Hatfield is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield. It had a population of 29,616 in 2001, 39,201 at the 2011 Census, and 41,265 at the 2021 Census. The settlement is of Saxon origin. Hatfield House, home of the Marquess of Salisbury, forms the nucleus of the old town. From the 1930s when de Havilland opened a factory, until the 1990s when British Aerospace closed it, aircraft design and manufacture employed more people there than any other industry. Hatfield was one of the post-war New Towns built around London and has much modernist architecture from the period. The University of Hertfordshire is based there.
The Old Palace at Hatfield House
St Etheldreda's Church in Old Hatfield.
The Comet; the carving of the pillar is by Eric Kennington; the aircraft is not the original
Hatfield New Town centre, looking west along its axis.
Hertfordshire is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties. It borders Bedfordshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south and Buckinghamshire to the west. The largest settlement is Watford, and the county town is Hertford.
Image: Knebworth W front
Image: Berkhamsted Canal
Image: The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban
Peter de Wint, Cornfields near Tring Station, Hertfordshire, 1847, Princeton University Art Museum