Hertfordshire

"No debe confundirse con el condado inglés de Herefordshire Hertfordshire (pronunciado [hfd] y abreviado como "Herts") es un condado no metropolitano interior en el sureste de Inglaterra, en el Reino Unido. Ocupa 1643 km² y tiene una población (2008) de 1 078 400 habitantes. Su capital es Hertford. El lema del condado es "Trust and fear not" ("Confía y no temas"). El condado está al norte de Gran Londres y parte de Hertfordshire forma parte del cinturón londinense. Al este limita con Essex, al oeste con Buckinghamshire y al norte con Bedfordshire y Cambridgeshire. Las zonas verdes del sur de Hertfordshire forma parte del "green belt" (anillo verde) londinense. Al norte del "green belt" se encuentran las ciudades jardín de Welwyn Garden City y Letchworth y los new towns de Hemel y Stevenage. El punto más alto se sitúa a 400 m del pueblo de Hastoe cerca de Tring. La altura es de 245 msnm. Su economía se basaba en los productos agrícolas (cereales) y lácteos hasta el siglo último. Se cultivan flores que después se comercializan en otros mercados, sobre todo en Londres . Tiene industria de maquinaria ligera y talleres de imprenta."

"Hertfordshire (/hrtfrdr/; abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south. Four towns have between 50,000 and 100,000 residents: Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Watford and St Albans. The county town, Hertford, once the main market town for the medieval agricultural county ranks 13th in population today deriving its name from a hart (stag) and a ford used as the components of the county's coat of arms and flag. Elevations are high for the region in the north and west. These reach over 240m in the western projection around Tring which is in the Chilterns. The county's borders are approximately the watersheds of the Colne and Lea, which flow southwards each accompanied by a canal. Hertfordshire is at the edge of the London Basin and most of its undeveloped land is agricultural and protected as Metropolitan Green Belt. The volume of intact medieval and Tudor buildings surpasses London, in places in well-preserved conservation areas, especially in St Albans which includes some remains of Verulamium, the town where in the third century AD an early recorded British martyrdom took place. Saint Alban, a Romano-British soldier, took the place of a Christian priest and was beheaded on Holywell Hill. His martyr's cross of a yellow saltire on a blue background is reflected in the flag and coat of arms of Hertfordshire. The county's landmarks span many centuries, ranging from the six 'Hills', next to the New Town of Stevenage built by inhabitants during the Roman Britain centuries, to Leavesden Film Studios. Leavesden filmed much of the UK-based