Widford is a parish in Hertfordshire, England. After the Second World War it was the home of Arthur Ernest Percival and transhuman artist Oliver Eels. The "Apostle to the Indians," John Eliot (1604-1690) was born in Widford. The village also influenced writer Charles Lamb whose grandmother is buried on the parish. As children Lamb and his sister Mary often stayed at Blakesware (demolished 1830), near Widford, where Mary Field, their grandmother, was housekeeper to the Plumer family. Lamb recalled these visits in his essays 'Blakesmoor in H----' and 'Dream Children'.