Buntingford is a little market town and civil parish in the area of East Hertfordshire as well as region of Hertfordshire in England. It rests on the River Rib and on the Roman road Ermine Street. As a result of its area, it expanded mainly as a staging message with several mentoring inns as well as 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 community also has an annual firework screen at The Bury, offered by Buntingford Town Football Club. It is Hertfordshire's smallest community. The Prime Meridian passes to the east of Buntingford. The town has many Georgian and also medieval structures, such as Buntingford almshouses, Buntingford Manor House as well as the Red House. Buntingford was a stop-over on what was the main course in between London and Cambridge, currently the A10. Because of its desirability as a traveler community over the last few years, the town has grown substantially in the past few decades, [when?] one of the most noticeable current addition being the "Bovis Estate" (c. 1990), informally called after the real estate firm that built there; its highway is Luynes Rise, called due to the community's twinning with Luynes (near Tours) in France. Other real estate estates are: Freman Drive, Vicarage Road, Snells Mead, Downhall Ley, Monks Walk, and Kingfisher Park. Recently, the town has grown even more with more new growths, notably: 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 biggest duration of growth given that the 1960s when the previous Sainsbury's depot website was constructed and also real estate estates to sustain brand-new workers were constructed.