North Watford Cemetery

The earliest record for the town of Watford documents a charter granted by King Henry I to hold a market in Watford. Until the 19th century, Watford was a small town and the area to the north Watford was little more than farmland and manorial estates, owned by the Earls of Essex and the Earls of Clarendon. Census documents from the 1880s show that much of the farmland belonged to Callowland Farm and Bushey Hall Farm. In 1833 the London and Birmingham Railway began to construct its new long-distance railway line through Watford which opened in 1838 between and . The advent of the railway improved links to London and other cities and made Watford attractive to industry; as a result, the need…