St Paul's Walden is a village about 5 miles (8 km) south of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England.
The civil parish of St Paul's Walden also includes the village of Whitwell and the hamlet of Bendish.
[1] After the Reformation the manor belonged to St Paul's Cathedral; the name St Paul's Walden serves to distinguish the parish from King's Walden, although the Dean and Chapter sold their property in the 17th century.
[4][3] On 23 January 1923, the then Prince Albert, Duke of York, later to become King George VI, drove up to St Paul's Walden in his sports car, and proposed to Elizabeth in the woods at the Bury.
[6] They are occasionally opened to the public under the National Garden Scheme, a charity of which the Queen Mother was patron.