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Watford District

Watford

Watford is a large town in , a few miles from the Greater London boundary. It is around 20 minutes from central London using National Rail trains, and slightly longer on the London Underground and Overground networks.
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  • Type: Town with 120,000 residents
  • Description: town in Hertfordshire, England
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vicarage Road and Watford High Street Railway Station.

Stadium
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is a stadium in Watford, England, and is the home stadium of Championship club Watford. An all-seater stadium, its current capacity is 22,200.

Railway station
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Watford High Street is a station on the Lioness line of the London Overground, located in the centre of Watford, . It is the only station on the sole deviation of the Watford DC line away from the West Coast Main Line, situated between and stations.

Railway station
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Bushey is an interchange station in which serves and Oxhey. It is located on an embankment where the Watford DC line, operated as the Lioness line of the London Overground, diverges from the West Coast Main Line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bushey and Garston.

Town
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is a town in the borough of in the . It had a population of 25,328 in the 2011 census, rising to 28,416 in the 2021 census, an increase of 12.19%.

Suburb
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is a suburban village in , England. is contiguous with Watford and now, despite retaining a local identity, is effectively a suburb. is situated 2 miles north of Watford.

Village
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is both a and a suburb of in , England. It is also a civil parish. Located on the A412 between Watford to the north-east and Rickmansworth to the south-west, it is approximately 20 miles north-west of central . is situated 2 miles west of Watford.

Watford

Latitude
51.6554° or 51° 39′ 19″ north
Longitude
-0.3957° or 0° 23′ 45″ west
Population
120,000
Elevation
253 feet (77 metres)
IATA airport code
WXF
United Nations Location Code
GB WAF
Open location code
9C3XMJ43+5P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20992523
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2634677
Wiki­data ID
Q2598
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Watford” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “واتفورد”
  • Aragonese: “Watford”
  • Armenian: “Ուոթֆորդ”
  • Asturian: “Watford”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uotford”
  • Bashkir: “Уотфорд”
  • Basque: “Watford”
  • Belarusian: “Уотфард”
  • Belarusian: “Ўотфард”
  • Bengali: “ওয়াটফোর্ড”
  • Bosnian: “Watford”
  • Bulgarian: “Уотфорд”
  • Catalan: “Watford”
  • Cebuano: “Watford”
  • Chinese: “Watford”
  • Chinese: “屈福”
  • Chinese: “屈福特”
  • Chinese: “沃特福德”
  • Chinese: “華特福特”
  • Czech: “Watford”
  • Danish: “Watford”
  • Dutch: “Watford”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “واتفورد”
  • Esperanto: “Watford”
  • Faroese: “Watford”
  • Finnish: “Watford”
  • French: “Watford”
  • Georgian: “უოტფორდი”
  • German: “Watford”
  • Greek: “Γουότφορντ”
  • Gujarati: “વોટફોર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “ווטפורד”
  • Hebrew: “וטפורד”
  • Hungarian: “Watford”
  • Icelandic: “Watford”
  • Indonesian: “Watford”
  • Irish: “Watford”
  • Italian: “Watford”
  • Japanese: “ワトフォード”
  • Kannada: “ವ್ಯಾಟ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “와트퍼드”
  • Korean: “왓퍼드”
  • Ladin: “Watford”
  • Latin: “Watfordia”
  • Latvian: “Votforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Votfordas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Watford”
  • Malagasy: “Watford”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Watford”
  • Northern Frisian: “Watford”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Watford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Watford”
  • Norwegian: “Watford”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Watford”
  • Persian: “واتفورد”
  • Polish: “Watford”
  • Portuguese: “Watford”
  • Romanian: “Watford”
  • Russian: “Уотфорд”
  • Scots: “Watford”
  • Serbian: “Вотфорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Watford”
  • Silesian: “Watford”
  • Slovenian: “Watford”
  • Spanish: “Watford”
  • Swahili: “Watford”
  • Swedish: “Watford”
  • Tamil: “இஸ்டாவ்”
  • Tamil: “வாட்ஃபோர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Вотфорд”
  • Telugu: “వాట్ఫోర్డ్”
  • Turkish: “Watford”
  • Ukrainian: “Вотфорд”
  • Urdu: “واٹفورڈ”
  • Volapük: “Watford”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Watford”
  • Welsh: “Watford”
  • Yue Chinese: “屈福”

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