M1 at Junction 10 (signposted Luton South and Airport). Follow the A505 all the way round Luton to Hitchin. After entering Hitchin you come to a mini-roundabout at a Texaco garage. Go straight over to Hitchin (2^nd exit), and within 400 metres you will come to a larger roundabout where you turn right. At the next roundabout take the first exit, marked 'Town Centre', past the 'Three Moorhens' pub.

Go down the hill towards the Town Centre. At the bottom, go straight over the mini-roundabout (2nd exit), passing Netto supermarket. At the first main set of traffic lights turn left into Hermitage Road and at the next set of lights turn right into Bancroft.

About 100 metres after the traffic lights on your left, just after a pillar-box and before a Tudor style shop called 'Amicus', there is a narrow entrance to an open-air private car park. (The sign is on the wall at the entrance.) If you miss it there is a roundabout at the end of the road where you can do a U-turn. Please follow the car park around to space number 35 next to the caretaker's shed, which is reserved for Leading edge visitors. To find the Leading Edge team, turn right as you walk out of the private car park and you should be outside number 34 Bancroft. Leading Edge is on the first floor.

If there are no spaces available there is a public car park further along Bancroft, to find it turn left out of the office car park, and it is about 50 metres along on your right.

By Rail

Trains run regularly from King's Cross, taking around 40 minutes, and there are up to four an hour at peak times. From the station it is about a fifteen-minute walk to our offices.

From the station, turn left into Walsworth Road. Proceed for about three-quarters of a mile to the first main set of traffic lights. Turn right into Hermitage Road and at the next set of lights turn right into Bancroft.

Our offices are on your left, after a Tudor style shop called Amicus, in about 100 metres. Leading Edge is on the first floor.