Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire (pronounced 'Hartfordshire') is an inland county, officially part of the East of England Government region.It is located to the north of Greater London, bordering the London boroughs (from west to east) of 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.
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 current administrative districts of Hertfordshire are (approximately north to south):
- North Hertfordshire
- East Hertfordshire
- Stevenage
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Dacorum
- St Albans
- Broxbourne
- Three Rivers
- Hertsmere
- Watford
Towns, cities and villages
- Albury
- Apsley
- Ashwell
- Berkhamstead
- Bishop's Stortford
- Broxbourne
- Hatfield
- Hemel Hempstead
- Hertford
- Hertford Heath
- Hitchin
- Hoddesdon
- Holwell
- Langley
- Letchworth Garden City
- Long Marston
- Mill End
- New Mill
- Royston
- Stevenage
- St Albans
- Watford
- Welwyn Garden City
