2007-03-26 10:15:27 · 3 answers · asked by metalhead 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
wat the hell was all tht about?
2007-03-26 10:37:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I mean no disrespect too women but when they hold a bass they just look silly. It's too big for most and they look amazing with electric guitars so why do they do it?
2007-03-26 17:25:08 · answer #2 · answered by Jason 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Hertfordshire
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Not to be confused with Herefordshire.
Hertfordshire Image:EnglandHertfordshire.png
Geography
Status Ceremonial & Non-metropolitan county
Origin Historic
Region: East of England
Area
- Total
- Admin. council Ranked 36th
634 miles² (1,643 km²)
Ranked 32nd
Admin HQ: Hertford
ISO 3166-2: GB-HRT
ONS code: 26
NUTS 3: UKH23
Demographics
Population
- Total (2005 est.)
- Density
- Admin. Council Ranked 15th
1,048,200
638 / km²
Ranked 6th
Ethnicity: 93.7% White
3.0% S. Asian
1.1% Afro-Carib.
Politics
Arms of Hertfordshire County Council
Hertfordshire County Council
http://www.hertsdirect.org/
Executive Conservative
Members of Parliament
* James Clappison
* Barbara Follett
* David Gauke
* Oliver Heald
* Peter Lilley
* Anne Main
* Mike Penning
* Mark Prisk
* Grant Shapps
* Charles Walker
* Claire Ward
Districts
Image:HertfordshireNumbered.png
1. Three Rivers
2. Watford
3. Hertsmere
4. Welwyn Hatfield
5. Broxbourne
6. East Hertfordshire
7. Stevenage
8. North Hertfordshire
9. St Albans
10. Dacorum
Image:Ltspkr.pngHertfordshire (pronounced ['hÉËt.fÊd.shÉ] or ['hÉË..fÊd.shÉ], abbreviated as "Herts") is an inland county in England and is one of the Home Counties.
Contents
[hide]
* 1 Geography
* 2 History
* 3 Economy
* 4 Geology
* 5 Urban areas
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links
[edit] Geography
Hertfordshire is located to the north of Greater London, and much of the county is part of the London commuter belt. The county has a wide range of transport links, with the M1, M10, A1(M), the M25 and other motorways passing through it. To the east of Hertfordshire is Essex, to the west is Buckinghamshire and to the north are Bedfordshire, Luton and Cambridgeshire.
The highest point in the county is 803 feet (245 m) above sea level, a quarter mile (400 m) from the village of Hastoe near Tring. The county motto, is "Trust and fear not". As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose the Pasqueflower as Hertfordshire's county flower.
[edit] History
Main article: History of Hertfordshire.
Hertfordshire was originally the area assigned to a fortress constructed at Hertford under the rule of Edward the Elder in 913. The name Hertfordshire appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1011.
Most English counties have nicknames for people from that county, such as a Tyke from Yorkshire and a Yellowbelly from Lincolnshire; the traditional nickname for people from Hertfordshire is 'Hertfordshire Hedgehog' or 'Hertfordshire Hayabout'; although hedgehogs are abundant in the county, the nickname is probably a corruption of 'haycock', a haystack, referring to the county's cornfields, which formed the county's principal Medieval export to the food markets of London.
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.
Hertfordshire is the starting point of the New River: a man made waterway, opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water.
Hertfordshire's only traditional city, St Albans, is built by the site of Verulamium, the third largest city in Roman Britain. The modern town was named after Saint Alban, the first Christian martyr. Hertfordshire is also the location of the UK's first two Garden Cities, Welwyn Garden City, and Letchworth which were both founded by Ebenezer Howard.
Hatfield House, in Hatfield, was a former home to Queen Elizabeth I during her youth. It is said that here, while sat under a large oak tree (which although not alive today, can be viewed at the visitor centre within Hatfield Park), she was told she was to become Queen.
In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, Barnet Urban District and East Barnet Urban District were abolished and their area transferred from Hertfordshire to Greater London to form part of the London Borough of Barnet. [1] [2] At the same time the Potters Bar Urban District was directly transferred from Middlesex to Hertfordshire. [3]
From the 1920s until the late 1980s, the town of Borehamwood was home to one of the major British film studio complexes, including the MGM-British Studios. Many well known films were made here, including 2001: A Space Odyssey and the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. Television productions are still made at the nearby Elstree Studios, which were taken over by the BBC. The Order Of The Phoenix, the 5th Harry Potter movie, was filmed in Hertfordshire.
On the morning of 11 December 2005, a large explosion and fire occurred at a petroleum fuel depot near Hemel Hempstead, in Buncefield. Forty three people were injured, luckily nobody was killed, but considerable damage was caused. The two day fire was the largest in peacetime Europe, and a pall of smoke darkened London and much of South East England.
In the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Hertfordshire is the location of Longbourn where the Bennet family lives and of Netherfield Hall where Mr. Bingley stays.
In 2012, the Hertfordshire town of Broxbourne will host the canoe and kayak slalom events of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
At the end of 2006, a 14-year-old boy from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire sailed into the record books for setting the youngest age a person has sailed single handedly across the Atlantic Ocean. The journey took 3 weeks. [1]
[edit] Economy
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Hertfordshire at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.
Year Regional Gross Value Added[2] Agriculture[3] Industry[4] Services[5]
1995 11,742 96 3,292 8,354
2000 18,370 77 4,138 14,155
2003 20,937 82 4,348 16,507
[edit] Geology
Main article: Geology of Hertfordshire.
The rocks of Hertfordshire belong to the great shallow syncline known as the London basin. The beds dip in a south-easterly direction towards the syncline's lowest point roughly under the River Thames. The most important formations are the Cretaceous Chalk, which is exposed as the high ground in the north and west of the county and the younger Palaeocene, Reading Beds and Eocene, London Clay which occupy the remaining southern part. The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays.
[edit] Urban areas
These are the main towns in Hertfordshire. For a complete list of settlements see list of places in Hertfordshire.
* Baldock
* Berkhamsted
* Bishop's Stortford
* Borehamwood
* Broxbourne
* Cheshunt
* Chorleywood
* Harpenden
* Hatfield
* Hemel Hempstead
* Hertford
* Hitchin
* Hoddesdon
* Letchworth Garden City
* Potters Bar
* Radlett
* Rickmansworth
* Royston
* Sawbridgeworth
* Stevenage
* St Albans
* Tring
* Waltham Cross
* Ware
* Watford
* Welwyn Garden City
[edit] See also
* Category:Towns in Hertfordshire
* Category:Villages in Hertfordshire
* Category:Buildings and structures in Hertfordshire
* Category:Castles in Hertfordshire
* Category:Churches in Hertfordshire
* Category:Historic houses in Hertfordshire
* Category:Gardens in Hertfordshire
* Category:Parks and commons in Hertfordshire
[edit] References
1. ^ Boy sails into record books from the BBC and Trans-Atlantic teenager near goal
2. ^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
3. ^ includes hunting and forestry
4. ^ includes energy and construction
5. ^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured
[edit] External links
* For places in Hertfordshire
* Hertfordshire County Council website
* Population of Hertfordshire Settlements - from census 2001
* Ask Watson - Hertford - Events in and around the town of Hertford
* Hertfordshire, by Herbert W Tompkins, 1922, from Project Gutenberg
* Hertbeat FM- Local Radio Station
* For researching the History and Genealogy of Hertfordshire
v • d • e
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Hertfordshire
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Not to be confused with Herefordshire.
Hertfordshire Image:EnglandHertfordshire.png
Geography
Status Ceremonial & Non-metropolitan county
Origin Historic
Region: East of England
Area
- Total
- Admin. council Ranked 36th
634 miles² (1,643 km²)
Ranked 32nd
Admin HQ: Hertford
ISO 3166-2: GB-HRT
ONS code: 26
NUTS 3: UKH23
Demographics
Population
- Total (2005 est.)
- Density
- Admin. Council Ranked 15th
1,048,200
638 / km²
Ranked 6th
Ethnicity: 93.7% White
3.0% S. Asian
1.1% Afro-Carib.
Politics
Arms of Hertfordshire County Council
Hertfordshire County Council
http://www.hertsdirect.org/
Executive Conservative
Members of Parliament
* James Clappison
* Barbara Follett
* David Gauke
* Oliver Heald
* Peter Lilley
* Anne Main
* Mike Penning
* Mark Prisk
* Grant Shapps
* Charles Walker
* Claire Ward
Districts
Image:HertfordshireNumbered.png
1. Three Rivers
2. Watford
3. Hertsmere
4. Welwyn Hatfield
5. Broxbourne
6. East Hertfordshire
7. Stevenage
8. North Hertfordshire
9. St Albans
10. Dacorum
Image:Ltspkr.pngHertfordshire (pronounced ['hÉËt.fÊd.shÉ] or ['hÉË..fÊd.shÉ], abbreviated as "Herts") is an inland county in England and is one of the Home Counties.
Contents
[hide]
* 1 Geography
* 2 History
* 3 Economy
* 4 Geology
* 5 Urban areas
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links
[edit] Geography
Hertfordshire is located to the north of Greater London, and much of the county is part of the London commuter belt. The county has a wide range of transport links, with the M1, M10, A1(M), the M25 and other motorways passing through it. To the east of Hertfordshire is Essex, to the west is Buckinghamshire and to the north are Bedfordshire, Luton and Cambridgeshire.
The highest point in the county is 803 feet (245 m) above sea level, a quarter mile (400 m) from the village of Hastoe near Tring. The county motto, is "Trust and fear not". As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose the Pasqueflower as Hertfordshire's county flower.
[edit] History
Main article: History of Hertfordshire.
Hertfordshire was originally the area assigned to a fortress constructed at Hertford under the rule of Edward the Elder in 913. The name Hertfordshire appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1011.
Most English counties have nicknames for people from that county, such as a Tyke from Yorkshire and a Yellowbelly from Lincolnshire; the traditional nickname for people from Hertfordshire is 'Hertfordshire Hedgehog' or 'Hertfordshire Hayabout'; although hedgehogs are abundant in the county, the nickname is probably a corruption of 'haycock', a haystack, referring to the county's cornfields, which formed the county's principal Medieval export to the food markets of London.
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.
Hertfordshire is the starting point of the New River: a man made waterway, opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water.
Hertfordshire's only traditional city, St Albans, is built by the site of Verulamium, the third largest city in Roman Britain. The modern town was named after Saint Alban, the first Christian martyr. Hertfordshire is also the location of the UK's first two Garden Cities, Welwyn Garden City, and Letchworth which were both founded by Ebenezer Howard.
Hatfield House, in Hatfield, was a former home to Queen Elizabeth I during her youth. It is said that here, while sat under a large oak tree (which although not alive today, can be viewed at the visitor centre within Hatfield Park), she was told she was to become Queen.
In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, Barnet Urban District and East Barnet Urban District were abolished and their area transferred from Hertfordshire to Greater London to form part of the London Borough of Barnet. [1] [2] At the same time the Potters Bar Urban District was directly transferred from Middlesex to Hertfordshire. [3]
From the 1920s until the late 1980s, the town of Borehamwood was home to one of the major British film studio complexes, including the MGM-British Studios. Many well known films were made here, including 2001: A Space Odyssey and the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. Television productions are still made at the nearby Elstree Studios, which were taken over by the BBC. The Order Of The Phoenix, the 5th Harry Potter movie, was filmed in Hertfordshire.
On the morning of 11 December 2005, a large explosion and fire occurred at a petroleum fuel depot near Hemel Hempstead, in Buncefield. Forty three people were injured, luckily nobody was killed, but considerable damage was caused. The two day fire was the largest in peacetime Europe, and a pall of smoke darkened London and much of South East England.
In the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Hertfordshire is the location of Longbourn where the Bennet family lives and of Netherfield Hall where Mr. Bingley stays.
In 2012, the Hertfordshire town of Broxbourne will host the canoe and kayak slalom events of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
At the end of 2006, a 14-year-old boy from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire sailed into the record books for setting the youngest age a person has sailed single handedly across the Atlantic Ocean. The journey took 3 weeks. [1]
[edit] Economy
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Hertfordshire at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.
Year Regional Gross Value Added[2] Agriculture[3] Industry[4] Services[5]
1995 11,742 96 3,292 8,354
2000 18,370 77 4,138 14,155
2003 20,937 82 4,348 16,507
[edit] Geology
Main article: Geology of Hertfordshire.
The rocks of Hertfordshire belong to the great shallow syncline known as the London basin. The beds dip in a south-easterly direction towards the syncline's lowest point roughly under the River Thames. The most important formations are the Cretaceous Chalk, which is exposed as the high ground in the north and west of the county and the younger Palaeocene, Reading Beds and Eocene, London Clay which occupy the remaining southern part. The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays.
[edit] Urban areas
These are the main towns in Hertfordshire. For a complete list of settlements see list of places in Hertfordshire.
* Baldock
* Berkhamsted
* Bishop's Stortford
* Borehamwood
* Broxbourne
* Cheshunt
* Chorleywood
* Harpenden
* Hatfield
* Hemel Hempstead
* Hertford
* Hitchin
* Hoddesdon
* Letchworth Garden City
* Potters Bar
* Radlett
* Rickmansworth
* Royston
* Sawbridgeworth
* Stevenage
* St Albans
* Tring
* Waltham Cross
* Ware
* Watford
* Welwyn Garden City
[edit] See also
* Category:Towns in Hertfordshire
* Category:Villages in Hertfordshire
* Category:Buildings and structures in Hertfordshire
* Category:Castles in Hertfordshire
* Category:Churches in Hertfordshire
* Category:Historic houses in Hertfordshire
* Category:Gardens in Hertfordshire
* Category:Parks and commons in Hertfordshire
[edit] References
1. ^ Boy sails into record books from the BBC and Trans-Atlantic teenager near goal
2. ^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
3. ^ includes hunting and forestry
4. ^ includes energy and construction
5. ^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured
[edit] External links
* For places in Hertfordshire
* Hertfordshire County Council website
* Population of Hertfordshire Settlements - from census 2001
* Ask Watson - Hertford - Events in and around the town of Hertford
* Hertfordshire, by Herbert W Tompkins, 1922, from Project Gutenberg
* Hertbeat FM- Local Radio Station
* For researching the History and Genealogy of Hertfordshire
v • d • e
Flag of England Ceremonial counties of England[hide]
Counties of the Lieutenancies Act 1997
Bedfordshire • Berkshire • City of Bristol • Buckinghamshire • Cambridgeshire • Cheshire • Cornwall • Cumbria • Derbyshire • Devon • Dorset • Durham • East Riding of Yorkshire • East Sussex • Essex • Gloucestershire • Greater London • Greater Manchester • Hampshire • Herefordshire • Hertfordshire • Isle of Wight • Kent • Lancashire • Leicestershire • Lincolnshire • City of London • Merseyside • Norfolk • Northamptonshire • Northumberland • North Yorkshire • Nottinghamshire • Oxfordshire • Rutland • Shropshire • Somerset • South Yorkshire • Staffordshire • Suffolk • Surrey • Tyne and Wear • Warwickshire • West Midlands • West Sussex • West Yorkshire • Wiltshire • Worcestershire
v • d • e
Flag of England Historic counties of England[hide]
Counties that originate prior to 1889
Bedfordshire • Berkshire • Buckinghamshire • Cambridgeshire • Cheshire • Cornwall • Cumberland • Derbyshire • Devon • Dorset • Durham • Essex • Gloucestershire • Hampshire • Herefordshire • Hertfordshire • Huntingdonshire • Kent • Lancashire • Leicestershire • Lincolnshire • Middlesex • Monmouthshire • Norfolk • Northamptonshire • Northumberland • Nottinghamshire • Oxfordshire • Rutland • Shropshire • Somerset • Staffordshire • Suffolk • Surrey • Sussex • Warwickshire • Westmorland • Wiltshire • Worcestershire • Yorkshire
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Hertfordshire
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Not to be confused with Herefordshire.
Hertfordshire Image:EnglandHertfordshire.png
Geography
Status Ceremonial & Non-metropolitan county
Origin Historic
Region: East of England
Area
- Total
- Admin. council Ranked 36th
634 miles² (1,643 km²)
Ranked 32nd
Admin HQ: Hertford
ISO 3166-2: GB-HRT
ONS code: 26
NUTS 3: UKH23
Demographics
Population
- Total (2005 est.)
- Density
- Admin. Council Ranked 15th
1,048,200
638 / km²
Ranked 6th
Ethnicity: 93.7% White
3.0% S. Asian
1.1% Afro-Carib.
Politics
Arms of Hertfordshire County Council
Hertfordshire County Council
http://www.hertsdirect.org/
Executive Conservative
Members of Parliament
* James Clappison
* Barbara Follett
* David Gauke
* Oliver Heald
* Peter Lilley
* Anne Main
* Mike Penning
* Mark Prisk
* Grant Shapps
* Charles Walker
* Claire Ward
Districts
Image:HertfordshireNumbered.png
1. Three Rivers
2. Watford
3. Hertsmere
4. Welwyn Hatfield
5. Broxbourne
6. East Hertfordshire
7. Stevenage
8. North Hertfordshire
9. St Albans
10. Dacorum
Image:Ltspkr.pngHertfordshire (pronounced ['hÉËt.fÊd.shÉ] or ['hÉË..fÊd.shÉ], abbreviated as "Herts") is an inland county in England and is one of the Home Counties.
Contents
[hide]
* 1 Geography
* 2 History
* 3 Economy
* 4 Geology
* 5 Urban areas
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links
[edit] Geography
Hertfordshire is located to the north of Greater London, and much of the county is part of the London commuter belt. The county has a wide range of transport links, with the M1, M10, A1(M), the M25 and other motorways passing through it. To the east of Hertfordshire is Essex, to the west is Buckinghamshire and to the north are Bedfordshire, Luton and Cambridgeshire.
The highest point in the county is 803 feet (245 m) above sea level, a quarter mile (400 m) from the village of Hastoe near Tring. The county motto, is "Trust and fear not". As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose the Pasqueflower as Hertfordshire's county flower.
[edit] History
Main article: History of Hertfordshire.
Hertfordshire was originally the area assigned to a fortress constructed at Hertford under the rule of Edward the Elder in 913. The name Hertfordshire appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1011.
Most English counties have nicknames for people from that county, such as a Tyke from Yorkshire and a Yellowbelly from Lincolnshire; the traditional nickname for people from Hertfordshire is 'Hertfordshire Hedgehog' or 'Hertfordshire Hayabout'; although hedgehogs are abundant in the county, the nickname is probably a corruption of 'haycock', a haystack, referring to the county's cornfields, which formed the county's principal Medieval export to the food markets of London.
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.
Hertfordshire is the starting point of the New River: a man made waterway, opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water.
Hertfordshire's only traditional city, St Albans, is built by the site of Verulamium, the third largest city in Roman Britain. The modern town was named after Saint Alban, the first Christian martyr. Hertfordshire is also the location of the UK's first two Garden Cities, Welwyn Garden City, and Letchworth which were both founded by Ebenezer Howard.
Hatfield House, in Hatfield, was a former home to Queen Elizabeth I during her youth. It is said that here, while sat under a large oak tree (which although not alive today, can be viewed at the visitor centre within Hatfield Park), she was told she was to become Queen.
In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, Barnet Urban District and East Barnet Urban District were abolished and their area transferred from Hertfordshire to Greater London to form part of the London Borough of Barnet. [1] [2] At the same time the Potters Bar Urban District was directly transferred from Middlesex to Hertfordshire. [3]
From the 1920s until the late 1980s, the town of Borehamwood was home to one of the major British film studio complexes, including the MGM-British Studios. Many well known films were made here, including 2001: A Space Odyssey and the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. Television productions are still made at the nearby Elstree Studios, which were taken over by the BBC. The Order Of The Phoenix, the 5th Harry Potter movie, was filmed in Hertfordshire.
On the morning of 11 December 2005, a large explosion and fire occurred at a petroleum fuel depot near Hemel Hempstead, in Buncefield. Forty three people were injured, luckily nobody was killed, but considerable damage was caused. The two day fire was the largest in peacetime Europe, and a pall of smoke darkened London and much of South East England.
In the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Hertfordshire is the location of Longbourn where the Bennet family lives and of Netherfield Hall where Mr. Bingley stays.
In 2012, the Hertfordshire town of Broxbourne will host the canoe and kayak slalom events of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
At the end of 2006, a 14-year-old boy from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire sailed into the record books for setting the youngest age a person has sailed single handedly across the Atlantic Ocean. The journey took 3 weeks. [1]
[edit] Economy
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Hertfordshire at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.
Year Regional Gross Value Added[2] Agriculture[3] Industry[4] Services[5]
1995 11,742 96 3,292 8,354
2000 18,370 77 4,138 14,155
2003 20,937 82 4,348 16,507
[edit] Geology
Main article: Geology of Hertfordshire.
The rocks of Hertfordshire belong to the great shallow syncline known as the London basin. The beds dip in a south-easterly direction towards the syncline's lowest point roughly under the River Thames. The most important formations are the Cretaceous Chalk, which is exposed as the high ground in the north and west of the county and the younger Palaeocene, Reading Beds and Eocene, London Clay which occupy the remaining southern part. The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays.
[edit] Urban areas
These are the main towns in Hertfordshire. For a complete list of settlements see list of places in Hertfordshire.
* Baldock
* Berkhamsted
* Bishop's Stortford
* Borehamwood
* Broxbourne
* Cheshunt
* Chorleywood
* Harpenden
* Hatfield
* Hemel Hempstead
* Hertford
* Hitchin
* Hoddesdon
* Letchworth Garden City
* Potters Bar
* Radlett
* Rickmansworth
* Royston
* Sawbridgeworth
* Stevenage
* St Albans
* Tring
* Waltham Cross
* Ware
* Watford
* Welwyn Garden City
[edit] See also
* Category:Towns in Hertfordshire
* Category:Villages in Hertfordshire
* Category:Buildings and structures in Hertfordshire
* Category:Castles in Hertfordshire
* Category:Churches in Hertfordshire
* Category:Historic houses in Hertfordshire
* Category:Gardens in Hertfordshire
* Category:Parks and commons in Hertfordshire
[edit] References
1. ^ Boy sails into record books from the BBC and Trans-Atlantic teenager near goal
2. ^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
3. ^ includes hunting and forestry
4. ^ includes energy and construction
5. ^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured
[edit] External links
* For places in Hertfordshire
* Hertfordshire County Council website
* Population of Hertfordshire Settlements - from census 2001
* Ask Watson - Hertford - Events in and around the town of Hertford
* Hertfordshire, by Herbert W Tompkins, 1922, from Project Gutenberg
* Hertbeat FM- Local Radio Station
* For researching the History and Genealogy of Hertfordshire
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2007-03-26 17:27:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋