A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



APPENDIX ON THE NAME ' COLDHARBOUR.' 



It has been shown in other volumes of the Victoria County History (see especially F.C.H. 

 Hants, 1, 349) that the name ' Coldharbour ' does not necessarily indicate a Roman site, as 

 is often supposed and stated. This is particularly true of Hertfordshire, where the name 

 occurs eight times, but only in one case (in Hemel Hempstead parish) near a known site of 

 a Roman dwelling-place. Some burials have been found close to another ' Coldharbour,' 

 but otherwise the name cannot be said to have any connexion with Roman finds in this 

 county, as the following hst will show : (i) In Sacombe parish, 6-in. O.S. Map Sheet No. xxi, 

 S.E. ; (2) Berkhampstead Common, Little Gaddesden parish, O.S. Sheet No. xxvi, S.W. ; 

 (3) Harpenden parish, O.S. Sheet No. xxvii, N.E. ; (4) Stanstead Abbots parish, O.S. Sheet 

 No. XXX, S.W. ; (5) Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead parish, O.S. Sheet No. xxxiii, S.E. ; (6) 

 Bishops Hatfield parish, O.S. Sheet No. xxxvi, S.W. ; (7) St. Stephen's parish, O.S. Sheet 

 No. xxxix, S.W. ; (8) in Bushey parish, O.S. Sheet No. xliv, N.E. 



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