Introduction

Strange Old Maps

Thomas Baskerville [a 17th century traveller through Hertfordshire]

Ancient Manor of Hatfield Woodhall

James Ripley, Barnet Ostler and Author

The Mill House at Welwyn

Digswell Viaduct [a major Victorian railway engineering feet]

William Ellis incognito [18th century farmer and writer of Little Gaddesdon]

Whitwell Hoo

Lockley's and the man who hared noise [Lockley's is a fine Queen Anne period House at Welwyn]

Hertfordshire Beacons [16th/17th communication beacons on church towers]

Catchpenny Catnach [Early 19th century printer from South Mymms]

Jo Haynes [17th century actor and quack doctor]

Manor of Mardleybury [at Woolmer Green]

Thomas Kitchin, engraver of St Albans

First man to fly in England [The baloon flight of Vincenzo Lunardi in 1784]

Panshanger and the Cowpers 

Theatrical Scenes

Gulliver's travels through Hertfordshire

The Wymondley's and the Coronation Cup

The Battle of Barnet

Mother of 39 children [Elizabeth Greenhill of Abbots Langley]

Highwaymen's Highway

Welwyn and The Frythe