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Hertford Castle Ice House is a castle, fort or tower in East Hertfordshire, England. Perhaps people packed snow into stone chambers before refrigerators existed, then carried bricks of ice to kitchens miles away. Maybe the building looked like a useless tower while performing one of the most useful jobs in a county. Imagine men walking past it in winter, heavy with sacks, breathing clouds in the dark.

A named place photographed at this map point in East Hertfordshire.

Hertford Castle Ice House was part of the historic Hertford Castle, originally built by the Normans in the 11th century, with the ice house itself likely constructed in the 18th or 19th century to store ice for the castle's use. It is remembered as a rare surviving example of an ice house associated with a medieval castle in England.