Esterhazy retired from the military with the rank of Major in 1898 — presumably under pressure — and fled by way of Brussels to the United Kingdom, where he lived in the village of Harpenden in Hertfordshire until his death in 1923.

From ' Milton Road ' in the village of Harpenden, he continued to write in anti-Semitic papers such as La Libre Parole until his death in 1923.

The central area of Harpenden, known locally as " the village " is characterised by Church Green, Leyton Green and the High Street Greens, which give the town its provincial feel.

Redbourn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, lying on Watling Street, 3 miles from Harpenden, 4 miles from St Albans and 5 miles from Hemel Hempstead.

Ayot St Lawrence is a small village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, between Harpenden and Welwyn.

Prior to 1997 Hitchin was included in the North Hertfordshire constituency and Harpenden in the St Albans constituency, while the village of Wheathampstead was part of the Welwyn Hatfield constituency.

A widespread but now little-known industry of Harpenden was straw-weaving, a trade mainly carried out by women in the nineteenth century.

In his History of Hertfordshire in 1879, John Edwin Cussans commented " Notwithstanding that these meetings are under the most unexceptional patronage as regards the Stewards, yet for two days in the year all the London pickpockets, sharpers and blackguards who happen to be out of gaol are permitted to make Harpenden their own and to make travelling in a first-class carriage on the Midland Railway a danger to men and an impossibility to ladies.

Up to the 13th century the area of the parish consisted of woodland with small hamlets and single farmsteads around cleared areas called " End " or " Green " and there are 19 Ends and 18 Greens in area of Harpenden and Wheathampstead parishes.

When she was fourteen, she and her family moved to Harpenden, and two years later, she left home for London and became involved in the punk scene of the late 1970s.

With him she retreated to a house, Pigeonwick, in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, retiring for six years from acting.

It is within the Hitchin and Harpenden constituency for representation in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Land Registry data suggests that the average house price in Harpenden in the 1st quarter of 2006 was £ 500, 902 ( against £ 287, 277 for St Albans District generally, and £ 183, 598 nationally ).

There are Roman remains in land around Harpenden, for instance the site of a mausoleum in the park at Rothamsted.

However, Harpenden was not totally confident in its safety, as evidenced by the now decaying Bowers Parade air raid shelters, soon to be secured for the future.

Just to the south of the town centre is Harpenden Common, stretching from the shops in the town centre for more than a mile to the south, encompassing a total of.

Today Harpenden Common hosts two cricket clubs, a football club, bridle ways for horse riding, ramblers ' paths and Harpenden Common Golf Club, all contained in an area of natural beauty which was awarded a national Green Flag Award in 2007.

Harpenden Town Council is keen to help retain and maintain the environment and oversees habitat issues including bird and bat watching, the maintenance / regeneration of gorse, fungi and all the original wildlife ( fauna and flora ) for the benefit of the people of Harpenden.

This partnership has enabled the people of Harpenden to take full advantage of the common for all kinds of leisure activities, and the relationship of the golfers and others users has been excellent for many years.

He did work placements at Rothamsted Experimental Station in Harpenden and at Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in Liverpool, before studying for a PhD awarded by the University of Strathclyde for researching natural isotopic abundances of elements to enable prediction of soil development when at the Natural Environment Research Council's radiocarbon laboratory, in the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre, East Kilbride.

* Kathryn Campbell – teaches history at the Harpenden College for Women

The Nicky Line ( also sometimes spelled Nickey Line ) is the local nickname for the railway that once linked the English towns of Hemel Hempstead and Harpenden via Redbourn.

It provided a link for the straw plait trade that existed in Hemel with the hat making centre of Luton, and this is reflected in the fact that the initial connection at Harpenden headed north towards Luton rather than south towards London.

The line between Cupid Green and Harpenden was privately owned by the Hemelite company from 1968, and was used to transport raw materials for manufacturing building blocks via Harpenden to their works at Cupid Green.

Suggestions range from being named for the parish of St. Nicholas in Harpenden, through which it runs, to Hemel's connection with Nicholas Breakspear.

After seeking, but failing, to be readopted as a local councillor in the London Borough of Enfield, where he had been previously been Deputy Leader of the Council, he joined the Labour Party in 1994, giving an exculpatory interview to The Spectator magazine, and in the 2001 general election fought the Hitchin and Harpenden constituency for Labour, coming second to the Conservatives ' Peter Lilley.

He attended St. George's School in Harpenden and on a school visit to the National Gallery, London in 1933 saw paintings by Paul Cézanne for the first time.

Coincidentally, Lilley lies within the parliamentary constituency of Hitchin and Harpenden currently represented by Peter Lilley.

The Midland Railway built a branch line connecting to its mainline at Harpenden in 1877 ( see The Nicky Line ).

Harpenden has a large number of its streets named after English literary figures on the East side of the town ( an area known, unsurprisingly, as the Poets ' Corner ), including Byron Road, Cowper Road, Kipling Way, Milton Road, Shakespeare Road, Spenser Road, Shelley Court, Tennyson Road, Townsend Road, Masefield Road and Wordsworth Road.

There are multiple restaurants, mainly of Italian origin, and many pubs ; both in central Harpenden and in its suburbs.

One notable feature of Harpenden is its abundant parks and commons.

The straw plait trade declined, and in order to help the line pay its way the junction at Harpenden was realigned in 1886 so that it headed south instead of north, and passengers now changed trains at Harpenden Junction.

St George's School, Harpenden ( also known as St George's Academy or just St George's ) is a traditional day and boarding school in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, educating students of both genders between the ages of eleven and eighteen, with an emphasis on its Christian ethos.

Harpenden and Wheathampstead is the District

Up until 1859, Wheathampstead and Harpenden were part of a single rectory.

When the constituency was created in 1885, it also included High Barnet, Borehamwood, Elstree, Welwyn, Wheathampstead, and Harpenden, all of which were transferred to other constituencies at subsequent boundary redistributions.

As well as the towns of Hitchin and Harpenden themselves, the constituency also includes Wheathampstead and a number of villages.

* From St Albans: Harpenden East, Harpenden North, Harpenden South, Harpenden West, Redbourn, Sandridge and Wheathampstead.

Childwickbury Manor is a manor in Hertfordshire, England, between St Albans and Harpenden.

John Bennet Lawes was born at Rothamsted in modern-day Harpenden near St Albans, Hertfordshire, the only son of John Bennet Lawes, owner of the Rothamsted estate of somewhat more than 1000 acres ( 4 km² ) and lord of the manor of Rothamsted.

* Rothamsted Manor, a former manor near Harpenden in English county of Hertfordshire.