Buntingford is a small market town as well as civil parish in the district of East Hertfordshire and also area of Hertfordshire in England. It rests on the River Rib as well as on the Roman road Ermine Street. As a result of its location, it expanded generally as a staging message with many coaching inns and has an 18th-century one-cell prison called The Cage, by the ford at the end of Church Street. It has a population of 4,820. The town also has an annual firework screen at The Bury, provided by Buntingford Town Football Club. It is Hertfordshire's smallest town. The Prime Meridian passes to the east of Buntingford. The town has numerous Georgian as well as middle ages structures, such as Buntingford almshouses, Buntingford Manor House and also the Red House. Buntingford was a stop-over on what was the major route in between London and Cambridge, currently the A10. Because of its worth as a commuter community over the last few years, the community has actually grown substantially in the past few years, [when?] one of the most obvious current enhancement being the "Bovis Estate" (c. 1990), informally named after the housing company that built there; its main road is Luynes Rise, called as a result of the community'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. Lately, the town has expanded additionally with more new developments, especially: The Village, Meadow Vale, Knights Walk & The Maples. The population of Buntingford is expected to increase by 1,500 to 6,500 inhabitants by 2021, noting the biggest duration of advancement because the 1960s when the previous Sainsbury's depot site was built and real estate estates to sustain new employees were created.