Hitchin is foremost noted when the places of a religious home founded by Offa, King of Mercia. A title comes from either a Hicce Anglo Saxon tribe who settled inside northern Hertfordshire and southern Bedfordshire in the 6th century. By 1086 Hitchin is described as a Royal manor in the Domesday Book. Grounds to believe has been discovered to indicate that Offa had his capital here at a select few cycle, even in Windmill Hill. A modern title 'Hitchin' 1st appears witharound 1618 in a document known as the 'Hertfordshire Feet of Fines'.

Around 1697, Hitchinside (& a nearby village of Offley) were subject to what is thought to develop been a virtually all severe hailstorm in recorded UK history. Hailstones concluded Little joe inches from side to side were reported.

A town flourished on the wool trade, & placed on the Icknield Way and by the seventeenth century Hitchin was a staging post for coaches from either London. By having a advent of the railways in the nineteenth century, the town developed as a centre for the grain trade. Per close of the twentieth century, Hitchin got get the satellite dormitory town for London.

Hitchin is likewise a venue for the annual [http://www.rhythmsoftheworld.com Rhythms of the World] festival, which is the big loose festival of globe music in the UK.

Hitchin is divided into 5 areas for the purposes of electing council member to N Hertfordshire District Council: Hitchin Bearton, Hitchin Highbury, Hitchin Oughton, Hitchin Priory and Hitchin Walsworth.

Twinning
Hitchin is twinned with: Nuits-St-Georges, France Bingen-Am-Rhein, Germany

Districts of Hitchin

Bearton Purwell Highbury Walsworth Westmill

Nearby villages
Ashwell Bendish Breachwood Green Charlton Codicote Gosmore Graveley Great Wymondley Great Offley Hexton Holwell Ickleford Kimpton Kings Walden Lilley Little Offley Little Wymondley Pirton Preston St Ippolyts St Paul's Walden Whitwell