Buntingford is a little market community and also civil parish in the district of East Hertfordshire and also county of Hertfordshire in England. It rests on the River Rib and on the Roman road Ermine Street. As a result of its area, it grew primarily as a hosting article with many mentoring inns and has an 18th-century one-cell prison known as The Cage, by the ford at the end of Church Street. It has a population of 4,820. The town additionally has a yearly firework display screen at The Bury, provided by Buntingford Town Football Club. It is Hertfordshire's tiniest town. The Prime Meridian passes to the eastern of Buntingford. The town has several Georgian as well as medieval buildings, such as Buntingford almshouses, Buntingford Manor House as well as the Red House. Buntingford was a stop-over on what was the primary path in between London as well as Cambridge, now the A10. Because of its charm as a traveler community in the last few years, the town has grown significantly in the past couple of years, [when?] one of the most obvious current addition being the "Bovis Estate" (c. 1990), informally called after the real estate firm that built there; its main road is Luynes Rise, called because of the town's twinning with Luynes (near Tours) in France. Other housing estates are: Freman Drive, Vicarage Road, Snells Mead, Downhall Ley, Monks Walk, and Kingfisher Park. Recently, the community has actually grown additionally with further new developments, significantly: The Village, Meadow Vale, Knights Walk & The Maples. The population of Buntingford is anticipated to climb by 1,500 to 6,500 citizens by 2021, noting the largest period of growth because the 1960s when the former Sainsbury's depot site was built as well as real estate estates to support brand-new employees were created.