Bishop's Stortford
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Phillimore & Company
Published: November 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781860773297
Subjects: Local history; History: World; History; History - General History; Hertfordshire; Europe - Great Britain - General; Bishop's Stortford (England)
Description: The first Roman settlers in the Bishop's Stortford area established the settlement which served soldiers and traders. The later Saxon settlement that evolved grew up above another ford on the river, which took its name from the town. The other part of the place-name came from the Bishop of London, under whose lordship Bishop's Stortford grew into a thriving market town, guarded by a castle.