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Hertfordshire varies: the east Herts accent is akin to the native Essex, while west Herts and neighbouring Bedfordshire shares elements with West Country accents and south Midlands accentsagain with strong influences from London accents thanks to the influx of post-WW2 migrants from London.
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Hertfordshire and east
Hertfordshire is one of the home counties and is bordered by the non-metropolitan counties of Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the northeast, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west.
To the east of Hertfordshire is Essex, to the west is Buckinghamshire and to the north are Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
The Wimseys honeymoon at Talboys, a house in east Hertfordshire near where Harriet had lived as a child, that Peter has bought for her as a wedding present.
It borders Hertfordshire to the north and five other London boroughs: Harrow and Brent to the west, Camden and Haringey to the south-east and Enfield to the east.
It borders Hertfordshire to the north and other London boroughs: Hillingdon to the west, Ealing to the south, Brent to the south-east and Barnet to the east.
Following the building of Borehamwood, Middlesex, 12 miles north-west of central London, the first in a ring of major " first generation " New Towns around London ( 1946 ) were Stevenage, Hertfordshire, 27 miles to the north of London, and Basildon, Essex, 25 miles east of London along the River Thames.
Hertfordshire built four other new towns, two in the vicinity of Stevenage ( Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield ), a third to the north called Letchworth, and Hemel Hempstead to the east.
The Rhee begins just off the High Street ( Ashwell Springs ), Ashwell in Hertfordshire running north then east through the farmland of southern Cambridgeshire.
In Nottinghamshire, north-west Essex and east Hertfordshire, twichell is common.
In some places, especially from the east of Luton in Bedfordshire to Ickleford ( so named from the Way crossing a stream ) near Hitchin in Hertfordshire, the route is followed by minor roads, and is not distinguishable at all in many places, except by landscape features such as barrows and mounds which line the route, and indentation presumably from ancient and frequent use.
It is 3 miles east of Wendover and 4 miles south of Tring, Hertfordshire.
It is in the east of the county, near the border boundary Hertfordshire, about six miles from Aylesbury and two miles from Tring.
It is about two miles north of Tring, in Hertfordshire and six miles east of Aylesbury.
The parish bounds to the south of the Buckinghamshire border, and to the east is the Hertfordshire border.
It runs from the A41 at a junction west of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, through the town to junction 8 of the M1 motorway at Buncefield, and running parallel to the M1 until junction 7, heading south of St Albans, east through Hatfield, Hertford, then across the A10 and into Essex through Harlow, Chipping Ongar and Chelmsford before terminating at Maldon.
It provided local, suburban and express services from Liverpool Street station in the City of London to destinations in the railway franchise known as the Greater Anglia network, stretching from north and east Greater London to Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk in the East of England ( East Anglia ).
At one point the boundary was the line of the main road itself ; Hertfordshire to the east and Bedfordshire to the west.
The station opened on 15 September 1840 as Tottenham, on the Northern & Eastern Railway ( N & ER ) line from in east London to in Hertfordshire.
This meant many of the settlements in Hertfordshire were abandoned, particularly in the north and east of the county where farm yields were poor.
* 5 July-Cecil John Rhodes, businessman, mining magnate and politician, is born in Bishop's Stortford, east Hertfordshire, England
Walsworth was originally a village about a mile north east of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England.
Graveley is a village and civil parish about four miles east of Hitchin and two miles north of Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England.
It lies at the east side of the current village of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England.
Hertfordshire and Herts
Hertfordshire (, or ; abbreviated Herts ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
It was administered by the South Herts Division of Hertfordshire County Council, until 1965 when it became part of the borough of Barnet.
It is opposed by Hertfordshire County Council, East Herts Council, Mark Prisk, MP for Hertford, and Stortford in whose constituency the development would be and all the parishes concerned.
The title portfolio included the Hampstead & Highgate Express, the South Essex Recorder series, the Hertfordshire | Herts Advertiser series, the Comet series, the Herald group and the Welwyn & Hatfield Times.
* Herts Herald — East Hertfordshire
* North Herts Comet Series — North Hertfordshire
* North Herts Herald — North Hertfordshire
The university then joined forces with four associate colleges across the county-Hertford Regional College, North Hertfordshire College, Oaklands College, and West Herts College-to make higher education more locally accessible to people.
BBC Three Counties Radio is the BBC Local Radio service for the English counties of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire ( referred to as Beds, Herts and Bucks ).
Garston is home to the British Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and the West Herts Crematorium at Garston is the principal facility for non-burial funerals in the West Hertfordshire area, serving Watford, St Albans and Hemel Hempstead.
Following the 2010 election, every seat in Hertfordshire had a Conservative MP, and South West Herts was the third safest of these.
In 1953 Roger and Buster Frogley transferred the Herts and Essex Aero club from Broxbourne in Hertfordshire to Stapleford.
* Herts, an abbreviation of Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire and accent
His typical persona as an actor was as a countryman, with a strong accent typical of the Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire counties.
Hertfordshire and is
Shaw's home, now called Shaw's Corner, in the small village of Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire is a National Trust property, open to the public.
St Albans is in southern Hertfordshire, England, around 22 miles ( 35 km ) north of London, beside the site of a Catuvellauni settlement and the Roman town of Verulamium and on the River Ver.
Hatfield is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield.
The University of Hertfordshire is based there.
For statistical purposes it is part of the region of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire ( code UKH2 ) at the level of NUTS 2.
There is evidence of human beings living in Hertfordshire since the Middle Stone Age.
His martyr's cross of a yellow saltire on a blue background is reflected in the flag and coat of arms of Hertfordshire as the yellow background to the stag or Hart representing the county.
He is the Patron Saint of Hertfordshire.
Hertfordshire is located immediately to the north of Greater London and is part of the East of England Government Office Region.
The London Underground ( often shortened to the Underground ) is a rapid transit system in the United Kingdom, serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex.
Policing the road is carried out by an integrated policing group made up of the Metropolitan, Thames Valley, Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire and Surrey forces.
The Cheshunt line is notable as it was the world's first monorail to carry passengers, as well as the first railway line to be opened in Hertfordshire.
It is generally believed that Nicholas Breakspear was born at Breakspear Farm in the parish of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire and received his early education at the Abbey School, St Albans ( St Albans School ).
Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.
Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans, Hertfordshire, holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest pub in England, as it is an 11th century structure on an 8th century site.
Act II moves to Jack ’ s country house, the Manor House in Woolton, Hertfordshire, where Cecily is found studying with her governess, Miss Prism.
* The New River is opened, to supply London with drinking water from Hertfordshire.
Renfrew was educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire ( where one of the houses is named after him ) and from 1956 to 1958 did National Service in the Royal Air Force.
All of Hertfordshire and Suffolk is now Conservative.
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