CONTENTS

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[1.]County and Shire. The Name Hertfordshire. Its Origin and Meaning[1]
[2.]General Characteristics of the County[4]
[3.]Size. Shape. Boundaries[8]
[4.]Surface and General Features[10]
[5.]Watershed. Rivers[16]
[6.]Geology and Soil[25]
[7.]Natural History[38]
[8.]Climate and Rainfall[50]
[9.]People—Race, Dialect, Settlements, Population[57]
[10.]Agriculture—Main Cultivations, Woodlands, Stock[62]
[11.]Special Cultivations[67]
[12.]Industries and Manufactures[70]
[13.]Minerals—An Exhausted Industry[74]
[14.]History of Hertfordshire[76]
[15.]Antiquities—Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon[87]
[16.]Architecture. (a) Ecclesiastical—Abbeys and Churches[97]
[17.]Architecture. (b) Military—Castles[109]
[18.]Architecture. (c) Domestic—Famous Seats, Manor Houses, Cottages[114]
[19.]Communications—Past and Present. Roads, Railways, Canals[125]
[20.]Administration and Divisions—Ancient and Modern[135]
[21.]The Roll of Honour of the County[141]
[22.]The Chief Towns and Villages of Hertfordshire[151]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Modern Hertfordshire: Station Road, Letchworth[4]
Ancient Hertfordshire: Thatched Cottages, Harpenden[5]
An Old Farm-House near Wheathampstead[7]
A Typical Hertfordshire Village: Much Hadham[12]
Bancroft, Hitchin[15]
Netting the Gade, Cassiobury Park[21]
Bishop’s Stortford[24]
View on the Downs looking towards Wallington from the Icknield Way[32]
Six Hills, Stevenage (Danish Barrows)[39]
Tring Park[46]
French Row, St Albans[60]
Ancient House at Welwyn, now the Police Station[62]
A Hertfordshire Farm near Rickmansworth[64]
A Lavender Field, Hitchin[69]
Moor Park, near Rickmansworth[72]
Canal and Lock, Rickmansworth[73]
Monastery Gateway, St Albans[77]
The Staircase, Hatfield House[83]
Cassiobury[84]
The Rye House: Portions of the Servants’ Quarters[86]
Palaeolithic Flint Implement[89]
Neolithic Celt of Greenstone[89]
The Devil’s Dyke, Marford[92]
Ancient Causeway, Verulam (St Albans)[93]
Roman Wall in St Germans’ Meadow, Verulam[94]
St Albans’ Abbey from the south side[95]
St Peter’s, Tewin[99]
St Mary’s, Cheshunt[100]
St Helen’s, Wheathampstead[101]
St Mary’s, Hemel Hempstead[102]
St Albans’ Abbey[103]
Ruins of Sopwell Nunnery, St Albans[106]
The Priory, Hitchin[107]
Courtyard in the Biggin Almshouses, Hitchin[108]
The Priory, King’s Langley[109]
Hatfield House, South Front[116]
Knebworth House[117]
Water End Farm near Wheathampstead[118]
Christ’s Hospital School, Hertford[119]
The Grammar School, Hitchin[120]
An Old Malting House, Baldock[121]
Chequer’s Yard, Watford[122]
The “Fighting Cocks,” St Albans[123]
Waltham Cross[124]
The Ermine Street at Hertford Heath[126]
The Icknield Way, showing a Ford between Ickleford and Wilbury Hill[127]
High Street, Stevenage[129]
View on the Great North Road, Codicote Village[130]
Watford[131]
The Grand Junction Canal near Hemel Hempstead[133]
Haileybury College[134]
The Shire Hall, Hertford[139]
The Salisbury Statue, Hatfield[143]
Cecil Rhodes’s Birth-place, Bishop’s Stortford[144]
Ruins of Verulam House, the Residence of Francis, Viscount St Albans[145]
Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans[146]
Charles Lamb[148]
William Cowper[149]
Bishop’s Stortford and the River Stort[155]
The College Chapel, Haileybury[157]
Letchworth, Open Air School[162]
Shrine of St Amphibalus, St Albans’ Abbey[165]
Diagrams[170]

MAPS

Hertfordshire,Topographical[Front Cover]
”Geological[Back Cover]
England and Wales, showing Annual Rainfall[55]

CREDITS

The illustrations on pp. [7], [32], [60], [62], [64], [83], [86], [92], [93], [94], [95], [100], [101], [102], [106], [108], [109], [116], [118], [119], [121], [122], [123], [124], [126], [127], [130], [133], [139], and [143] are reproduced from photographs by The Homeland Association, Ltd.; and those on pp. [4], [12], [15], [24], [39], [46], [69], [72], [73], [77], [99], [103], [107], [117], [120], [129], [144], [145], [155], [161], and [165] are from photographs by Messrs F. Frith & Co., Ltd., Reigate. Messrs H. W. Taunt & Co., of Oxford, supplied the views on pp. [21], [84] and [131]; Mr A. Elsden, of Hertford, those on pp. [134] and [157]; and Mr H. Valentine, of Harpenden, the one on p. [5].