Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire [ hɑ ː fədʃə ] (usually as " Herts " for short ) is a county in England, north of London is located. It belongs to the administrative region East of England. In Hertfordshire about 1.1 million people.

Hertfordshire is adjacent to the London boroughs Hillingdon, Harrow, Barnet and Enfield. To the east of Hertfordshire is Essex, to the west is Buckinghamshire and to the north are Bedfordshire, Luton and Cambridgeshire. The majority of the county is occupied by commuters to London. 1965 lost the Hertfordshire village of Barnet in Greater London, and received instead Potters Bar and South Mimms of Middlesex.

Hertfordshire itself was in earlier times only the area that surrounded the fortress of Hertford. It was built under the reign of Edward the Elder 913. The name Hertfordshire appears in records for the first time in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of 1011.

The motto of the county is Trust and Fear Not ( Trust and fear nothing ).

In Hertfordshire the New River, a channel that was created in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water begins.

The highest point of the county is about 270 meters above sea level near the village Hastoe.

December 11, 2005 broke out in a near Hemel Hempstead oil depot located by explosions, a fire, which is considered one of the largest in Europe in peacetime.

Major cities and towns

Attractions

  • The University of Hertfordshire was established from the Polytechnic of Hatfield.
  • The Roman ruins plants Six Hills, Stevenage.
  • The Hatfield House, a Jacobean manor house with large parks
  • The St. Albans Cathedral
Ceremonial counties of England Administrative counties of England Three Rivers (District) Hertsmere Welwyn Hatfield Borough of Broxbourne East Hertfordshire North Hertfordshire City of St Albans Dacorum Counties of England Berkhamsted Hatfield (Hertfordshire) Berkshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire Dorset County Durham Gloucestershire Sussex Westmorland Yorkshire Cumbria East Sussex Borough of Bedford Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton and Hove Bristol Central Bedfordshire Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Borough of Halton Medway Borough of Milton Keynes City of Peterborough Shropshire Council Borough of Stockton-on-Tees Borough of Swindon City of London Greater Manchester Merseyside South Yorkshire West Midlands (county) West Yorkshire
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