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The New River is an artificial cut, made to convey D'f St. Albans, in the diocese of St. Albans and province water to London; it was begun in r6o8, and runs along of Canterbury, and is divided into the following rural the valley of the Lee, taking its chief supplies from deaneries :-, Barnet, Bennington, , Amwell and Chadwell, two springs near . Bishop Stortford, , Hertford, , St. The Grand Junction Canal comes into Hertfordshire Albans, Ware, ,. and . near , and soon enters the valley of the Gade, and St. Albans, which has been erected into a Cathedral City, had a. population in 1891 of 12,898. Hertford is a afterwards that of the Colne, which it follows through • to West Drayton, passing by Tring, Berkham­ municipal borough, population 7•548. The other towus sted, , Watford and Rickmansworth, are Baldock, population 2,301; Barnet, 5,496; Berkham­ with branches to .Aylesbury and Wendover. sted, 2,135; Bishop Stortford~ 6,595; , g,63o; Hatfield, 4,693; Hemel Hempstead, 4,336; Hitchin, 8,86o; Four main lines, belonging to as many large com­ , 3,650; Rickmansworth, 3,730; Royston, panies, pass t'hrough the county from south to north, 3,319; , 2,150; , 3,309; Tring, viz., the London and North-Western on the western 4,525; Ware, 5,706; Watford, 16,826; Welwyn, 1,745. border, the Midland through the mid-west portion, the Great NO'rthern through the Centre, and the Great Eastern The Registration Districts are:- along the ~tern border. The London and North­ ------·------~----- Western enters the county at a point south of Watford, No. Name. Area. Pop. x8gx from which station a branch goes off westward to Rick· mansworth and one north-east to St. .Alba:p.s, the main ------·------line continuing through Tring to Rugby and the North. 130 Ware ...... 36,140 19,623 The Midland enters the county at Elstree, passes through 131 Bishop Stortford ...... 54.471 21,$17 St. Albans, and leaves the county again a little north of 132 Royston* ...... 91,o69 23,217 1 lfitcltin ...... 66,5o2 27,581 , where a branch goes south-west to Hemel 33 134 Hertford ...... 35.455 17,176 Hempstead, the main line continuing on via Luton to the 135 Hatfieldt ...... 30,o68 9,309 North. The Midland has also a line from Hitchin, via 136 St. AI bans ...... 41,399 26,872 Shefford, to Bedford. The Great Northern enters the 1 37 Watford ...... 36,952 38,914 1 8 Hmnel Hempstead ..••••..••....••..•. county close to Brockman park, running to Hatfield, 3 25,695 I5,II6 1 39 Berkhamsted ...... 26,o36 15,854 whence branches go west to St . .Albans, east tt> Hertford ) *Includes the Buntingford Union 28,472 5,66o and north-west through Harpenden to Luton and Dun­ t Includes the Welwyn Union ... 6,581 2,346 stable, the main line continuing through Welwyn, Steven­ ------·------age and Hitchin, and leaving the courrty near ; The following is a list of the parishes in each union_:­ from Hil:!chin a branch runs to Cambridge through Bal­ dock and Royston; a branch from the Suburban lines Some of the unions extend to other counties : some parishes of this company goes fu High Barnet. The Great Eastern in Herts are included in unions in :Middlesex, Bucks and railway enters the county near Waltbam Abbey, and Essex. skirts the eastern bor~er, sending off a branch below Rye House to Hertford and Ware, from which another BARNET UNION. branch runs off at St. Margarets to Buntingford, while Hadley (Middx) the main line continues by Sawbridgeworth and Bishop (Middx) • EastBarnet Ridge Stortford to Cam bridge. Barnet Vale Elstree (Middx) Hertfordshire is most known for its husbandry, and for l<'inchley (Middx) South Mimms (Urban) the growth of the best white wheat; the shire yields, l<'riern Barnet ( Middx) Totteridge besides grain, turnips, vegetables and hay for the London market, al'So apples, cherries, currants and strawberries. BERKHAMSTED UNION. There is a good deal of coppice and wood. The nurseries Pightlesthorne, or Pitstone are famous for the growth of roses, which carry off a Great Berkhamsted (Bucks) Puttenbam • great ma.ny of the prizes in London. Many cattle, sheep. Marsworth (Bucks) Tring (Urban) pigs and poultry are fed for London. Hamlet Tring (Rural) Wigginton The manufactures are straw plait, silk and paper. The malt trade, br~wing, tanning, currying, brick, tL.e and • BISHOP STORTFORD UNION • pipe making; canva,s making and weaving and coach Albury Great Hallingbury·(E~sex) making are carried on. The number of millers is large. Berden (Essex) Hen ham (Essex) The county is . in the South Eastern Circuit. There Birchanger (Essex) Bishop Stortford Little Hallingbury (Essex) was formerly a. separate commission of the peace for St. Manewden (Essex) Alban liberty, but by the County of Hertford and Liberty Sawbridgeworth of St. Alban Act, 1874, the county is arranged in two Elsenham (Essex) Stansted Mounttitchet (Essex) divisions, the eastern called the Hertford (comprising 10 Farnham (Essex) Furneaux Pelham Thorley petty sessional divisions), and the western the liberty Great or Ugley (Essex) of St. Alban division (comprising 4 petty sessional divi­ sions), and all those in the commission of the peace are BUNTINGFORD UNION. now justices for the whole county, and the prison at St. Anstey Little Albans is the county prison ; ~ourts of quarter sessions are held at Hertford and St. .Aibans, the Epiphany and Rushdm Midsummer adjourned sessions at Hertford and the Broadfield Sandon Buckland Throckii.g Easter and 1\fichaelmas adjourned sessions at St. Albans. Wallingtt n The County Courts (circuits 35, 37 and 38) are held at Great Hormead Bishop Stortford, Hitchin, Royston, Barnet, St. Albans, Layston Watford and Hertford. There are six Coroner's districts ...:__Bishop Stortf-ord, Hemel Hempste-ad, Hertford, Hitchin, HATFIELD UNION. Rovston, and St. Albans. The shire contains 160 civil • Hatfi>ld, or Bishop's Hatfield ~ortl aw parishes and parts of ::; others and forms the archdeacont:· Es~e :1d 1n l\ crtL 1\limms