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Hertfordshire
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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire
Geography
Status: Ceremonial & Administrative County
Region: East of England
Area:
- Total
- Admin. council 		Ranked 36th
1,643 km²
Ranked 32nd
Admin HQ: Hertford
: GB-HRT
ONS code: 26
NUTS 3: UKH23
Demographics
Population:
- Total (2002 est.)
- Density
- Admin. council 		Ranked 16th
1,036,144
631 / 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
Barbara Follett, Claire Ward, James Clappison, Kerry Pollard, Marion Roe, Mark Prisk, Melanie Johnson, Oliver Heald, Peter Lilley, Richard Page, Tony McWalter
Districts
  1. Three Rivers
  2. Watford
  3. Hertsmere
  4. Welwyn Hatfield
  5. Broxbourne
  6. East Hertfordshire
  7. Stevenage
  8. North Hertfordshire
  9. St Albans
  10. Dacorum

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 sea level, a quarter mile from the village of Hastoe.

The county motto is "Trust and Fear Not".

Table of contents
1 History
2 Geology
3 Towns, cities and villages
4 Places of interest

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.

Geology

Main article: see Geology of Hertfordshire.

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.

Towns, cities and villages

Places of interest


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