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High Street and Market Street, Watford, Hertfordshire

Watford Watford is a large town in Hertfordshire and the county's biggest commercial centre. Official estimates put its population at around 80,000. Along with nearby villages such as Croxley Green, Bushey, Rickmansworth, and Abbots Langley, it is within the ring of the M25 motorway but distinct and separated from the vast conurbation to the south. The town stands on a low hill near the point at which the River Colne was forded by travellers between London and the Midlands; originally a pre-Roman trackway the route of which is still the line of the modern High Street. From small origins, Watford became an industrial hub and thence the Hertfordshire's major commercial town. (Read more)