Hatfield, Hertfordshire (gbr)

Hatfield, Hertfordshire

Hatfield, Hertfordshire ranks 3,149th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Yogyakarta, Xiamen, and Broughton, Salford. Memorable people born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire include Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Guy Ritchie, and Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk. Memorable people who died in Hatfield, Hertfordshire include Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Michael Ventris, and Dennis Brain. Hatfield, Hertfordshire has been the birth place of many politicians, and film directors and the death place of many politicians, and architects. Hatfield, Hertfordshire is located in United Kingdom.

Hatfield is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield. It had a population of 29,616 in 2001, 39,201 at the 2011 Census, and 41,265 at the 2021 Census. The settlement is of Saxon origin. Hatfield House, home of the Marquess of Salisbury, forms the nucleus of the old town. From the 1930s when de Havilland opened a factory, until the 1990s when British Aerospace closed it, aircraft design and manufacture employed more people there than any other industry. Hatfield was one of the post-war New Towns built around London and has much modernist architecture from the period. The University of Hertfordshire is based there. Read more on Wikipedia