A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Hertford. You may be able to find further references to Hertford in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| All Saints | parish and civil parish | Bartholomew |
| Hertford | hundred | Bartholomew |
| HERTFORD | a town, three parishes, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred | Imperial |
| HERTFORD, LUTON, AND DUNSTABLE RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Hertford.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Amwell, Little | liberty | Bartholomew |
| AMWELL. (Little) | a chapelry | Imperial |
| Bengeo Christchurch | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew |
| Brickendon | township | Bartholomew |
| BRICKENDON | a liberty | Imperial |
| Little Berkhampstead | Bartholomew |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Hertford within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
| Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
|---|---|---|
| William Camden | Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 7 |
| Robert Gammage | Becoming a Chartist speaker, and first leaving Northampton in 1840 | 3 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands | 1 |
| Thomas Pennant | Enfield to London | 1 |
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
| Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
|---|---|---|
| Waterford | 0 | 1 |
| Little Amwell | 0 | 2 |
| Brickendon | 0 | 2 |
| Ware | 18 | 2 |
| Bengeo | 0 | 3 |
| Hertingfordbury | 0 | 2 |
| Bramfield | 0 | 3 |
| Stapleford | 0 | 2 |
| Great Amwell | 0 | 2 |
| Haileybury | 0 | 2 |
| Stanstead St Margaret | 0 | 3 |
| Bayford | 0 | 2 |
| Little Berkhampstead | 0 | 3 |
| Tewin | 0 | 2 |
| Sacombe | 0 | 2 |
| Broxbourne | 0 | 2 |
| Hoddesdon | 3 | 2 |
| Thundridge | 0 | 2 |
| Rye House | 0 | 2 |
| Watton At Stone | 0 | 2 |