19. Communications--Past and Present. Roads, Railways, Canals 125 20. Administration and Divisions--Ancient and Modern 135 21. The Roll of Honour of the County 141 22. The Chief Towns and Villages of Hertfordshire 151 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Modern Hertfordshire: Station Road, Letchworth 4 Ancient Hertfordshire: Thatched Cottages, Harpenden 5 An Old Farm-House near Wheathampstead 7 A Typical Hertfordshire Village: Much Hadham 12 Bancroft, Hitchin 15 Netting the Gade, Cassiobury Park 21 Bishop’s Stortford 24 View on the Downs looking towards Wallington from the Icknield Way 32 Six Hills, Stevenage (Danish Barrows) 39 Tring Park 46 French Row, St Albans 60 Ancient House at Welwyn, now the Police Station 62 A Hertfordshire Farm near Rickmansworth 64 A Lavender Field, Hitchin 69 Moor Park, near Rickmansworth 72 Canal and Lock, Rickmansworth 73 Monastery Gateway, St Albans 77 The Staircase, Hatfield House 83 Cassiobury 84 The Rye House: Portions of the Servants’ Quarters 86 Palaeolithic Flint Implement 89 Neolithic Celt of Greenstone 89 The Devil’s Dyke, Marford 92 Ancient Causeway, Verulam (St Albans) 93 Roman Wall in St Germans’ Meadow, Verulam 94 St Albans’ Abbey from the south side 95 St Peter’s, Tewin 99 St Mary’s, Cheshunt 100 St Helen’s, Wheathampstead 101 St Mary’s, Hemel Hempstead 102 St Albans’ Abbey 103 Ruins of Sopwell Nunnery, St Albans 106 The Priory, Hitchin 107 Courtyard in the Biggin Almshouses, Hitchin 108 The Priory, King’s Langley 109 Hatfield House, South Front 116