Charity shops in St Albans
- 11 shops
- 8 charity
- 3 book & second-hand
- 1 walking route
- within 6 km of the centre
St Albans has 11 shops in all. The biggest run starts at Rennie Grove Hospice Care and runs through Scope, Books on the Hill, Cancer Research UK, Keech Hospice and Choas City Comics, 9 shops in about 16 minutes. Oxfam has 3 branches around town, and both High Street and St Peter's Street carry 2 shops each. Charity shops make up 8 of the 11, with 3 bookshops filling out the rest.
Chains with several branches: Oxfam (3)
Book-hunting routes
1 routeShops a few minutes' walk apart, in walking order. Do a run in one go and the outliers another day.
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Rennie Grove Hospice Care and 8 more9 shops
Rennie Grove Hospice Care → Scope → Books on the Hill → Cancer Research UK → 5 more
· ~16 min
Showing 11 shops
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Rennie Grove Hospice Care Charity shop
Victoria Street
Rennie Grove Hospice Care and 8 more · stop 1
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Scope Charity shop
The Maltings · AL1 3HL
Sun 11:00–17:00 · Rennie Grove Hospice Care and 8 more · stop 2
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0.2 km
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Keech Hospice Charity shop
High Street · AL3 4EH
Mon–Sat 09:00–17:00 · Rennie Grove Hospice Care and 8 more · stop 5
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Books on the Hill Second-hand bookshop
Holywell Hill · AL1 1ER
Mon–Sat 10:00–17:30 · Rennie Grove Hospice Care and 8 more · stop 3
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Choas City Comics Second-hand bookshop
Heritage Close · AL3 4EB
Mon–Fri 11:00–17:30 · Rennie Grove Hospice Care and 8 more · stop 6
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Rennie Grove Peace Charity shop
St Peter's Street · AL1 3EG
Rennie Grove Hospice Care and 8 more · stop 8
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Oxfam Bookshop Second-hand bookshop
Catherine Street
Mon–Sat 09:00–17:00 · Rennie Grove Hospice Care and 8 more · stop 9
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Rennie Grove Hospice Care Charity shop1.6 km
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Oxfam Charity shop
Mon,Tue,Thu 09:00–17:00
1.6 km
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Book hunting in St Albans
Nearest-first is a decent route plan on its own: cluster your visits, start with the shops closest to each other, and save the outliers for days you're passing anyway. Charity shops re-shelve constantly, most put new donations out every day or two, so a shop that was quiet on Saturday can be a different shop by Wednesday. Weekday mornings beat weekend afternoons, and it's always worth asking a volunteer when the book trolley comes out.
6 of the shops here have their opening hours on record, and 4 of those open on Sundays. Where no hours are listed, nobody has recorded them yet.
If you want the odds on your side, read our guides to finding good books in charity shops and spotting the books worth grabbing before you set out.
Donating books in St Albans
8 of the shops here are charity-run and take book donations during opening hours. If you pay UK income tax, filling in a Gift Aid form at the till lets the shop claim an extra 25% on whatever your books sell for, at no cost to you. Shops pay to dispose of what they cannot sell, so a bad donation costs the charity money. The test before you pack a bag: would someone buy this today? Recent fiction, classics, cookery and children's books move. Old textbooks, out-of-date travel guides and anything damp or mouldy do not.
Our guide to where to donate books covers which shops suit which books, and what to do with a whole house clear-out.
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