Watford information

Watford is a town and district in Hertfordshire, England, situated 21 miles (34 km) north-west of London and within the bounds of the M25 motorway. The borough lies just to the north of Greater London.
The parish of Watford Rural covers an area to the south of the borough of Watford (which is largely urbanised), in the Three Rivers District. The nearby areas of Bushey, Rickmansworth, Kings Langley, Abbots Langley, and Oxhey, located in Three Rivers and Hertsmere districts, form part of the Watford postcode area.
The most recent official estimates put the population of Watford at 79,300 at mid-2005.http://www.hertsdirect.org/infobase/docs/pdfstore/midyear05v1.pdf The borough had over 80,000 inhabitants at the time of the 2001 Census.http://www.hertsdirect.org/infobase/docs/pdfstore/keystatla01.pdf. The Watford urban area, which includes much of neighbouring Three Rivers, has a total population of 120,960, making it the 47th largest urban area in England.
Watford was created as an urban district under the Local Government Act 1894, and became a municipal borough by grant of a charter in 1922.
Modern Watford has something of a poor reputation. Two travel writers from guidebook publisher Lonely Planet - Watford natives Nick Ray and Mat Oakley - both single their hometown out for ridicule in the potted biographies that appear in their guidebooks. Ray describes Watford as "the sort of town that makes you want to travel". http://shop.lonelyplanet.com/authors.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673223105 (...) more....

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