Hertfordshire

Parts of Hertfordshire hide in the beautiful Chiltern Hills, which run through part of the west of the county into Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. In the east the new towns of Welwyn Garden City, Letchworth Garden City and Watford are highly industrialised whilst in the west of the county, there are many smaller towns and villages which are agricultural in their nature. Residents of the smaller west Hertfordshire towns and villages are known locally as 'Hedgehogs'.

Being close to London, the county has some of the finest examples of traditional English country homes within its borders. Hatfield House, Knebworth House and Brocket Hall all date back centuries whilst in the market town of Berkhamsted a Norman castle still stands. Graeme Green was both born and educated in Berkhamsted. County town: Hertford Other major towns: Watford, Hemel Hempstead, St. Albans Hertfordshire Places of Worship Regional Projects Forum

Source: Wikipedia

Resources

Primary Reference

• Hertfordshire Record Office (HALS)

• Hertfordshire Libraries

• Hertfordshire Family History Society

• Hertfordshire Look-up Exchange

Countywide Interest

• Hertfordshire Council

• Dacorum Heritage Trust

• Genealogy in Hertfordshire

• Genealogy in Hertfordshire

• Visitations of Hertfordshire 1572 and 1634

Specific Town and Village Interest

• Berkhamsted History

• Wiki Page Berkhamsted

• History of Bishop's Stortford and Thorley

• Borehamwood and Elstree Times

• Bovingdon Census Returns, 1841 & 1871

• Bovingdon

• Bushey Museum & Art Gallery - incl. part-time Local Studies section

• Caddington Local History Group

• Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted & Tring Local History

• Discover Hertford

• Hunsdon -includes some Parish Records

• Kings Langley, Its History and Local Architecture

• Knebworth and Stevenage Mounumental Inscriptions

• Index to the Leighton Buzzard Observer

• Letchworth & District History Society

• Leverstock Green History and Genealogy

• Little Munden, Great Munden and Sacombe Genealogy Pages

• Markyate Local History Society

• Wiki Page Northchurch

• Pirton Local History Group

• Preston in the Nineteenth Century

• Puckeridge Village History

• Redbourn Genealogy Pages

• Royston Cave- A Knights Templar Legacy

• Royston & District Museum & Art Gallery

• History of Stevenage

• Therfield

• The Friends of St James the Great, Thorley

• This is Tring

• Burials in Welwyn Churchyard

• Wheathampstead

Maps and Photographs

• Hertfordshire Churches

• Old Postcards of Barnet

Register Office

There are 8 district offices within Hertfordshire.

Online applications can be made to any office via the following link:

Hertsdirect Herts Direct

Alternatively postal applications can be made to the following district offices:

Bishop Stortford Registration District

Bishops Stortford Register Office
Riverside House
2 Hockerill Street
Bishops Stortford
Hertfordshire
CM23 2DL

Tel 01279 652273

Broxbourne Registration District

Broxbourne Register Office
Bishops College
Churchgate
Cheshunt
Hertfordshire
EN8 9XH

Tel 01992 623107

Dacorum Registration District

Dacorum Register Office
The Bury
Queensway
Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire
HP1 1HR

Tel 01442 228600

Hatfield Registration District

19b St Albans Road East
Hatfield
Hertfordshire
AL10 0NG

Tel 01707 283921

Hertford and Ware Registration District

Hertford Register Office
County Hall
Pegs Lane
Hertford
Hertfordshire
SG13 8DE

Tel: 01992 555590 / 01992 555591

St Albans Registration District

St Albans Register Office
The Gatehouse
1 Victoria Square
Victoria Street
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL1 3TF

Tel: 01727 774030

Stevenage,Hitchin and Royston District

Stevenage Register Office
Danesgate
Stevenage
Hertfordshire
SG1 1WW

Tel 01438 316579

Watford Registration District

Watford Register Office
36 Clarendon Road
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD17 1JQ

Tel 01923 231302

Requests for Research and Photographs in this area

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

A list of members who have volunteered to do Research lookups or take photographs can be found in the Research Offers forum or on the following pages in the Wiki:

• Research Offers: Cemetery
• Research Offers: Photograph
• Research Offers: Probate
• Research Offers: Record Office/Archive

If any member wishes to offer to do lookups or take photographs in a particular location, please leave a message on our Volunteers Needed thread.

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