Knebworth House 117 Water End Farm near Wheathampstead 118 Christ’s Hospital School, Hertford 119 The Grammar School, Hitchin 120 An Old Malting House, Baldock 121 Chequer’s Yard, Watford 122 The “Fighting Cocks,” St Albans 123 Waltham Cross 124 The Ermine Street at Hertford Heath 126 The Icknield Way, showing a Ford between Ickleford and Wilbury Hill 127 High Street, Stevenage 129 View on the Great North Road, Codicote Village 130 Watford 131 The Grand Junction Canal near Hemel Hempstead 133 Haileybury College 134 The Shire Hall, Hertford 139 The Salisbury Statue, Hatfield 143 Cecil Rhodes’s Birth-place, Bishop’s Stortford 144 Ruins of Verulam House, the Residence of Francis, Viscount St Albans 145 Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans 146 Charles Lamb 148 William Cowper 149 Bishop’s Stortford and the River Stort 155 The College Chapel, Haileybury 157 Letchworth, Open Air School 162 Shrine of St Amphibalus, St Albans’ Abbey 165 Diagrams 170 MAPS Hertfordshire, Topographical _Front Cover_ ” Geological _Back Cover_ England and Wales, showing Annual Rainfall 55 The illustrations on pp. 7, 32, 60, 62, 64, 83, 86, 92, 93, 94, 95, 100, 101, 102, 106, 108, 109, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 130, 133, 139, and 143 are reproduced from photographs by The Homeland Association, Ltd.; and those on pp. 4, 12, 15, 24, 39, 46, 69, 72, 73, 77, 99, 103, 107, 117, 120, 129, 144, 145, 155, 161, and 165 are from photographs by Messrs F. Frith & Co., Ltd., Reigate. Messrs H. W. Taunt & Co., of Oxford, supplied the views on pp. 21, 84 and 131; Mr A. Elsden, of Hertford, those on pp. 134 and 157; and Mr H. Valentine, of Harpenden, the one on p. 5. 1. County and Shire. The Name _Hertfordshire_. Its Origin and Meaning.