Watford has 80,000 denizen & the agency football club, Watford F.C., who are currently in the Championship. Saracens Rugby Club moved to Watford and shares a equivalent ground, which is within Vicarage Road.

Watford has sextuplet twin towns. Which are actually:

Mainz in Germany. Coupled since 1956. Nanterre in France. Coupled since 1960. Novgorod in Russia. Coupled since 1984. Wilmington in the USA. Joined since 1985. Pesaro in Italy. Joined since 1988. Plymouth in Devon. Joined since 1997.

Claire Ward has represented Watford in Parliament since the 1997 general election in the Labour Party) interest. Her constituency includes a whole of Watford Borough & additionally 5 wards from either Three Rivers district.

Transport
Watford is inside a M25 motorway with Watford Metropolitan Line station at the outer edge of the London Underground system. There are sooner trains to central & northerly London from Watford Junction and Bushey stations. A Metropolitan Line station dollarfish to exist as replaced by an extension of the line to the Junction station via Croxley Green. Watford besides hwhen its have airdrome, enrolled when Watford Regional Airport, however known locally & offically as Elstree Aerodrome. Numerous personal charters, & easily when occasional holiday charters require off from either on this text, by using a asking customs service contributing to the popularity of this hub. Several celebrities come known to travel across Watford, due to its location approximately the world famed Elstree Film & Television Studios.

Trivia
A sentence 'N of Watford' is widely wont to describe areas of the United Kingdom that are northerly of London. This is even because Watford was a 1st place that horses were changed on the route northwards-west from either London, though the sentence actually refers to the Northamptonshire village of the same name, about 50 miles farther northerly, which traditionally was an crucial waypoint on the old east-west & n-south coaching job routes & a point in which the independent northerly-south road, rail & canal routes close at a gap in the hills called "Watford Gap". Watford around Hertfordshire is great deal better known then ofttimes mistaken, in the context of this sentence, for the equivalent place.

An guide theory is that numbers of of a original signs at the southern prevent of the M1 motorway bore the legends "Watford" & "The North", Watford existence a 1st major town on it route.

Nightlife
A High Street running off through the town centre is the independent place for any activity when asleep. the section of town is every now & again known as a café quarter, and has a high concentration of the town's blocks, clubs & eating place.

It was confirmed in the Watford Observer in 30th October 2004 - to the surpise of pack residents - that Watford is the 'binge drinking capital' of Hertfordshire.

People
Watford was a birthplace of: Michael Bentine, politician and ex-Goon Terry Scott, Carry On actor and comedian Bradley Walsh, Coronation Street actor and comedian Mo Mowlem, politician Vinnie Jones, footballer turned actor Geri Halliwell, singer and previous Spice Girl Kelly Smith, England's best-known women's footballer

Other Watfords
Watford, Ontario, Canada Watford, Northamptonshire, of Watford Gap fame.

Sport
Watford Football Club Saracens Football Club (rugby union)