CLXXXIII. LONDON TO WARE AND HERTFORD, BY RAILWAY, 26 Miles. 19 Hoddesdon, a small market town, 17 miles from London, and 4 miles to the south-east of Hertford. Pop. 1851, 1854. (See p. 381). Haileybury College, 2 miles, belonging to the 20 East India Company. Amwell, a pretty village (see p.387). A votive urn, surrounded by a 22 thicket ofevergreens, was erected here in 1800, to 241 the memory of Sir Hugh Myddleton, by whose patriotic exertions the waters of New River were originally conveyed to the metropolis. Balls Park, Marquis of 26 Townshend; Brickendonbury, and beyond.j Panshanger (Earl Cowper). built in the time of Charles I., and is now a school. At the east end of the town is an establishment belonging to Christ's Hospital (popularly known as the Blue Coat School), London, and used as a preparatory school for younger children, who are received here prior to their admission to the metropolitan establishment. It is a large building, capable of accomodating 600 children. Hertford is a pleasant, busy, and respectable town. Its principal trade is in mealing and malting. Two M.P. Pop. 1851, 6605. CLXXXIV. LONDON TO HUNTINGDON, BY RAILWAY, 77 Miles. CLXXXV. LONDON TO MARCH AND WISBEACH, BY RAILWAY, 100 Miles. |