Hertfordshire
Category:Hertfordshire\n
{| border=1 cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" width=300\n|-\n!colspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#ff9999"|Hertfordshire\n|-\n|colspan=2 align=center|
\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Geography\n|-\n|width="45%"|Status:||
Ceremonial &
Administrative County\n|-\n|Region:||
East of England\n|-\n|
Area:
- Total
- Admin. council||
Ranked 36th1,643 km²Ranked 32nd\n|-\n|Admin HQ:||
Hertford\n|-\n|
ISO 3166-2:||GB-HRT\n|-\n|
ONS code:||26\n|-\n|
NUTS 3:||UKH23\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Demographics\n|-\n|
Population:
- Total (
2002 est.)
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Density- Admin. council||
Ranked 16th1,036,144
631 / km²
Ranked 6th\n|-\n|Ethnicity:||93.7% White
3.0% S.Asian
1.1% Afro-Carib.\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Politics\n|-\n|colspan=2 align=center|
Hertfordshire County Council
Members of Parliament\n|-\n|colspan=2|
Barbara Follett,
Claire Ward,
James Clappison,
Kerry Pollard,
Marion Roe,
Mark Prisk,
Melanie Johnson,
Oliver Heald,
Peter Lilley,
Richard Page,
Tony McWalter\n|-\n!colspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Districts\n|-\n|colspan=2|
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Three Rivers\n#
Watford\n#
Hertsmere\n#
Welwyn Hatfield\n#
Broxbourne\n#
East Hertfordshire\n#
Stevenage\n#
North Hertfordshire\n#
St Albans\n#
Dacorum\n|}
Hertfordshire (pronounced 'Hartfordshire' and abbreviated as 'Herts') is an inland
county, officially part of the
East of England Government region. It is one of the
Home Counties.
Hertfordshire is located to the north of
Greater London, and much of the county is part of the
London commuter belt.
To the east of Hertfordshire is
Essex, to the west is
Buckinghamshire and to the north are
Bedfordshire,
Luton and
Cambridgeshire.
The highest point in the county is 803 feet above see level, a quarter mile from the village of Hastoe.
The county motto is
"Trust and Fear Not".
History
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.
The Domesday Book recorded the county as having nine hundredss. Tring and Danais became one, Dacorum. The other seven were Broadwater, Cashio, Edwinstree, Hertford, Hitchin and Odsey.
Hertfordshire is the starting point of the New River: a man made waterway, opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water.
Hertfordshire lost Barnet to Greater London in 1965, but gained Potters Bar and South Mimms from Middlesex.
Towns, cities and villages
\n*Abbots Langley\n*Albury\n*Aldbury\n*Apsley\n*Ashwell\n*Baldock\n*Berkhamstead\n*Bishop's Stortford\n*Bovingdon\n*Broxbourne\n*Bushey\n*Cheshunt\n*Flamstead\n*Hatfield\n*Hemel Hempstead\n*Hertford\n*Hertford Heath\n*Hitchin\n*Hoddesdon\n*Holwell\n*Kings Langley\n*Langley\n*Letchworth Garden City\n*Long Marston\n*Markyate\n*Mill End\n*New Mill\n*Oxhey\n*Potters Bar\n*Preston\n*Redbourn\n*Royston\n*Stevenage\n*St Albans\n*Tring\n*Watford\n*Welwyn Garden City\n*Weston
\nSee also: :Category:Hertfordshire
Places of interest
\n*The University of Hertfordshire was created from the Hatfield Polytechnic which originated in Hatfield.\n*The Six Hills Roman site in Stevenage.\n*Hatfield House : Jacobean house, gardens and park\n*St Albans Cathedral
