Baldock Museum
BALDOCK MUSEUM
& Local History Society
Old Town Hall
(Hitchin Street Entrance)
Baldock
SG7 6AX
Opening Hours
Fridays 11am - 3pm
Saturdays 11am - 3pm
Sundays 2pm – 4pm
The Museum closes during Christmas
Free admission
Baldock
The story of Baldock began c.1146 when Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke granted, along with much other land, 150 acres on the northern extremity of his manor of Weston, where it abutted the Icknield Way, to the Knights Templar as a donation towards their crusading activities in the Holy Land. The Templars decided that the most profitable use for this piece of land, conveniently situated as it was by the junction of several roads, would be to create a town on the site. The town they called Baldock.
