Hertfordshire (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

Herbert Winckworth Tompkins (1867-? ) was a British author primarily of travel and guide books. His works include: Highways and Byways in Hertfordshire (1902), Hertfordshire (1903), Marsh-Country Rambles (1904), Stratford on Avon (1904), Selborne (1905), The Complete Idler (1905), In Constable's Country (1906), Constable (Little Books on Art) (1908), Red Reuben (1912), The Church in Wales: An Appeal to Liberal Churchmen (1912), Autolycus in Arcady: From the Journal of a Wandering Bookman, Set Down Between Guildford and New Romsey (1914), Companion into Essex (1938) and Companion into Suffolk (1949). Hertfordshire, or Herts, is a county in the S. E. of England. On the S. it is bounded by Middlesex; on the S. W. by Buckinghamshire; on the N. W. by Bedfordshire; on the N. by Cambridgeshire; on the E. by Essex. Its extreme measurement from due E. to W., say from Little Hyde Hall to Puttenham, is about 38 miles; from N. to S., from Mobb's Hole at the top of Ashwell Common to a point just S. of Totteridge Green, about 30 miles; but a longer line, 36 miles in length, may be drawn from Mobb's Hole to Troy Farm in the S. W. Its boundaries are very irregular; the neighbourhood of Long Marston is almost surrounded by Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, that of Hinxworth by Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire, and that of Barnet by Middlesex.