I don't suppose that anyone's really interested, but Bishop's Stortford was in the fiefdom of the Bishop of London, and a castle (known as Waytemore Castle) was built to defend the ford on the river Stort that was on the ancient Stane Street road that ran from Colchester (Camulodunum) to (I think) St Albans (Verulamium). Only the castle mound and the name of the town remains to remind of this.

Alan