East of England
Hertfordshire
East Hertfordshire District

Hertford

Hertford is the county town of in England and has a population of around 29,000 in 2021. It was the birthplace of Samuel Stone, who is credited with being the founder of , Connecticut.
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  • Type: Town with 25,800 residents
  • Description: county town of Hertfordshire, England
  • Also known as: “Hertford, England” and “Hertford, Hertfordshire”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Hertford Castle and Hertford East railway station.

Castle
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is a Norman era castle built beside the in Hertford, the county town of , . Most of the internal buildings of the structure have been demolished.

Railway station
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is the northern terminus of the Hertford East branch line off the West Anglia Main Line in the , and is located in the town of Hertford in Hertfordshire.

Railway station
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is one of two stations serving the town of Hertford in , England, the other being .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ware and Hertford Heath.

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is a town in . The site has been occupied since at least 4000 BC. The Romans had a settlement at . is said to be one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in Europe. It has become a commuting town for London.

Village
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is a village and civil parish near the county town of Hertford in , England. The population at the 2011 Census was 2,672.

Village
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is a small village in Hertfordshire, England, close to the county town of Hertford. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. is also the name of a neighbouring civil parish, which does not contain the village.

Hertford

Latitude
51.7957° or 51° 47′ 45″ north
Longitude
-0.0785° or 0° 4′ 43″ west
Population
25,800
Elevation
148 feet (45 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HEF
Open location code
9C3XQWWC+7H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26282862
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647044
Wiki­data ID
Q9681
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Hertford” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هرتفورد”
  • Asturian: “Hertford”
  • Basque: “Hertford”
  • Belarusian: “Гэртфард”
  • Belarusian: “Хартфард (Хартфардшыр)”
  • Belarusian: “Хартфард”
  • Bengali: “হার্টফোড”
  • Catalan: “Hertford”
  • Cebuano: “Hertford (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Hertfordshire, lat 51,80, long -0,08)”
  • Cebuano: “Hertford”
  • Chinese: “哈特福”
  • Chinese: “賀特福特”
  • Chinese: “贺特福特”
  • Chinese: “赫特福德”
  • Chinese: “赫福”
  • Czech: “Hertford”
  • Danish: “Hertford”
  • Dutch: “Hertford”
  • Esperanto: “Hertford”
  • Finnish: “Hertford”
  • French: “Hertford”
  • Georgian: “ჰერტფორდი”
  • German: “Hertford”
  • Greek: “Χέρτφορντ”
  • Gujarati: “હર્ટફોર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “הרטפורד”
  • Hungarian: “Hertford”
  • Icelandic: “Hertford”
  • Irish: “Hertford”
  • Italian: “Hertford”
  • Japanese: “ハートフォード”
  • Kannada: “ಹರ್ಟ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “하트퍼드”
  • Korean: “허트퍼드”
  • Ladin: “Hertford”
  • Latin: “Hertfordia”
  • Latvian: “Hārtforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Hartfordas”
  • Lithuanian: “Hertfordas”
  • Macedonian: “Хартфорд”
  • Moksha: “Гартфорд”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hertford”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hertford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hertford”
  • Norwegian: “Hertford”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hertford”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Heortford”
  • Persian: “هرتفورد”
  • Polish: “Hertford”
  • Portuguese: “Hertford”
  • Quechua: “Hertford”
  • Romanian: “Hertford”
  • Russian: “Хартфорд”
  • Russian: “Хертфорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hertford”
  • Sicilian: “Hertford”
  • Slovak: “Hertford”
  • Slovenian: “Hertford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هرتفورد”
  • Spanish: “Hertford”
  • Swedish: “Hertford”
  • Tamil: “ஹெர்ட்போர்ட்”
  • Telugu: “హెర్ట్పోర్డ్”
  • Turkish: “Hertford”
  • Ukrainian: “Гартфорд”
  • Urdu: “ہارٹفورڈ”
  • Vietnamese: “Hertford”
  • Volapük: “Hertford”
  • Welsh: “Hertford”
  • “Hertford”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hertford”. Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.