Ware
Ware is a town in Hertfordshire. The site has been occupied since at least 4000 BC. The Romans had a settlement at Ware. Ware is said to be one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in Europe. It has become a commuting town for London.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 18,000 residents
- Description: town in Hertfordshire, England
- Also known as: “Ware Urban” and “Ware, Hertfordshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hertford Regional College and Scott’s Grotto.
Hertford Regional College
College
Photo: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hertford Regional College is a further education college located over two sites in Hertfordshire, England.
Scott’s Grotto
Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Scott's Grotto in Ware, Hertfordshire, is a Grade I listed building and with six chambers the most extensive shell grotto in the United Kingdom. "It is, although on a small scale, far more complex than Alexander Pope's at Twickenham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hertford and Hertford Heath.
Hertford
Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hertford is the county town of Hertfordshire 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 Hartford, Connecticut.
Hertford Heath
Village
Photo: S Marshall, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hertford Heath is a village and civil parish near the county town of Hertford in Hertfordshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 2,672.
Stanstead Abbotts
Village
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stanstead Abbotts is a village and civil parish in the district of East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, England; it lies on the county boundary with Essex. Stanstead Abbotts is situated 2½ miles southeast of Ware.
Ware
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: East Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.8109° or 51° 48′ 39″ northLongitude
-0.0312° or 0° 1′ 52″ westPopulation
18,000Elevation
118 feet (36 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WAROpen location code
9C3XRX69+9GOpenStreetMap ID
node 20972753OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Ware from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Ware” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ور”
- Asturian: “Ware”
- Basque: “Ware (Hertfordshire)”
- Basque: “Ware”
- Bengali: “ওয়ের”
- Catalan: “Ware”
- Cebuano: “Ware”
- Central Kurdish: “وەیر”
- Chinese: “威尔”
- Chinese: “威爾”
- Chinese: “瓦尔”
- Chinese: “瓦爾”
- Chinese: “韋爾”
- Chinese: “韦尔”
- Dutch: “Ware”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ور”
- Esperanto: “Ware”
- French: “Ware”
- German: “Ware”
- Gujarati: “વેર”
- Irish: “Ware, Hertfordshire”
- Irish: “Ware”
- Italian: “Ware”
- Japanese: “ウェア”
- Kannada: “ವೇರ್”
- Korean: “워”
- Ladin: “Ware (Hertfordshire)”
- Ladin: “Ware”
- Lithuanian: “Veris”
- Macedonian: “Вер”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ware”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ware”
- Norwegian: “Ware”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ware”
- Persian: “ور، هرتفوردشر”
- Polish: “Ware”
- Portuguese: “Ware”
- Romanian: “Ware, Hertfordshire”
- Romanian: “Ware”
- Russian: “Уэр”
- Silesian: “Ware (Hertfordshire)”
- Silesian: “Ware”
- South Azerbaijani: “ور، هرتفوردشر”
- Spanish: “Ware”
- Swedish: “Ware”
- Tamil: “வார்”
- Telugu: “వేర్”
- Turkish: “Ware, Hertfordshire”
- Urdu: “واری”
- Volapük: “Ware”
- Welsh: “Ware, Swydd Hertford”
- Welsh: “Ware”
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