Buntingford

Buntingford is a small market town and civil parish in the district of East Hertfordshire and county of Hertfordshire in England. It lies on the River Rib and on the Roman road Ermine Street. As a result of its location, it grew mainly as a staging post with many coaching inns and has an 18th-century one-cell prison known as The Cage, by the ford at the end of Church Street. It has a population of 5,378, as of the 2011 UK Census. The town also has an annual firework display at The Bury, presented by Buntingford Town Football Club. It is Hertfordshire's smallest town.

The town has many Georgian and medieval buildings, such as Buntingford almshouses, Buntingford Manor House and the Red House.
Buntingford was a stop-over on what was the main route between London and Cambridge, now the A10. Due to its desirability as a commuter town in recent years, the town has grown considerably in the past few decades, the most noticeable recent addition being the "Bovis Estate" , informally named after the housing firm that constructed there; its main road is Luynes Rise, named due to the town's twinning with Luynes in France. Other housing estates are: Freman Drive, Vicarage Road, Snells Mead, Downhall Ley, Monks Walk, and Kingfisher Park. Recently, the town has grown further with further new developments, notably: The Village, Meadow Vale, Knights Walk & The Maples. The population of Buntingford is expected to rise by 1,500 to 6,500 inhabitants by 2021, marking the largest period of development since the 1960s when the former Sainsbury's depot site was constructed and housing estates to support new workers were constructed.

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