The Mayor's Chain :: The Mayor's Chain and Badge of Office :: HertfordTownCouncil :: Hertford Town Council is based at Hertford Castle;a civil wedding venue and rooms to hire. Family events throughout the year. The council is responsible for allotments Hertford Cemetery and the Tourist Information Centre.

In 1880, Earl Cowper, K.G., (High Steward, and the then Member of Parliament for the Borough) and Arthur James Balfour, presented to the Corporation, a Gold Badge, bearing a replica of the Bourough Seal to be worn as a symbol of Office by successive Mayors.

The Gold Chain from which the Badge is suspended consists of 54 links and a clasp which have been presented by, or in memory of, Past Mayors, Town Clerks and others. Each link is engraved with the name of the person it commemorates.

With the Chain and Badge, the Gold Pendant is worn. This is enamelled and jewelled with amethysts. It was presented by members of the Corporation in 1897 in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

The smaller Gold Chain from which the pendant is suspended was presented by Alderman Alexander Purkiss-Ginn in 1926; it was a Christmas gift to him from members of his family during his Mayoralty in the preceding year.