East of England
Hertfordshire
Welwyn Hatfield

Hatfield

Hatfield is a town in the county of 20 mi north of . It is perhaps best known as the location of Hatfield House, an historic stately home with strong royal connections that include Queen Elizabeth I.
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  • Type: Town with 37,600 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England
  • Also known as: “Bishop’s Hatfield”, “Bishops Hatfield”, and “Hatfield, Hertfordshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hatfield House and Hatfield railway station.

Manor estate
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is a Grade I listed country house set in a large park, the Great Park, on the eastern side of Hatfield, , England. The present Jacobean house, a leading example of the prodigy house, was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to James I.

Railway station
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serves the town of Hatfield in , . The station is managed by Great Northern. It is 17 miles 54 chains measured from on the East Coast Main Line.

Shopping center
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is a designer outlet centre in Hatfield, Hertfordshire in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Colney Heath and Welham Green.

Village
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is a large village in , England. The village became a civil parish in 1947 when the St. Peter Rural parish was split to form and . is situated 2 miles southwest of Hatfield.

Village
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is a in the parish of , , England. It is situated a mile to the west of the Great North Road coaching route that used to run through the neighbouring hamlet of from to and the north.

Suburb
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, sometimes called Bishops Hatfield, is a historic village in the district, in the county of , England. It is in the town of Hatfield.

Hatfield

Latitude
51.7635° or 51° 45′ 49″ north
Longitude
-0.2259° or 0° 13′ 33″ west
Population
37,600
Elevation
276 feet (84 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HAT
Open location code
9C3XQQ7F+9M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27431827
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647349
Wiki­data ID
Q19788
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Hatfield” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هاتفيلد”
  • Armenian: “Հաթֆիլդ”
  • Asturian: “Hatfield”
  • Basque: “Hatfield (Hertfordshire)”
  • Basque: “Hatfield”
  • Belarusian: “Гатфілд”
  • Belarusian: “Хатфілд”
  • Bengali: “হ্যাটফিল্ড”
  • Bulgarian: “Хатфийлд”
  • Catalan: “Hatfield”
  • Cebuano: “Hatfield”
  • Chinese: “克菲路”
  • Chinese: “哈特菲尔德”
  • Chinese: “哈特菲爾德”
  • Czech: “Hatfield”
  • Dutch: “Hatfield”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هاتفيلد”
  • French: “Hatfield”
  • German: “Hatfield”
  • Greek: “Χάτφιλντ”
  • Gujarati: “હોટફીલ્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “האטפילד”
  • Hebrew: “הטפילד”
  • Irish: “Hatfield, Hertfordshire”
  • Irish: “Hatfield”
  • Italian: “Hatfield”
  • Japanese: “ハットフィールド (ハートフォードシャー)”
  • Japanese: “ハットフィールド”
  • Japanese: “ハトフィールド”
  • Kannada: “ಹ್ಯಾಟ್ಫೀಲ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “하트필드”
  • Ladin: “Hatfield”
  • Latin: “Hatfeldia”
  • Latvian: “Hetfīlda”
  • Lithuanian: “Hetfildas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hatfield”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hatfield”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hatfield i Hertfordshire”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hatfield”
  • Persian: “هاتفیلد، هرتفوردشر”
  • Polish: “Hatfield”
  • Portuguese: “Hatfield”
  • Romanian: “Hatfield, Hertfordshire”
  • Romanian: “Hatfield”
  • Russian: “Хатфилд”
  • Silesian: “Hatfield”
  • Slovak: “Hatfield”
  • Slovenian: “Hatfield”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هاتفیلد، هرتفوردشر”
  • Spanish: “Hatfield”
  • Swedish: “Hatfield, Hertfordshire”
  • Swedish: “Hatfield”
  • Tagalog: “Hatfield”
  • Tajik: “Ҳатфилд”
  • Tamil: “ஹட்பீல்ட்”
  • Telugu: “హాట్ఫిల్డ్”
  • Turkish: “Hatfield, Hertfordshire”
  • Turkish: “Hatfield”
  • Urdu: “ہاتفیلڈ”
  • Urdu: “ہیٹفیلڈ، ہارٹفورڈشائر”
  • Volapük: “Hatfield”
  • Welsh: “Hatfield, Swydd Hertford”
  • Welsh: “Hatfield”
  • “Hatfield”

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