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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 hundreds. 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.

In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, Barnet Urban District and East Barnet Urban District were abolished and their area transferred from Hertfordshire to Greater London to form part of the London Borough of Barnet. [1] [2] At the same time the Potters Bar Urban District was directly transferred from Middlesex to Hertfordshire. [3]

From the 1920s until the late 1980s, the town of Borehamwood was home to one of the major British film studio complexes, including the MGM-British Studios. Many well known films were made here, including 2001: A Space Odyssey and the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. Television productions are still made at the nearby Elstree Studios, which were taken over by the BBC. The Order Of The Phoenix, the 5th Harry Potter movie, was filmed in Hertfordshire.

On the morning of 11 December 2005, a large explosion and fire occurred at a petroleum fuel depot near Hemel Hempstead, in Buncefield. Forty three people were injured, luckily nobody was killed, but considerable damage was caused. The two day fire was the largest in peacetime Europe, and a pall of smoke darkened London and much of South East England.

 

Places of interest

Aldenham Country Park

Beech Bottom Dyke, St Albans - large scale iron age defensive or boundary ditch

Berkhamstead Castle

De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, Salisbury Hall, between London Colney and South Mimms

Hatfield House : Jacobean house, gardens and park

Henry Moore Foundation, Much Hadham - Sculpture park on the work of Henry Moore

Knebworth House - 250 acres (1.0 kmē) of country park, venue of regular rock and pop festivals.

St Albans Cathedral

Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence, home of George Bernard Shaw.

The Six Hills Roman site in Stevenage.

Stevenage, the first UK New Town

Sopwell Nunnery, St Albans

The University of Hertfordshire was created from Hatfield Polytechnic which originated in Hatfield.

Verulamium Roman town remains at St Albans

Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, St Albans - a claimant to being the oldest pub in Britain.

Mill Green in Hatfield

 
 
 
 
 
 
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