Watford

Watford started as a settlement in the twelfth century when a market was conceded to the Abbot of St. Albans as the master of the estate. He picked a site along a course officially utilized by explorers, where the market kept on being held until 1928. The Abbot additionally organized the primary church to be manufactured adjoining the market: St Mary's, the area church of Watford.

Some of these passers-by have left confirmation of their opportunity here and this can be seen in Watford Museum. These incorporate rock apparatuses from the Stone Age, a Bronze Age accumulate and Anglo Saxon coins from the Tenth Century.

Little stays of medieval Watford separated from St Mary's Church. The most punctual household structures to survive are the Bedford Almshouses, worked close to the congregation in 1580. Like most Hertfordshire towns at this period, the vast majority of Watford's occupants would have been worried about cultivating the close-by fields.