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Hertfordshire (/ ˈ h ɑːr t f ər d ʃ ɪər / ⓘ HART-fərd-sheer or /-ʃ ər /-shər; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties. It borders Bedfordshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south and Buckinghamshire to the ...
Hertfordshire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Hertfordshire, in England.The council was created in 1889. It is responsible for a wide range of public services in the county, including social care, transport, education, and the Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Hertford (/ ˈ h ɑːr t f ər d / HART-fərd) is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county. The parish had a population of 26,783 at the 2011 census. [1] [a] The town grew around a ford on the River Lea, near its confluences with the rivers Mimram, Beane, and Rib.
Hertfordshire was the home of the pioneering British film maker Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, who was born in St Albans in 1874. He worked in Hertfordshire (but later what became the London Borough of Barnet), and witnessed the birth of the movies as an assistant/cameraman of Birt Acres (1854–1918). Acres, in 1895, co-developed the first British ...
This is a list of settlements in Hertfordshire ordered by population based on the results of the 2001 and 2011 censuses. In 2011 there were 35 settlements with 5,000 or more inhabitants in Hertfordshire. The next United Kingdom census will take place in 2021.
The seven most populated towns of Hertfordshire. This is a list of settlements in Hertfordshire by population based on the results of the 2021 census . The next United Kingdom census will take place in 2031 .
East Hertfordshire is one of ten local government districts in Hertfordshire, England. Its council is based in Hertford , the county town of Hertfordshire. The largest town in the district is Bishop's Stortford , and the other main towns are Ware , Buntingford and Sawbridgeworth .
The Hertfordshire Local Defence Volunteers was formed at County Hall, to provide a secondary line of defence in case of invasion by the forces of Nazi Germany and other Axis powers during the Second World War, in 1940. [8] The Hertfordshire Film Archive was established at the building in 1978. [9]