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North Hertfordshire, district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, southeastern England. It occupies the northern portion of the county. The 400-foot- (120-metre-) high plateau area of North Hertfordshire district is a northeasterly extension of the chalky Chiltern Hills. The district is cultivated throughout, but especially in the fertile loams and gravels around Hitchin in the west, where cereals (including wheat and barley) are grown. Letchworth, directly northeast of Hitchin, is the district’s largest town and administrative seat; it was founded in 1903 by Sir Ebenezer Howard, an idealist and social reformer, as the world’s first garden city. His company’s aim ...(100 of 220 words)

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