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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  • Town with 120,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 253 feet (77 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code WXF
  • 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…

Railway station
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Watford High Street is a station on the Lioness line…

Railway station
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Bushey is an interchange station in which serves and Oxhey.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bushey and Cassiobury.

Town
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is a town in the borough of in the .

Quarter
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The Estate is a suburban residential area of Watford in , .

Suburb
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is a suburban village in , England. is situated 2 miles north of Watford.

Watford

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Latitude
51.6554° or 51° 39′ 19″ north
Longitude
-0.3957° or 0° 23′ 45″ west
UN/LOCODE
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: “和福”
  • 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”
  • Western Armenian: “Ուաթֆորտ”
  • Yue Chinese: “屈福”

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