WATFORD, a town of Hertfordshire, England. Pop. (1930 56,799. The church of St. Mary contains good monumental work of the early 17th century. There are large breweries, also corn mills, malt-kilns and an iron foundry. Bushey, on the south side of the Colne, is a suburb, chiefly residential, with a station on the L.M.S. line. The church of St. James, extensively restored by Sir Gilbert Scott, has an Early English chancel. Here a school of art
founded by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, R.A., was closed in 1904, and subsequently revived in other hands. Other institutions are the Royal Caledonian asylum and the London Orphan asylum. At Aldenham, 2 m. N.E., the grammar school founded in 1599 now ranks as one of the minor English public schools.