Hertfordshire was the front line of battles by the Danes to take control of the country, with the Danes sailing their boats along the Thames in London, and up to river Lea into Hertford where battles took place.

Garden City developments play a strong role in the development of Hertfordshire, and it was the first Garden City in the world at Letchworth that was seen by the world as the new way to develop cities for people to live, work and enjoy leisure activities in.

The first new town in Britain, Stevenage was designated as such in 1947 after the New Towns act was passed. Since then many other New Towns have been developed copying the methods used to develop Stevenage. Hatfield and Hemel Hempstead are other examples of New Towns in Hertfordshire that were built to take the ever increasing population of London after the second world war.

The new towns were based on the ideas of Ebenezer Howard, and allowed the careful planning of towns which combined housing, shopping, industry and leisure services, and to make a pleasant location for people to carry out their day to day lives.

In the early 1990's Hertfordshire was hit by unemployment due to recession in the UK and the closing of the British Aerospace plants in Hatfield and Stevenage. Since then the entire county has recovered well, with unemployment levels at a lower rate than before the closures and recession, all helped by the wide variety of jobs available, and the emergence of new High Tech industries, such as Computing and Pharmaceutical businesses which have moved to the county.

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