Hertfordshire is an old and non metropolitan county that is located in the Eastern area of England and Hertford is its county town. It is one of the Home Counties that do not have a sea shore and lies inland, which shares its borders with Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire at the borough of Luton, Buckinghamshire, Greater London and Essex.

The Pasqueflower was chosen Hertfordshires county flower after a 2002 marketing campaign done by plant conservation charity Plantlife. Originally Hertfordshire was the region provided to a fortress, which was constructed at Hertford during the rule of Edward the Elder, in 913AD.

The name Hertford was taken from the Anglo Saxon heart ford, which means deer crossing of a watercourse and this name first appeared in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle in 1011. Obviously deer features in many county designs. Permanent settlement started at the early of the Bronze Age, followed by various tribes settling in this region during the Iron Age.

When the Romans conquered Britain in 43 AD, Hertfordshire altered very soon in the Roman way of life. A new town called Verulamium became the third largest city of Roman Britain. After Romans abandoned Britain, the Anglo Saxons took control of the area, constructed their own villages and towns, including the county town and now city of Hertford.

According to the Domesday Book that recorded the county it contained only nine hundred people. As London developed, Hertfordshire came close to the English capital, most of the region was in the procession of aristocracy and nobility, and this backup helped a lot in boosting the local economic structure.

In 1965, there were minor changes in the boundaries of Hertfordshire as Potters Bar Urban District of Middlesex was brought in to Hertfordshire. Since the 1920s to the late 1980s, the town of Borehamwood used to house one of the significant British film studios, which included the MGM British Studios. Most of the studios often used the name of Elstree, from the name of the adjoining village.

The city of Waltham Cross, which lies within the borough of Broxbourne, will play host to the canoe and kayak slalom events in the Summer Olympic Games in 2012. A proposal has been put forward by town-planner Andr?Duany, who has advised that fully designed Garden Villages should be constructed in Hertfordshire to soothe some of the pressure from new homes and most probably a third Garden City will follow.

This ancient county is definitely one of the author’s favorites in England.