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through Harpenden to LutoJl and Dunstable, the main Mimms-South (Middx) Ridge line continuing through Welwyn, Stevenage and Hitchin, Mimms Urban-South Shenley and leaving the county near Ickleford; from Hitchin a branch runs to Cambridge through Baldock and Monken Hadley Totteridge BOYllton; a branch from the Suburban lines of this company goes to High Barnet. B"ERKHAMSTED UNION. The Great Eastern railway enters the county near Waltham .Abbey, and skirts the eastern border, sending Aldbury Northchurch off a branch below Rye House to Hertford and Ware, Berkhamsted Great-Urban Pitstone (Bucks) from which another branch runs off at St. Margarets to Berkhamsted Great-Rural Puttenham Buntingford, while the main line continues by Saw Gaddesden-Little Tring Urban bridgeworth and Bishop Stortforo to Oambridge. Marsworth (Bucks) Tring Rural Hertfordshire is most known for its husbandry, and for the growth of the best white wheat; the shire yields, Nettleden Hamlet Wigginton besides grain, turnips, vegetables and hay for the London market, also apples, cherries, currants and strawberries. BISHOP STORTFORD UNiON. There is a good deal of coppice and wood. The nurseries are famous for the growth of roses, which carry off a Albury Hallingbury-Great (Essex) great many of the prizes in London. Many cattle, sheep, Berden (Essex) Hallingbury-Little (Essex) pigs and poultl'y are fed for London. Birchanger (Essex) Henham (Essex) The manufactures are straw plait, silk and paper. The Bishop Stortford Manuden (Essex) malt trade, brewing, tanning, currying, brick, tile and pipe making; canvas making and weaving and coach Braughing Sawbrid~eworth making are carried on. The number of millers is large. Brellt Pelham Stansted Mountfitchet (Essex) The county is in the South. Eastern Circuit. There Elsenham (Essex) Stocking Pelham wu formerly a separate commis!lion of the peace for St. .Alban liberty, but by the County.of Hertford and Liberty Farnham (Essex) Thorley of St. Alban Act, 1874, the county was arranged in two Furneaux Pelham Ugley (Essex) divisions, the eastern called the Hertford (compri,sing 10 Hadham-Great or Much Wych-High petty sessional divisions), and the western the liberty Hadham-Little of St. .Alban division (comprising 4 petty sessional divi sions), but these divisions have been abolished and the county now comprises 15 pe~ty sessional divisions. The BUNTINGFORD UNION. prison at St. AIbans is the county prison; courts of Anstey Layston quarter sessions are held at Hertford and St. AIbans, .Ardeley, or Yardley Meesden the Epiphany and Midsummer adjourned sessions at Hertford and the Easter and Michaelmas adjourned Aspenden Rushden sessions at St. Albans. The County Courts (circuits 35, Broadfield Sandon 37 and 38) are held at Bishop Stortford, Hitchin, Buckland Throcking Royston, Barnet, St. Albans, Watford and Hertford. Cottered Wallington There are seven Ooroner's districts-Bishop Stortford, Hemel Hempstead, Hertford, Hitchin, Royston, St. Hormead-Great Westmill Albans and Watford. The shire contains 156 civil Hormead-Little Wyddial (l8rishes, and forms the archdeaconry of St. .Albans, in the diocese of St. AIbans and province of Canterbury, HATFIELD UNION. 'and is divided into the following rural deaneries :-Bal dock, Barnet, Bennington, Berkhamsted, Bishop Stort Hatfield, or Bishop's Hatfield Northaw ford, Buntingford, Hertford, Hitehin, St. AIbans, Ware, Essendon North l\1imms Watford, and Welwyn. St. Albans, which has been erected into a Cathedral City, had a population in 1901 of 16,1°9. Hertford is a HEMEL HEMPSTEAD UNION. municipal borough, population 9,322; also Hemel Hemp Bovingdon Hemel Hempstead stead, population II,264. The other towns are Baldock, Flamstead Kings Langley 1l0pulation, 2,057; Barnet, 7,876; Berkhamsted, 5,140; Flaunden l\Iarkyate :Bishop Stortford, 7,143; Oheshunt, 5,912; Hatfield, 4,754; Hitchin, 10,°72 ; Hoddesdon, 4,7II; Rickmans Gaddesden-Great worth, 5,627; Royston, 3.517; Sawbridgeworth, 2,085; SteTenage, 3,957; Tring, 4,349; Ware, 5,573; Watford, HERTFORD UNION. 27,2°5; Welwyn, 1,660. Amwell-Little Hertford The Registration Districts are:- Aston Hertford-St. Andrew Rural _._------:----".--- Bayford Hertford-8t. John Rural No. Name. Area. PoP.1901 Bengeo Rural Hertingfordbury Bennington Sacombe ------_._------_.- ---- Berkhamsted-Little Stapleford Bramfield Tewin 13° Ware ..•..•..•...... •..•.....•.....•... 36,132 21,174 Brickendon Rural Walkern 1:31 Bishop Stortford . 54,471 21,498 132 Royston* ...... •...... • 9 1 , 067 21,046 Datchworth Watton-at-Stone 133 Hitchin ...... •..•..•..•..•.....•..•..• 66,84° 28,749 134 Hertford...... •.....•...... • 35,461 17,°37 HITOHIN UNION. 135 lI~tfiel