East Hertfordshire

East Hertfordshire, district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, southeastern England, at the northern edge of the Greater London Green Belt. Hertford is the administrative seat for the county of Hertfordshire but shares district administration with Bishop’s Stortford. The landscape is largely undulating and rural, characterized by medieval manor houses and thatched cottages. The River Lea, navigable to barge traffic from its outlet in the Thames in east-central London northward to the town of Hertford,...