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A History of England from the Coming of the English to 1918. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1950. Citations from the 1972 Book Club Associates reprint. Jones-Baker, Doris (ed.) Hertfordshire in History. Originally published by Hertfordshire Local History Council, 1991; citations from the 2004 edition by the Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press.
Hertfordshire is located in the south-eastern part of England and is the county immediately north of London. It is officially part of the East of England region, a mainly statistical unit . [ 12 ] To the east is Essex , to the west is Buckinghamshire and to the north are Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire .
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies; Hertfordshire Association for Local History; Hertfordshire County Cricket Club; Hertfordshire county cricket teams; Hertfordshire Record Society; St Faith's Church, Hexton; Holy Trinity Church, Weston
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 a county constituency covering the county of Hertfordshire in England. It returned two Knights of the Shire to the House of Commons of England until 1707, then to the House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1832.
By the 15th century, Pendley was a small town. In 1440 the county sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire Sir Robert Whittingham (or Whytingham) and his wife Agnes received a grant of free warren from King Henry VI at Pendley manor; Sir Robert enclosed 200 acres and tore down the buildings on the land, returning the estate to pasture. [2]
Hertford Castle is a Norman era castle built beside the River Lea in Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire, England. Most of the internal buildings of the structure have been demolished. The main surviving section is the Tudor gatehouse, which is a Grade I listed building. [1]
St Albans is a city located in Hertfordshire, England. [1] It was originally founded as Verlamion a settlement belonging to the Catuvellauni (a Celtic tribe or state of southeastern Britain before the Roman conquest, attested by inscriptions into the 4th century).