The Origins of HertfordshireLooks at the origins of the county and the early evolution of its landscape, and emphasises the surprising extent of continuity in structures of territorial organisation. |
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Before the Saxons | 20 |
Politics and territory 4001000 | 62 |
Early territorial organisation | 98 |
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10km Figure Abbot ancient Anglo-Saxon Archaeology Baldock Barnet Bedfordshire Bennington Berkhamsted Boulder Clay Braughing burh Cashio Catuvellauni century Cheshunt Chiltern Dipslope Clay Plateau clay uplands co-axial Colne Conquest county boundary developed ditch Domesday early East Saxons enclosure England English Ermine Street escarpment Essex evidence example excavations existence farms fields formed Gaddesden Gade Gover hamlets Hatfield Hemel Hempstead Hertford Hertfordshire Hicce Hitchin hundred Hunn important interfluves Iron Age kilometres king kingdom Kings Walden land landscape Langley large numbers late Saxon later located London major manor medieval Mercia Middle Saxon Middlesex minster Munden Niblett Northchurch occupied Odsey originally outlying parish church pattern places population principal probably Redbourne river Lea road Roman town Romano-British Saxon period settlement shire soils sokemen Southern Uplands St Albans Abbey Stevenage Stortford suggests survived territorial organisation tribal valleys Verlamion Verulamium village vills Ware watershed Welwyn West Saxon Wheathampstead wood woodland Wormley