GENUKI: Hertford, Hertfordshire

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"Hertford is a market town, and borough both corporate and parliamentary, possessing separate jurisdiction, locally in the hundred of its name - 21 miles N. from London, 28 S.S.E. from Bedford, 32 S. from Cambridge, and the like distance S. by W. from Chelmsford; pleasantly situated on the River Lea, which is navigable to the town for small craft. "The opinions of etymologists and historians are at variance with respect to the origins of its modern name: according to the venerable Bede it is derived from Herud-ford, or 'Red-ford', an appellation acquired from a sanguinary battle fought on its site; while others deduce it from Here-ford, a 'military ford.' The corporate seal, however, represents a hart in the water, and the most prominent feature in the town's arms is a hart couchant: in ancient times the neighbourhood abounded with deer - and it may hence be inferred (an inference coincident with existing tradition), that its name originated from Hart and ford - imperceptibly changed to HERTFORD." [From Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of Herts, Pigot & Co., London, 1839]

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Hertford Parishes

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Cemeteries

Jill Ashby has a Herts Burials and Memorials website which contains over 30,000 photographs of graves and monuments in mid-Hertfordshire, including Essendon, Hatfield, Hertford, Hitchin, Lemsford, Northaw, Potters Bar, Redbourne, Sandridge, St. Albans, Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City, and Wheathampstead.

**Anglican**
All Saints with St John, Hertford, Church of England
St Andrews, Hertford, Church of England

Churches

**Anglican**
All Saints with St John, Hertford, Church of England
St Andrews, Hertford, Church of England

**Baptist**
Hertford Baptist Church, Hertford, Baptist

**Methodist**
Ware Road, Hertford, Methodist

**Roman Catholic**
St Joseph, Hertford, Roman Catholic

Church Records

For Anglican church records see individual Parishes.

Description & Travel

You can see pictures of Hertford which are provided by:

Gazetteers

Ask for a calculation of the distance from Hertford to another place.

Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL323127 (Lat/Lon: 51.797307, -0.082877), Hertford which are provided by:

OpenStreetMap
Google Maps
StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
Bing (was Multimap)
Old Maps Online
National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Military Records

Tracy Turner has put together a website on the Hertford War Memorial (at www.hertfordtown.fsnet.co.uk), which contains some historical notes about the memorial, and the names of the men and women (including civilians) commemorated there from WWI and WWII.
She is putting together a book on the memorial for publication, and would therefore be pleased to hear from the relatives and descendants of those commemorated.
The Web site appears not have had any activity since July 2008 but can be found on the Wayback Machine