Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Travel writing

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