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Hertford, town (1991 pop. 21,350), E central England, on the Lea River. Hertford is an agricultural market with light industries, including brewing, flour milling, and the manufacture of leather goods and stationery. It was important even in Saxon times; there, in 672, the archbishop of Canterbury convened the first national church council. Near Hertford is one of England's leading schools, Haileybury College, founded in 1862. The school merged with the Imperial Service College in 1942. HertfordTown (pop., 1995 est.: 23,000), East Hertfordshire district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, southeastern England. Located on the northern periphery of London, Hertford was first recorded as the scene of a general synod led by Theodore of Tarsus in AD 672. The oldest buildings extant are 15th-century timber-framed houses. The town has light engineering industries and many agricultural connections. It is the county's administrative centre. Hertford a town in SE England, administrative centre of Hertfordshire. Pop.: 24 460 (2001) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Why, lads, did I not meet that mad wag Simon of Ely, even at the famous fair at Hertford Town, and beat him in the ring at that place before Sir Robert of Leslie and his lady? So the next week a countrywoman was brought from Hertford, or thereabouts, who was to take the child off our hands entirely for #10 in money. After visiting the National Gallery, or Hertford House, or hearing Brahms or Beethoven at the Bechstein Hall, she would come back to find a new person awaiting her, in whose soul were imbedded some grains of the invaluable substance which she still called reality, and still believed that she could find. |
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