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About Hertfordshire
Created in Saxon times Hertfordshire lies nine miles from London and stretches from Rickmansworth to Waltham Cross and in the South to Royston and Hitchen in the North. Hertfordshire shares boundaries with Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridge and Essex.

History of Hertfordshire
Near to what we know as St Albans was the ancient city of Verulanium, a Roman city that was created in the first century AD. Evidence of Roman settlement among others has also been found in Cheshunt Park where Ermine Street  runs through, a small settlement was found there in 2002. After some time in the fifth Century the Romans left Hertfordshire and the Anglo-Saxon then dominated the area. Along with form their own settlements, the Anglo-Saxons also formed the town Hertford. 


Doomsday Book
The Domesday Book recorded the county as having nine hundreds. Tring and Danais became one, Dacorum. The other seven were Braughing, Broadwater, Cashio, Edwinstree, Hertford, Hitchin and Odsey.

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