Hertfordshire

HERTFORDSHIRE, often shortened into Herts, is an inland shire, in the south-east of England, and is bounded on the north by Cambridgeshire, south by Middlesex. east by Essex, north-west by Bedfordshire, and south-east by Buckinghamshire: it is of irregular form, of no peculiar natural features, and lies between 51° 36' and 52° 5' of north latitude, and 0° 13' east and 0° 45' west longitude: it is one of the smallest shires in England, both for size and population, though by no means inconsiderable: it measures 37½ miles from east to west, and 31 from north to south, and the greatest length, which is from Royston to Rickmansworth, from north-east to southwest, is 39 miles.