Hertfordshire
Geography
Status:	Ceremonial & Administrative County
Region:	East of England
Area: - Total - Admin. council	Ranked 36th 1,643 km² Ranked 32nd
Admin HQ:	Hertford
ISO 3166-2:	GB-HRT
ONS code:	26
NUTS 3:	UKH23
Demographics
Population: - Total (2003 est.) - Density - Admin. council	Ranked 15th 1,040,925 634 / km² Ranked 6th
Ethnicity:	93.7% White 3.0% S.Asian 1.1% Afro-Carib.
Politics
Hertfordshire County Council http://www.hertsdirect.org/
Executive:	Conservative
Members of Parliament
James Clappison, Barbara Follett, David Gauke, Oliver Heald, Peter Lilley, Anne Main, Mike Penning, Mark Prisk, Grant Shapps, Charles Walker, Claire Ward map of admin county File links The following pages link to this file: Hertfordshire Categories: GFDL images ... The Ceremonial counties of England are areas of England that are appointed a Lord-Lieutenant, and are defined by the government with reference to administrative counties of England. ... The division into counties is one of the larger divisions of England. ... East of England is one of the official regions of England. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a Physical quantity. ... This is a List of Ceremonial counties of England by Area. ... To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 1,000 km² and 10,000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... This is a List of Administrative shire counties of England by Area, that is to say Administrative counties with a two-tier County council structure, not including Administrative counties which are Unitary Authorities. ... This article is about Hertford in England. ... The ISO 3166-2 codes for the United Kingdom correspond to the nations administrative divisions. ... The Office for National Statistics coding system is a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating census and other statistical data. ... The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a geocode standard for referencing the administrative division of countries for statistical purposes. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per unit of volume. ... This is a List of Ceremonial counties of England by Population - 2002 mid-year estimates from the Office for National Statistics, unrounded figures published by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the Entitlement Notification Reports for Revenue Support Grants [1]. See also: List of Administrative shire counties of... This is a List of Administrative shire counties of England by Population, that is to say Administrative counties with a two-tier County council structure, not including Administrative counties which are Unitary Authorities. ... Arms of Hertfordshire County Council. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... This is a list of MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005 to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom at the United Kingdom general election, 2005, arranged by constituency. ... William James Clappison (born September 14, 1956) is a politician in the United Kingdom, and Member of Parliament for Hertsmere. ... Daphne Barbara Follett (born 25 December 1942) is a British politician - she is the Labour member of Parliament for Stevenage, which she first won at the 1997 general election. ... David Gauke is the Conservative MP for Hertfordshire South West. ... Oliver Heald (born 15 December 1954) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... The Right Honourable Peter Lilley (born August 23, 1943) is a British MP. He currently represents the constituency of Hitchin and Harpenden and, prior to boundary changes, represented St Albans which was its predecessor seat. ... Anne Main is the Conservative MP for St Albans. ... Michael Penning MP (b. ... Mark Prisk (born 12 June 1962) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... Grant Shapps is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Welwyn Hatfield in the United Kingdom, winning the seat in the 2005 election on 5 May 2005 from Labours Melanie Johnson. ... Charles Ashley Rupert Walker (born 11 September 1967) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. ... Claire Ward (born 9 May 1972) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
Districts
Three Rivers Watford Hertsmere Welwyn Hatfield Broxbourne East Hertfordshire Stevenage North Hertfordshire St Albans Dacorum

Hertfordshire (pronounced "Hartfordshire" and abbreviated as "Herts") is an inland county in the United Kingdom, officially part of the East of England Government region. It is one of the Home Counties. map File links The following pages link to this file: Hertfordshire User:Morwen/Allnumbered Categories: GFDL images ... Three Rivers is a local government district in Hertfordshire, England. ... Watford is a town and district (styled as borough) in Hertfordshire, England about 20 miles northwest of the centre of London. ... Hertsmere is a local government district and borough in Hertfordshire, England. ... Welwyn Hatfield is a local government district in southern Hertfordshire. ... Broxbourne is a local government district and borough in Hertfordshire, England. ... East Hertfordshire is a local government district in Hertfordshire, England. ... Stevenage is a town and district in Hertfordshire, England, and is part of the London Commuter Belt. ... North Hertfordshire is a local government district in Hertfordshire, England. ... The City and District of St Albans is a local government district, in Hertfordshire, England. ... This is an article about The Borough of Dacorum. ... The traditional counties as usually portrayed. ... East of England is one of the official regions of England. ... The phrase Home Counties is a semi-archaic name for the English counties bordering London. ...

Hertfordshire is located to the north of Greater London, and much of the county is part of the London commuter belt. Greater London is the top level administrative subdivision covering London, England. ... Commuters from East Anglia arrive at Liverpool Street Station The London Commuter Belt or London Metropolitan Area is the name given to the built-up area surrounding and running into Greater London but not administered as part of it. ...

To the east of Hertfordshire is Essex, to the west is Buckinghamshire and to the north are Bedfordshire, Luton and Cambridgeshire. This article is about the county of Essex in England. ... Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in south central England. ... Bedfordshire is a county in England. ... Luton is a town in England, located 50km north of central London and officially part of the East of England region. ... Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs) is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. ...

The highest point in the county is 803 feet (245 m) above sea level, a quarter mile (400 m) from the village of Hastoe near Tring. Tring is a small market town in the Chiltern Hills in Hertfordshire, England with a population 13,000. ...

The county motto is "Trust and fear not".

History

Main article: History of Hertfordshire. Hertfordshire was originally the area assigned to a fortress constructed at Hertford under the rule of Edward the Elder in 913. ...

Hertfordshire was originally the area assigned to a fortress constructed at Hertford under the rule of Edward the Elder in 913. The name Hertfordshire appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1011. This article is about Hertford in England. ... Edward the Elder (871? – July 17, 924) was King of England (899 – 924). ... Events The Shiite Fatimid state in modern day Tunisia launches a failed military campaign against Egypt Births Deaths Eadwulf, Anglo-Saxon Earl of Bernicia who ruled the land north of the Tees Alexander III of Byzantium Categories: 913 ... The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of (mainly) secondary source documents narrating the history of the Anglo-Saxons and their settlement in Britain. ... Events Emperor Sanjo ascends to the throne of Japan. ...

The Domesday Book recorded the county as having nine hundreds. Tring and Danais became one, Dacorum. The other seven were Broadwater, Cashio, Edwinstree, Hertford, Hitchin and Odsey. Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror, that was like a census by the government today. ... A hundred is an administrative division which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller geographical units. ... Tring is a small market town in the Chiltern Hills in Hertfordshire, England with a population 13,000. ... This is an article about The Borough of Dacorum. ...

Hertfordshire is the starting point of the New River: a man made waterway, opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water. There are also other rivers called the New River New Gauge where water leaves the River Lea at the start of the New River The New River is a man-made waterway in England, opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water. ... Events January - Galileo observes Neptune, but mistakes it for a star and so is not credited with its discovery. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...

Hertfordshire lost Barnet to Greater London in 1965, but gained Potters Bar and South Mimms from Middlesex. High Barnet or Chipping Barnet is a place in the London Borough of Barnet. ... Greater London is the top level administrative subdivision covering London, England. ... Potters Bar is a town in Hertfordshire, England, just north of London. ... South Mimms is a location in Hertfordshire that was originally part of the traditional county of Middlesex Categories: UK geography stubs | Middlesex | Hertfordshire ... Middlesex as a traditional county before 1888. ...

Geology

Main article: Geology of Hertfordshire. The rocks of the English county of Hertfordshire belong to the great shallow syncline known as the London basin, the beds dip in a south-easterly direction towards the synclines lowest point roughly under the River Thames. ...

The rocks of Hertfordshire belong to the great shallow syncline known as the London basin. The beds dip in a south-easterly direction towards the syncline's lowest point roughly under the River Thames. The most important formations are the Cretaceous Chalk, which is exposed as the high ground in the north and west of the county and the younger Palaeocene, Reading Beds and Eocene, London Clay which occupy the remaining southern part. The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays. In geology, a syncline is an area of rock deformation that involves an upward slope to either side. ... Length 346 km Elevation of the source 110 m Average discharge  ? m³/s Area watershed 12935 km² Origin Kemble Mouth North Sea Basin countries England This article is about the River Thames in southern England. ... The Cretaceous period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic period (about 135 mya) to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch of the Tertiary period (65 mya). ... The Needles, part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation Chalk is a soft, white, porous form of limestone composed of the mineral calcium carbonate. ... The Eocene epoch (56-34 MYA) is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the Cenozoic era. ... The London Clay is a marine deposit which is well known for the fossils it contains. ...

Urban areas

These are the main towns in Hertfordshire. For a complete list of settlements see list of places in Hertfordshire. This is a list of settlements in Hertfordshire, England. ...

• Baldock, Berkhamsted, Bishop's Stortford.
• Borehamwood
• Cheshunt, Chorleywood.
• Harpenden, Hatfield, Hemel Hempstead, Hertford Hitchin, Hoddesdon.
• Letchworth Garden City.
• Potters Bar.
• Rickmansworth, Royston
• Sawbridgeworth, Stevenage, St Albans
• Tring
• Ware, Watford, Welwyn Garden City.

Location within the British Isles. ... Arms of Berkhamstead Town Council Berkhamsted (since 1937, former spellings include Berkhampstead, or Berkhamstead, and also known colloquially as Berko) is a historic town of some 19,000 people, situated in the west of Hertfordshire, to the north-west of London, UK. It is in the administrative district of Dacorum. ... Location within the British Isles. ... For the village in Essex, see Boreham. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Chorleywood is a town in United Kingdom, with a population of around 9,500 people. ... Harpenden is a town in City and District of St Albans, Hertfordshire. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Hemel Hempstead is a town in Hertfordshire, England with a population of 81,143 at the 2001 Census. ... This article is about Hertford in England. ... Hitchin is a town in Hertfordshire, England. ... Hoddesdon is a commuter town in the English county of Hertfordshire, situated in the Lea Valley. ... Arms of Letchworth Urban District Council Letchworth, officially Letchworth Garden City, is a town in Hertfordshire, England. ... Potters Bar is a town in Hertfordshire, England, just north of London. ... Location within the British Isles. ... This article is about Royston, Hertfordshire. ... Categories: Stub | Towns in Hertfordshire ... Stevenage is a town and district in Hertfordshire, England, and is part of the London Commuter Belt. ... St Albans (thus spelt, no apostrophe or dot) is the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans in southern Hertfordshire, England, around 22 miles (35. ... Tring is a small market town in the Chiltern Hills in Hertfordshire, England with a population 13,000. ... This article is about the English town. ... Watford is a town and district (styled as borough) in Hertfordshire, England about 20 miles northwest of the centre of London. ... Location within the British Isles. ...

Places of interest

• Aldenham Country Park
• Beech Bottom Dyke, St Albans - large scale iron age defensive or boundary ditch
• Berkhamstead Castle
• De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, Salisbury Hall, between London Colney and South Mimms
• Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, St Albans - a claimant to being the oldest pub in Britian.
• Hatfield House : Jacobean house, gardens and park
• Knebworth House - 250 acres (1.0 km²) of country park, venue of regular rock and pop festivals.
• St Albans Cathedral
• Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence, home of George Bernard Shaw.
• The Six Hills Roman site in Stevenage.
• Stevenage, the first UK New Town
• Sopwell Nunnery, St Albans
• The University of Hertfordshire was created from Hatfield Polytechnic which originated in Hatfield.
• Verulamium Roman town remains at St Albans

Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ... Ruinous flint walls, keepers house, castle mound in background Berkhamstead (or Berkhamsted) Castle in Hertfordshire had a leading role in English medieval history, but very little is now to be seen, the ruins having passed into the care of English Heritage. ... London Colney is a village in Hertfordshire, England. ... South Mimms is a location in Hertfordshire that was originally part of the traditional county of Middlesex Categories: UK geography stubs | Middlesex | Hertfordshire ... Hatfield House stands to the east of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, was built in 1611 and is the family seat of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury. ... The term Jacobean refers to a period in English history that coincides with the reign of James I (1603 – 1625). ... Knebworth House is a stately home near Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England. ... St Albans Cathedral from the west. ... Shaws Corner was the home of playwright George Bernard Shaw from 1906 until his death in 1950. ... Ayot St Lawrence is a small village in Hertfordshire, between Harpenden and Welwyn. ... George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. ... The Six Hills, April 2004 The Six Hills are a collection of Roman barrows situated alongside the Great North Road in Stevenage, Hertfordshire UK. They are classed as a Scheduled Ancient Monument and are protected by law. ... Principal sites in Roman Britain Roman Britain is the term applied to the historical period when Britain was under Roman rule, usually considered AD 44 to 410. ... Stevenage is a town and district in Hertfordshire, England, and is part of the London Commuter Belt. ... A New town or planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was designed from scratch, and grew up more or less following the plan. ... The University of Hertfordshire is a modern university based largely in Hatfield, in the county of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, from which the university takes its name. ... The University of Hertfordshire is a modern university based largely in Hatfield, in the county of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, from which the university takes its name. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Remains of the city walls Verulamium was the third largest city in Roman Britain. ...