This was in effect until the area was recaptured by the English about 917 under Wessex King Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great.

[4] In 1066 the local Saxon lord is recorded as Thor, a common Scandinavian name that may have dated back to the Viking invasions of several centuries prior.

By 1086 the Saxons had been ousted by the Normans and Gilbert the Cook was Lord and Tenant-in-Chief of Watford and another parish.

The Barony and Watford with it passed to the husband of one of Baldwin's daughters, Hugo Wac, who became the Baron of Brunn succeeding his wife's father.

Watford has extensive settlement remains for an earlier form of the village in the medieval era.

[5][6][7] It is possible that the original phrase referred to the much larger town of Watford in Hertfordshire, which was the last urban stop on the main railway line out of London to the north of England.

The Historic England website contains details of 21 listed buildings and one scheduled monument in the parish of Watford.

Thomas Rogers became a citizen of Leiden on 25 June 1618, and records state he was a merchant of camlet cloth (a combination of silk and camelhair).

[14][self-published source][15][16] Thomas Rogers and his son Joseph, aged about 18, went to North America on the Pilgrim ship Mayflower in 1620, while his other children remained in the Netherlands.