Bishop's Stortford Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Bishop's Stortford is a town in Hertfordshire, England. It is situated just west of junction 8 of the M11, is the closest town to London Stansted Airport, and is at the heart of East Anglia's "commuter belt"It has a population of about 30,000 and is administered by the East Hertfordshire district council.
Bishop's Stortford is the birthplace of Cecil Rhodes, born in 1853 and the effective founder of the state of Rhodesia, De Beers diamond company and the Rhodes Scholarship.
It is also the birthplace of Frederick Scott Archer who invented the collodion process, the first photographic emulsion used to create glass negatives.