A County of Small Towns contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

List of Tables xiii

Preface and Acknowledgements xv

1 Panoramas and microcosms: Hertfordshire’s towns through both ends of the telescope 1

Terry Slater and Nigel Goose

2 Urban origins: location, topography and the documentary record 27

Tom Williamson

3 The economy of towns and markets, 1100 to 1500 46

Mark Bailey

4 Roads, commons and boundaries in the topography of Hertfordshire towns 67

Terry Slater

5 Urban growth and economic development in early modern Hertfordshire 96

Nigel Goose

6 Hertford and Ware: archaeological perspectives from birth to middle age 127

Clive Partridge

7 Ashwell: an example of Anglo-Saxon town planning 159

David Short

8 Royston: a thirteenth-century planned town? 173

Douglas Plowman

9 Manorial estate and market town: the early development of Hitchin 188

Bridget Howlett

10 Influences on the growth and development of medieval and early modern Berkhamsted 224

Jennifer Sherwood

11 Boundaries, margins and the delineation of the urban: the case of Barnet 249

Pamela Taylor

12 The establishment and development of Watford 276

Mary Forsyth

13 Alban to St Albans, AD 800 to 1820 301

David Dean

14 The influence of the Dissolution on Hertfordshire’s towns in the sixteenth century 333

Nicholas Doggett

15 The impact of industry on the market towns of east Hertfordshire 362

Tony Crosby

Bibliography 385

Index 405