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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "HODDESDON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BROXBOURNE, or Broxburn	Hertfordshire	Hoddesdon. Acres, 4,505. Real property, with the rest of Hoddesdon, £11,923. Pop., 2,663. Houses, 541. The property	Imperial
  Flamstead End	Hertfordshire	Flamstead End , hamlet, Cheshunt par., Herts, 3½ miles S. of Hoddesdon.	Bartholomew
  HAILEYBURY, or HALEYBURY	Hertfordshire	Hoddesdon. It comprises 70 acres; was made, in 1805, the site of a college, for the East India Company s cadets	Imperial
  HERTFORDSHIRE, or Herts	Hertfordshire	Hoddesdon, Stevenage, Rickmansworth, and Standon; and there are about 450 villages and hamlets. The chief seats are Hatfield House, Cashiobury	Imperial
  Hoddesdon	Hertfordshire	Hoddesdon , eccl. dist. and vil., Great Amwell and Broxbourn pars., Herts--dist., pop. 2951; vil., 4 miles SE. of Hertford	Bartholomew
  HODDESDON	Hertfordshire	HODDESDON , a town, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Ware district, Herts. The town stands on rising	Imperial
  LEA (THE)	Bedfordshire Essex Hertfordshire Middlesex	Hoddesdon; runs thence southward, on the boundary between Essex on the left and Herts and Middlesex on the right, past	Imperial
  MARGARET (ST.)	Hertfordshire	junction of the London and Hertford line of the Great Eastern railway, with the branch to Buntingford, 2 miles N of Hoddesdon.	Imperial
  NORTHERN and EASTERN railway	Essex Hertfordshire Middlesex	Hoddesdon curvingly west-north-westward to Hertford. It was authorized in 1836; it has a total length of 44 miles	Imperial
  RYE-HOUSE	Hertfordshire	telegraph on the S E border of Herts; on the Hertford branch of the Great Eastern railway, 1 mile N N E of Hoddesdon.	Imperial
  Stort	Essex	between the cos., S. and SW., past Bishop Stortford, Sawbridgeworth, and Roydon, to the Lea near Hoddesdon; is 22 miles long.	Bartholomew
  STORT (The)	Essex Hertfordshire	Herts, mainly southward, partly westward-westward, past Bishop-Stortford, Sawbridgeworth, and Roydon, to the Lea in the vicinity of Hoddesdon.	Imperial
  TURNFORD	Hertfordshire	TURNFORD , a place in the SE of Herts; 2 miles SSW of Hoddesdon.	Imperial
  WARE	Hertfordshire	Hoddesdon sub-districts; and comprises 35,747 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £11,640. Pop. in 1851, 16,482; in 1861, 16,515. Houses	Imperial
  WORMLEY	Hertfordshire	Hoddesdon. Acres, 940. Real property, £2,907. Pop., 572. Houses, 116. The manor was given, by Harold, to Waltham	Imperial

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