Watford Through Time

Watford is situated between the Rivers Gade and Colne, fifteen miles north-west of London in what Charles Lamb, the eighteenth-century English essayist, once called ''hearty, homely, loving Hertfordshire''. A Saxon chief named Wata is believed to have settled where the existing Lower High Street crosses the Colne, and this came to be known as Wata''s Ford, later shortened to Watford. Watford Throu...