Edith's Streets

Turkey Brook - Forty Hall

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TurkeyBrook
Turkey Brook flows south eastwards

Post to the west Enfield

Baker Street

467 Eliza House. A care home once known as EnfieldHouse. The initials ‘JFR 1880’ on thebuilding indicate John Frederick Ridler, a local butcher after whom RidlerRoad, adjacent, is named.

Clay Hill
The Old Course of the New River at the foot of ClayHill, where it meets Forty Hill and where there was a pool

FortyGreen.
This is a triangular open space at the junction ofBaker Street, Carterhatch Lane, and Forty Hill. It is probably named for a Richardatte Forteye had an estate here in the 14^th. A number of grandhouses were built around the green from the 16^th including GarrettsPlace for Samuel Starling, the White House, Brigadier Hall for William Bridger,and Adelaide House. While these have been demolished others remain with addressesin Forty Hill

FortyHall
Grounds. There is a gardenwith lilac and limes and landscapedgrounds, with a cedar on the lawn. Apair of lime avenues frames a view of the house, and there are substantialwater features.
Elsyng Hall. It had been thought that Elsyng Manor House had been on a different site from the later RoyalPalace of Elsyng, but it is now know they were the same since theremains of a timber-framed building were under the brick structure. The housewas rebuilt by Sir Thomas Lovell, Speaker and Chancellor of the Exchequer, on a grand scale. It was in the area of the lime avenue. It was used as a royal residence from c. 1540 and rebuilton very considerable scale. Elizabeth lived there when heraccession was announced in 1547 and returned to stay there occasionally. It wasdemolished after 1656 and after the building of Forty Hall. The area includesthat of the Manor or Worcesters in the same ownership.
Forty Hall. A mansion ofred brick, built for Nicholas Raynton, Haberdasher and Lord Mayor of London,1632. 1629 is given as the date inside. The Arms of the Bowles family are in astaircase window. The last owner was Banks who sold it to Enfield for a museum- and they opened the gardens and the walk down to the house in 1962 andrestored the house as a Museum of Local Antiquities. Over thekitchen is a room with 17th panelling. The service court brick buildings are 17thbut have been changed into a restaurant. Both fronts have substantial wooden porches. In between the rooms is agrand 19th stair which must be on the site of the 17th one but arrangeddifferently. The Raynton Room was sited in the 18th cross-passage.
Cedar of Lebanon in front of the house may have beenpart of Nicholas Raynton’s landscaping.
Forty Hall Farm. Tenanted by Capel Manor College.
Garden Building. A smallbuilding in the corner of the farm courtyardappears to be contemporary with the wall. It may have been a warrener's cottage with a large window overlookingthe Warren.
Barns belonging to the Farm, 17th timber framed, weather boardedbarn and another across the courtyard
Farm Wall. Lengths of17th red brick wall
Bullock Shed. An 18thtimber-framed open sided shelter for livestock.
Barn and a shed from the 19th outside thecourtyard, but part of the home farmcomplex.
Bothy - A small building 19th building in the Rick Yard.
Saw mill built 1895-1911
Farm cottages built in the 1950s
Warren - A field with this name was west of themain buildings
Kitchen Garden to the south-west of the houseenclosed by a brick wall
Pond to the north of the house dating from the late17th. There was a nearby viewing mound and plantings and shrybberies.
Raised walk - there are remains of raised walks throughoutthe site and in particular in the area of the ferme orne and also of paths intothe estate
Forty Hall vineyard, planted on twolarge, south-facing fields at the top of Forty Hill

Forty Hill
Continuation of Green Lane – and was a drove road intoLondon. There was a hamlet here in the 16^thand by the 18^th its elevated position attracted gentry.
29 Dower House and Atherton House 17th altered in the18th. In Red brick and now two houses.This was part of the Forty Hall Estate until 1787. A panelled room inside has apainting of c. 1600. Old garden walls 18^th in redbrick with two stone coped gate piers
70 -76 Cottage Place terraceof 1833 cottages in Yellow brick there is a Plaque on the centre one is"COTTAGE PLACE 1833". Faced a littlegreen. .
78 Hermitage.House of 1704. Front rooms with original panelling.Weather boarded timber-framed outbuildings attached. Forecourt and gardenwalls from the 18^th in red brick walls with small iron gate. Stablebuilding timber-framed weather boarded
Bridge House. A purposebuilt care home replacing an older house.
Canister Lodge. Is said to have some resemblance to a teacanister. 19^th stuccoed thin building with four giant arches on the frontage.
Chimneys Lodge. This is the old Goat Inn. Much half timbering on a ‘Tudor; pub built 1932. It replaced a17^th or older pub. A garden area is on the site of a gravel quarry.
Clock House. A 19th stuccoed house right on the road.
Clock House Nursery. Set up in 1928
Elsynge Houseand Elsynge cottage. House built in several periods, now dividedinto two.
Forty Hall Entrance has 18th stone gate piers withswags, all in brick carrying obelisks and balls, flanked by battlemented walls,which look towards c18.
Forty Hall Lodge half-timbered 1903. It replaced a lodge on the same site.
Forty Hill House. Large 19^th house in yellowbrick with a stone coped parapet concealing the roof.
Gates. At thebottom of the hill are a set of gates to a house which has now gone. This was Pattensware, Gough Park home ofwriter Richard Gough until 1809. In 1860 when the course of the New River was changedthe gates were moved here so that some of the old river could be included inthe estate. In 1899 the house was demolished
Goat Tavern wason the corner of Goat Lane, opposite Worcesters Lodge, until replaced by anotherpub of the same name to the south.
Longbourne.Stucco building from the 18th. It has also been called The Elms. 18th red brick wall with ironrailings.
Sparrow Hall, 18th house altered in the 19th.
Waltham Cottage, 18th villa in dark brick
Worcesters Lodge,18th house in red brick

Goat Lane
A few cottages remain.
Worcesters Primary School, established in 1954

MyddletonAvenue
The Old Course of the New River Ran through the gardensof Pattensware, now demolished

New River
New River, the oldcourse crosses Turkey Brook and disappears at the junction of Clay Hill andForty Hill. It has been built on over some of the length to the current course.

Old ForgeRoad
A forge once stood at the Forty Lane junction

Russell Road
Bridgen Hall. This is at the junction of Hallside Road. It was the homeof William Bridgen, Lord Mayor of London in 1764.Post to the north Whitewebbs

Turkey Brook - Whitewebbs Lane

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Turkey Brook
The Turkey Brookflows eastwards and is joined by a tributary from the north.

Post to the north Theobalds Manor
Post to the west Whitewebbs Park
Post to the south Forty Hall

Forty Hall Grounds
This, northernarea of Forty Hall grounds was part of Elsyng New Park which surrounding Elsyng Manor House and had been enclosed fromEnfield Chase as a deer park bythe Earl of Rutland, before1548. It was surrounded by earth banks and fences
Lake south of TurkeyBrook. This was formed from ponds which were probably medieval fishponds, associated with the manor house and disused by the 16^th.
Rectangularponds which are assumed to be part of the 18th landscaping
Island –therewas an island in the centre of the lake in the 18^th. This appears tohave been brick-built and could have been the remains of a summer house.
Boat house – this was at the east end of the lake and has been discoveredby excavations.
Mound to the west of the lake– maybe made up of spoil and maybe at one time turned into a viewing platform.
Water Gardens.These were adapted from the medieval fish ponds for Nicholas Rainton in the 17^th. A series of weirs were installed to create largerareas of water
Lime Avenue. Theavenue was probably built as part of the works commissioned by NicholasRaintain. Most of the present trees are probably replacements.
Weir andbridge abutments on the Turkey Brook. These are the best preserved of what wereprobably several bridges into the estate over the brook. They are the pointwhere the Lime Avenue crosses it, and these may be the site of amedieval bridge.
Two drainageditches and conduits north of TurkeyBrook which cross the line of the Lime Avenue and must have been part ofthe original walk
Archery Wood. Saidto have been used for archery practice
Loop to theNew River from Whitewebbs Pumping Station to Maiden Brook. This ended at theedge of Archery Wood where there was a stopcock in a manhole and wherea line of bricks delineated a basin. This was itself connected to a sluice andto the new river and was part of a system which allowed for interchange andflushing when necessary. The Loopwas filled in with debris from the Victoria Line tube and Southgate PoliceStation.
Olloways Meadow– field name north of the Cuffley Brook.
Carrion PitBottom. Field name north of the Cuffley Brook. The loop from the WhitewebbsPumping Station to Maiden Brook ran through here.
Black BushBottom. Field name north of the Cuffley Brook. The loop from the WhitewebbsPumping Station to Maiden Brook ran through here.
Dickinson’sTrough Meadow. Field name north of the Cuffley Brook.
Camp Field. Fieldname north of the Cuffley Brook.

Whitewebbs Park

New River – the old course of the New River runs southeastwards in the park. There is sometimes water in some parts of it, especiallyin wet weather.
Whitewebbs Park Golf Course. This is a public golfcourse owned and run by the local authority
Whitewebbs Hamlet. This lay deep in the woods on the track way running south of the pub. In the wood ditches can be seen and there is a a pond and rhe remains of an orchard.

Whitewebbs Lane
Thisused to be called Hare Lane because of the connection with the Gunpowder Plot withWhitewebbs House. In the early 18^th there was a gate in the lane atthe pub, and the lane itself turned south to get westward.
Roam Cottage – part of a medieval settlement oncecalled Romey Street
King and Tinker Inn. Supposed to havebeen a pub here for 1000 years. Builtcould be 16^th or 17 but there were 18^th alterations. Theentrance seemed to have a medieval manor house door and a bar with an oversizedstone fireplace and heavy oak beams. Its name comes from a ballad about King JamesI meeting a tinker whilst hunting and goimg to the pub. When the courtiers findthe King, the tinker discovers who his new friend is and James I knighted him. At one time this was called The Bull. It does not face onto WhitewebbsLane, indicating that the road once turned a south here
GuyLodge Farm. This is said to be the site of the original Whitewebbs House andnamed after the association with Guy Fawkes.

Turkey Brook - Cuffley Brook - Whitewebbs Park

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Cuffley Brook
TheCuffley Brook flows south east and joins the Turkey Brook from the south. AsTurkey Brook then flows eastwards it is sometimes known as Maiden Brook

Post to the north Whitewebbs
Post to the south Enfield
Post to the west Whitewebbs
Post to the east Whitewebbs

Flash Lane
The name comes from a ‘flash’ onCuffley Brook installed to be tapped to fill the New River if needed. The laneruns on the line of the eastern boundary of Enfield Chase
Cast iron Aqueduct. This is a two-span, cast-iron trough onbrick piers. It was built 1821 to carry the New River over the Cuffley Brookand to bypass the end of the loop. The ironwork was cast by Hunter and Englishof Bow.
TheCot. This was originally a chapel and school built for people in the area by the building of which was in part financed by the owner ofClaysmore House, Mr J. W. Bosanquet. Hewas the founder of the Protestant Association, established to counter theOxford Movement,

New River
Theoriginal course of the New River ran westwards through Whitewebbs Park as faras the lake, and then turned south eastwards to cross what is now Flash Lane.

Wildwood Estate
Lake. The owner of Claysmore House in the 19^th, Edmund Harman^, bought a loop of the old course of the New River and wanted to make a lake of it and the Cuffley Brook. The cast iron aqueduct in Flash Lane was built to achieve this
Cuffley Brook. As the brook leaves thelake in the water is the remains of a stone trough– this was built by RobertMylne built in 1775 to replace the timber ‘flash’ aqueduct which took the brookover the New River and which had been built by Myddleton on the original oldcourse.
Iron marker. North of the lake with 'NR Co.' on it
Bridge at the west end ofthe lake. This is a 19th ornamental footbridge of multi-coloured bricks laidunevenly for a ‘rustic’ effect.
The stream from the north used to carrywater from Whitewebbs Pumping Station but it is on private land.

Whitewebbs Park.
The land was part of Enfield Chase, butpreviously common land. It was given by Elizabeth I in 1570 to her physician,Dr Huicks, plus Whitewebbs House. After the house was demolished in the late 18^ththe estate was bought an agricultural innovator, Dr Abraham Wilkinson. In 1931 the estate was bought from Sir Duncan Orr-Lewisby Enfield Urban District Council and Middlesex County Council and made intothe public golf course. In 1955 the district council acquired the estateto form Whitewebbs Park
Ahouse called Whitewebbs was in the area by the 16^th owned by Robert Huickethe doctor who built a conduit for water supply to his it. This house was later associated with theGunpowder Plot since Guy Fawkes visited there the night before the plot. It then had a succession of owners. Iteventually passed to the Garnault family and then Henry Bowles, after which itwas demolished. It is said to have been nearMyddelton House possibly on the site of the current Guy Lodge.
WhitewebbsHouse. An estate called Whitewebbs farm wasbought by Dr. Abraham Wilkinson, in the early 19th. He built the core of the existing house in1791, which became known as Wilkinson’s Woods. It was later enlarged by Charles Stuart Robertson as a dressed up FrenchChateau. In the 1930s it was used as aMiddlesex County Council old people’s home for 70 old men. They had a bowling green in the grounds and couldlook at the Middlesex County Council Golf Course, next door ‘giving them anattractive outlook’. It is now aToby Carvery
Whitewebbs Golf Club – the club house is to the south
North Lodge - VictorianGothic building
Conduit house. Remains from 16^th
Weir on the old course of the New Riverin a Shrubbery west of the golf course.
Tree lined ditch. Marks the line of theold course of the New River
WhitewebbsWood. Modified ancient woodland in a corner of Whitewebbs Park. The wood lieson clay acidic soil on a South facing slope. Dominant species are coppiced oakand hornbeam plies alder, mature and ash with some wild service tree.
Filterbed for sewage

Whitewebbs Road
Sloemans Farm
Congregational Chapel. Registered in1861 by the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. This closed in 1959 but thesite is identifiable west of the King and Tinker pub.

Turkey Brook - Enfield

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TurkeyBrook
TurkeyBrook flows north eastwards

Post to the west Chase Farm
Post to the north Whitewebbs Park
Post to the east Forty Hall

Beggar’sHollow
Theold course of the New River crosses slightly north of the golf club car park. There is said to be a bridge which carries the road over it.
SouthLodge to Whitewebbs Estate. A housepainted pink confection. This is a 19^thcottage orne with bargeboards, a patterned roof and battlemented chimneys.
Claysmore Lodge. 18^th single storey house. Lodge to Claysmore House, now gone.
WhitewebbsGolf Course and Clubhouse. The golfcourse was built by Hawtree and J.H.Taylor Ltd, and opened in 1932

BirkbeckRoad
TheBirkbeck Freehold Land Society bought some land from the Connop family andbefore 1887 laid out ten streets. This was called New Enfield but remained underoccupied initially.

BrigadierHill
Theroad follows the boundary of Enfield Chase. This may have been named after a BrigadierFranks who lived locally in 1772
30A St Faith's Cottage. 18^th house with 19^thshop front
Brigadier Free Church – evangelical churchwhich is the name of what is also Brigadier Hallyouth centre.
36part of the Brigadier Youth Centre; it has been decorated with mosaic.

BrodieRoad
Laidout 1896

BrowningRoad
Formerly known as Cocker Lane this name wasused in the late 18^th. The name Browning Road derives from a RichardBrowning who lived on Brigadier Hill and originally only applied to the lengthsouth of Phipps Hatch Lane.
Cedar Park Nursery. In what is now calledHymus House which was the rectory to St. Luke's built 1900 by James Brooks.
Church of St Luke the Evangelist and its parish room. Built 1899by James Brooks in red brick with a tower and spire.
Brigadier Hill House previously occupied thesite. - This was an 18^th house, since demolished, but which stood onthe site of the church. Browning Road Estate now covers the area of thegrounds.

BurlingtonRoad
Laidout 1896

ClayHill
This road name was in use in the 16^th. It is probably thename of a medieval resident. ‘Clayhyil’ as an old name may seem self-explanatory– but the soil here is not clay! So it is thought to be associated with Williamatte Cleye in 1274. In the 16^tha stretch of it was called Bridge Street – referring to the crossing of theTurkey Brook.
Telephone Kiosk K6. This is near the junction with BrowningRoad.
Claysmore. The name is that of an earlier name for the area. A housewith that name was built in the 19th and became the home if James Bosanquet whofinanced the building of St. John's church. In 1896 it became a school foundedby Alexander Devine which moved elsewhere in 1902. The house burntdown in 1930.
BraysideFarm – equestrian facilities. The farm is on the site of Claysmore House.
BramleyHouse. Built in 1750in brown brick. There are extensions on either side from the 19^thand 20^th. The house was originally known as Great Pipers. It became a private mental home in 1913 andin 1930 was taken over by Middlesex County Council, for handicapped females –as a ‘Certified Institute’, and where they made rugs and socks for thehospital at Shenley. In 1948 it joined the NHS aspart of the South Ockendon Hospital Management Committee. It closed in 1977. Since 1982, it has been BramleyHouse Court, providing sheltered accommodation. There is a date plaque on themain building '1881' and there is a turret on the roof which appears to containa wheel.
The Cottages - these may once have been lodge building for BramleyHouse
Woodhury. This was built as ClayHill House for Joseph Toms of Derry and Toms. It lies in grounds with Victorianplanting. It is an Italianate house of1860 in pale brick. Now a residential care home.
Clay Hill Lodge. 19th ornamental lodge now divided into two.
Kingswood–equestrian facilities
LittlePipers. This lies behind a high wall andis a 19th casing on an older house.
The Firs,elaborate 19^th stucco house.
Rose and Crown. The oldest building in the area. It is said one of the landlords wasDick Turpin’s grandfather and that they were a Huguenot family. The ghost ofthe highwayman is around in the area too. It has a timber frame and brick frontplus later extensions. The pub name symbolises the union of York and Lancasterin the marriage of Henry VI and Elizabeth of York. It is first noted in 1q716.

GloucesterRoad,
Laidout 1896

HawthornGrove
NorthEnfield Recreation Ground. This had been Tucker’s Field used as a playing fieldby a local football club since 1896. Thecouncil took it over in 1907. It was later funded from the King George's Fields Foundation

Hilly Fields Park.
EnfieldCouncil bought Park Farm in 1909 and opened the park in 1911
Bandstand.The Council built the bandstand in the early 1920s and it proved popular but beganeventually to fall out of fashion and the bandstand became derelict. Itsrestoration was undertaken by a group of local people and it is now the site ofmany events.

MorleyHill
Laidout by the Birkbeck Freehold Land Society Possibly named after John Morley (1838-1923), a leadingLiberal politician.
StLuke’s Youth Club

NewRiver
Anold course of the New River runs through this square. The river was originally built on the 100 ft.contour. In order to achieve this it made a three and half mile detour through Whitewebbs- its return out of the loop which this area covers was to skirt FortyHill. In 1820 the loop was shortenedunder William Chadwell Mylne and it was finally abandoned when Docwra built anaqueduct over Maidens Brook. The stretch of the old course can still be followed,although over the golf course it has partly been filled in.

PhippsHatch Lane
The name recalls a former gate to EnfieldChase.

TurkeyBrook
Thereis a boardwalk on the muddy bits in the woods.

Turkey Brook - Chase Farm

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Turkey Brook
TurkeyBrook flows south and east and is met by the Comreddy Gutter from the south

Post to the north Whitewebbs
Post to the west Ridgeway
Post to the east Enfield

Cedar Road
Theroad was laid out with the cemetery and originally called Cedar Road
Lavender Hill Cemetery. Lavender Hill Burial Board was set upin 1871 and the 9-acre opened in 1872. Sited at the top of Lavender Hill, Namedfor the lavender that was once grown in this area, it has some good views. The layout includes mature conifers, withearly monuments at the junctions of paths – its original planning and thelayout of serpentine walks and roads remains. It has been enlarged sinceopening. There is a lodge at the entrance with iron gates which were designed byT.J. Hill for the Burial Board and they are listed.Also listed is the Anglican cemetery chapel one of the two Identical‘mirror-image chapels also by Hill with a tower andsteeple. The non-conformist chapel has been used as a store and has an attachedurinal. There are graves fromincluding the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy, and the Royal Naval Air Service.Second World War grave in include a Canadian.

Clay Hill
Theroad name dates back at least to the mid-16^th. The road runs along anarrow ridge with the valleys of the two brooks on either side.
FallowBuck pub. 17th building. Weather boarded and partlyrendered.
Row of evergreen oaks opposite the pub
220-224 built in the 1960s onthe site of Hill Lodge. This was the home of Roland Macdonald Stephenson, an engineerspecialising in sewerage and water supplies

Cook’s Hole
ElmTree kennels

Hilly Fields Park
HillyFields Park – this square covers the western section only. The Parl was oncepart of Park Farm. In 1909 it was bought by the Enfield Council to stop development,
BronzeAge mound

Railway
Rendelsham railway viaduct. It carries the double trackGreat Northern Railway over the Turkey Brook on its Hertford line. It hasfourteen arches built 1907-10 of concrete with brick facing

Strayfield Road
Moorhatch Gate. This was a gate to Enfield Chaseand was the road led to it.
1St John the Baptist’s Church. Built 1860 by JamesPiers St. Aubin with, inside, stained glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Thechurch is in yellow brick with red and blue brick decoration. James WhatmanBosanquet partly financed the building but then fell out with the vicar overAnglo Catholic fittings and practices in the church – leading to scuffles, etc. There is a timber lynch gate and a modernparish room to the rear.
Memorial stone and drinkingtrough. The inscription says Donated to the Drinking Fountain Association in1992 in memory of Mr and Mrs Leslie Everett by their family.
Glenwood House. Built asthe parsonage for St. John’s church by St. Aubyn
NorthEnfield Cricket Club ground. The club dates from the 1880s and at first playedon farmland near Whitewebbs Park. They now play on a nearby council owned ground. Cricket has been played here consistently andthere have been links with major players.
QueenswoodFarm
StrayfieldRoad Cemetery

The Ridgeway
EnfieldDistrict Hospital - Chase Farm Hospital. ChaseFarm Schools were opened in 1886 by the Edmonton Board of Guardians for 500 orphanedworkhouse children replacing the old Edmonton Union Schools. This was a singlelarge building plus some cottage homes, designed by T.E. Knightley and was a ‘farm’school. In 1930 they transferred to Middlesex County Council. It was decided toadapt another isolated block to accommodate 37 bedridden infirm women fromEdmonton House and North Middlesex Hospital. This was opened by the then Ministerof Health. By 1938 it had had almost ceased to be a children's home and hadbecome a hospital for the elderly. On the outbreak of war in 1939 it became anemergency hospital and in 1948 it became part of the National Health Service asa general hospital. During the 1990's the 'Highlands Wing' a surgical block wasbuilt. The site also contains a number of newer specialist units.
TheKings Oak Hospital. Private hospital on part of the Chase Farm site

Theobalds Park Road
St.John’sMobile Home site

Turkey Brook - Ridgeway

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Turkey Brook
Turkey Brook flows southeastwards
Salman’s Brook flows southeastwards

Post to the north East Lodge
Post to the east Chase Farm

Hadley Road
Hadley Well cottage. There was once a well in this area
Pumping Station Enfield Waterworks. The Enfield Local Board of Health set up amunicipal waterworks in 1855. An additional pumping station was built at HadleyRoad in 1902 and passed to the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904. It was a tall building pumping a well next to Salmon's Brook. Ithad steam pumping engines, consisting of a vertical triple-expansion engine byAshton, Frost and Company of Blackburn and two Worthington compound engines.These were removed in 1948, and replaced by electric pumps. It pumped water toPlumridge Hill Water Tower. Disused and converted tohousing.
Parkside Farm, farmed by the same family since 1938, when it was a mixeddairy and arable farm. Although they still farm some wheat and oilseed rape thedairy cows in were sold in 2002 and the farm specialises in Pick-Your-Owncrops.
Vicarage Farm

Rectory Farm Road
Rectory Farm
The Red House

The Ridgeway
Ridgeway Country Club. This wasopposite the current site of the hotel before the Second World War.
Royal Chace Hotel
Cuckolds Hill
Holywell Lodge

Turkey Brook - East Lodge

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TurkeyBrook
Turkey Brook flows south eastwards

Post to the north Crews Hill
Post to the east Whitewebbs
Post to the south Ridgeway

CrewsHill Golf Club
Founded in 1916

EastLodge Lane
East Lodge. Lodge of Enfield Chase - nowEast Lodge Business Village – antique dealers. The Chase was divided up fromthe 17^th and the first estates were those leased out with the threelodges and East Lodge estate held 114 acres in 1845. They remained however with the Duchy of Lancaster. East Lodge, said tohave been a hunting seat of Charles I was rebuilt in 1668 by Charles, LordGerard, earl of Macclesfield. It was later leased by Alexander Wedderburn, LordChancellor and earl of Rosslyn and called Red Lodge. It was demolished before 1823.The modern building is on the site of another demolished building - The WhiteLodge.

KingsOak Plain

Cuffley Brook - Whitewebbs

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Cuffley Brook
TheCuffley Brook flows south and west

Post to the north Crews Hill
Post to the west East Lodge
Post to the south Chase Farm
Post to the east Whitewebbs Park

Theobald’s Park Road
Theroad is lined with nurseries and garden centres
St.John'sPrimary School. This is a Church of England School attached to the Church ofSt. John the Baptist, Clay Hill. It was opened in 1867 and was remodelled in 1969as a village school when there were two classrooms and 50 or so pupils. Further work has extended it since.
KingsOak Farm and Riding School. Now an equestrian centre.

Whitewebbs Road
Whitewebbs Pumping Station and Museum of Transport. In1895 the New River Company sank a well here. It had two inverted verticalcompound steam pumping engines by R Moreland & Son- (one of which wasreused in Bromley, Kent - and a chimney since demolished. It was built to feed a loop which used an oldchannel of the New River to the New River itself. It is in red brick. Buildingwith large arched windows and big pedimented porch built 1897-8 by JosephFrancis and Reginald E Middleton. In the basement is a well 123m deep linedwith cast iron segments, then bricks. This shaft goes down to the chalk andthere were had two side galleries one going to Theobald’s Road with nine boreholes,the other with six, However the station could not provide the amount of waterrequired and it was decommissioned in 1952. In 1961 the Enfield and District VeteranVehicle society was founded building up a collection of period motorcycles, cars,and commercial and public service vehicles. They set up a Trust, became acharity in 1979 and then purchased the pumping station in 1985. A vehicleshelter has been built of re-used cast-iron columns from Enfield Chase station.
Feederchannel – when the pumping station was opened an old channel of the New Riveron the north side of Cuffley Brook was opened to send water to the New River atTurkey Street – and a pipeline from the pumping station crosses the adjacentfield and feeds to it.

Cuffley Brook Crews Hill

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Cuffley Brook
Cuffley Brook flows southeastwards

Post to the east Woodgreen Farm
Post to the north Cuffley
Post to the west Nursery Plantation
Post to the south Glasgow Stud

Burnt Farm Ride
Burnt Farm. Farmhouse18^th withred brick front, Barn -Very large 17^th with atimber frame and weatherboarding on a paintedbrick base. Dairy 18^th in red brick
BurntFarm Cottage. Built 1840 in red brick
Nursery Plantation

Old Park Ride

Cattlins

Northaw Brook - Barvin Park

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Northaw Brook
Northaw Brook flows eastwards and isjoined by tributaries from the south west.
Hempshill Brook flows south east

Post to the west Potters Bar
Post to the south Barvin Park
Post to the east Cattlegate
Post to the north Northaw

Barvin Park

Housing on the site of St.Raphael’sSchool

Northaw Brook Little Heath

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NorthawBrook
NorthawBrook rises in this area, flows north, east, south and east

Post to the west Northaw

ChurchRoad
Coaltax post on the south side 50 yards west of Hatfield Road

GreatNorth Road
LittleHeath Farm
ChristChurch Little Heath. This replaced an earlier mission church. It is claimed tobe on the highest point between London and York – although that is usuallythought to be at Barnet. There are war memorial plaques inside the church.

HatfieldRoad
Coaltax post on the west side 50 yards south of Church Road

LeggattsPark
Asmall estate which was part of the Brookmans Park estate in the 19^thand then sold separately. It is now an upmarket gated area.
Sequoiaand cedar avenue

SchoolRoad
LittleHeath Primary School. This was originally a churchschool in the church Mission Centre opened in 1884 and paid for by the Shepherdbrothers of Leggatts Park

Hempshill Brook - Cuffley

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Hempshill Brook
Hempshill Brook flows southeastwards and is joined by a tributary from the west

Post to the south Cattlegate Wood
Post to the east Cuffley
Post to the west Northaw

Cuffley Hills Farm

Northaw Road
Wells Farm
Pumping Station. A pumping station here was built before 1920 when it wassteam powered although later it used diesel and then electricity. It has been demolished.
Waterworks Cottages, these werefor water works employees

Hempshill Brook Northaw

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Hempshill Brook
HempshillBrook flows and is joined by a tributary from the north
Anothertributary stream flows eastwards

Post to the north Ridgeway
Post to the west Northaw
Post to the east Cuffley
Post to the south Barvin Park

Hemps Hill

Northaw Road West
Kidston Institute. Founded by Mrs Janet Maitland Bruce Kidstonin memory of her husband in 1903. Aplaque says it was once used as a branch of the Hertfordshire County libraryservice.. It was meant as a 'social meeting place for men' and its endowment£1000 must revert to the Church if itfails. In the 1970s it nurtured table tennis players of national standard.
TheCottage

Vineyards Road
TheVineyard – this is the name of a wood on the Nyn Park estate. It is said thatgrapes were once grown here.
VineyardBridge – bridge over the Hempshill Brook
NorthawChurch of England Primary School. This was built in1851, as a National School.

Hempshill Brook - Northaw

2012-02-04T15:04:00.000-08:00

Hempshill Brook and Northaw Brook
HempshillBrook rises in this area and flows eastwards
NorthawBrook flows east and south

Post to the south Potters Bar
Post to the east Northaw
Post to the west Little Heath

Coopers Lane
DowerHouse. Built in 1749 using materials said to havecome from Canons, Edgware. This has also been known as Fairlawn House
Housewhich was the stables to Dower House. This is now aseparate house. It is 18^th in red brick with single storey sideextensions.
TheGrange.17^th or earlier timber framedhouse with 18^th and mid 20^th restyling. At one time used as a convent
TheForge – this cul de sac development is on land marked as a smithy on 19^thmaps.
NorthawPlace. Built in1690 for Captain Moncey R.N withlater alterations. 17^th stable block with a clock tower and clockfaces. Inside are wall and ceiling paintings and also some in Chinese style.Garden walls from the 17^th in red brick. In the centre are doublecast iron gates between 19th gate piers. In the late 19^th this wasNorthaw Preparatory School, run by two clergymen ‘only interested in cricketand the bible’ – a pupil there was Clement Attlee. Now let as flats.
Springfield.This is a house built in 1820 and later altered. In the 1950s it was the homeof Charles Gordon Maynard, Chairman of Hatfield Rural District Council whomay/may not be the same man as the inventor of the wine gum.
OldOwen’s Recreation Ground. This is the sports ground for the old boys club ofwhat was Dame Alice Owens School in Islington. They moved to this site fromWhetstone in 1988.
Northaw House. Built in 1698 and now used as offices for the ArchitectsCo-partnership. It is painted plaster on red brick. There are service blocksand a 19^th stable block.
Spinney Cottage. This was once a bakery and has a 17th baker’soven at one end. The house itself is in chequered red brick

Judges Hill
1 The Sun Public House. 17^th timber framed inn
StudFarm
WarMemorial, erected after the Great War with Second World War names added

Northaw Road West
St. Thomas the Martyr. Church of England. It was built in1881-2 and replaced an earlier church which had been burnt down and which hadbeen built in 1809. It was built by Church. 1881, by C Kirk and Son of Sleaford.
TwoBrewers Public House with a 16th timber frame pluslater extensions.
2, 4, 6, 8, Ivy Cottages which are 19^th in red brick.
9 – 9a. The Old Bakery. House which was once a bakery. This is a17th timber frame house with later alterations.
10 -12 Muscombes Cottage. Cottage In painted brick. Made up fromtwo properties. 19^th but may be earlier.

Nyn Pond
Thearea around the pond used to be Lake Field. The lake was the water feature andboating lake for long derelict Nyn Manor.

Vineyards Road
Old Vicarage. Built 1752 with later additions

Cuffley Brook - Cuffley

2012-02-03T09:05:00.000-08:00

Cuffley Brook
Cuffley Brook continues to flow southwards

Post to the south Cattlegate
Post to the north Cuffley
Post to the east Cuffley
Post to the west Cuffley

Church Close
St.Martin de Porres, Roman Catholic Church. Small redchurch hidden away and built in 1962.

NorthawRoad East
King GeorgeV Playing Fields,

PloughHill
Cuffley Free Church. Baptist church built 1965-7. This isnow called Life Church,
St.Andrew's Church. Church of England. The church physically dominates thevillage by being on a rising site at a road junction. Designed by Clifford Culpin,it has a steep roof and concrete supports. It replaces a ‘tin church’ built in 1910. In 1964 local people raised over £63,000 tobuild the current Church. It includes an undercroft used as a function hall.
ThePlough

Station Road
Cuffley Station. It lies between Bayford and CrewsHill Stations. It opened in 1910 on the Great Northern Railway’s Hertford LoopLine between Enfield Chase and Hertford North and was initially called Cuffley and Goff's Oak. It was the northern limit of passenger services1910-1924. The initial station buildings were extremely modest but the currentbrick built booking hall was provided in the early 1980s.
Signal Box. This was in useuntil 1972.
Goods Yard closed 1962 and isnow covered by the car park
Cuffley and Northaw Youth Centre

Theobald’s Road
CuffleySchool.

Cuffley Brook - Goffs Oak

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Cuffley Brook
Cuffley Brook flows southwardstowards the River Lee

Post to the east Goff's Oak
Post to the north Goffs Oak
Post to the west Cuffley
Post to the south Crews Hill

Cuffley Hill
Brook Farm

Jones Road
This was once called St.Jones’Road from a local field name
Woodside Primary School

Cuffley Brook - Goffs Oak

2012-02-03T00:43:00.000-08:00

Cuffley Brook
Cuffley Brook flows southwards

Post to the east Lucas End
Post to the west Cuffley
Post to the south Goff's Oak

Laburnham Way
Goffs Oak Primary School

Newgatestreet Road
Used to be called ‘The CommonRoad”
Burleigh

The Crest
A windmill stood to the east ofthe road. This was a tower mill built in1860 to replace a predecessor which had burnt down. It stopped work in 1890 andwas pulled down after 1918 the bricks being removed gradually after.

Cuffley Brook - Cuffley

2012-02-03T00:11:00.001-08:00

Cuffley Brook
Cuffley Brook flows southwardstowards the River Lee

Post to the north Newgatestreet
Post to the east Goff's Oak
Post to the south Cuffley

East Ridgeway
Memorial. This is to Leefe Robinson who shot down the firstZeppelin of the Great War in September 1916. The wreckage fell into fields nearbyand the crew perished. Thus was the end of extensive Zeppelin attacks onBritain. The site had to be guarded by police from souvenir hunters and the daybecame known as `Zeppelin Sunday'. Robinson was awarded the VC, the first foran airman but died of flu aged 23. The memorial was erected in 1921 followingan appeal in the Daily Express but was rededicated in 1986.

HillsLey
3 A subsidence was recorded at in 1979.The property was built in 1973/74 in the gardens of an older property. In 1974 a 2m. deep depression appeared andwas filled with spoil. It reappeared in 1978 and was 2.5m. deep and was also filled in.

Cuffley Brook - Newgatestreet

2012-02-02T23:24:00.000-08:00

Cuffley Brook
TheCuffley Brook flows eastwards and is joined by another branch from the northand then flows south.

Post to the south Cuffley
Post to the north Ponsbourne Park
Post to the west Carbone Hill

Carbone Hill
TolmersPark. Tolmers Manor belonged to the Bishop of Ely in the earlymiddle ages of whom Walter de Tolymer was a tenant. After the dissolution itwas held by the Earl of Leicester and then the Crown. In the mid17^ththe Tudor manor house was replaced by the current Italianate building. In theGreat War it became a military hospital and then The Royal VictoriaPatriotic, girls’ boarding school. It became ahospital again in the Second World War, and continued as a geriatric unit untilthe 1980s. It is now flats.

Darnicle Street
Coalpost. Coal tax post at the point at which the road name changes to Newgate Street,and by the stream. This coal post issaid also to have been under the railway bridge but which has now gone.
ThamesWater booster pumping station
PumpingStation – now converted to housing. It is a 19^th pump house above awell in the chalk built by the Metropolitan Water Board.
NewgateStreet Bridge over Cuffley Brook with concrete road block from the Second WorldWar

Newgate Street
RecreationGround
Coalpost. This is supposed to be south of Newgate Street and north of Carbone Hillbut seems to have gone.
RailwayBridge. Underneath are a line of concrete anti tank road blocks from the SecondWorld War.

Cuffley Brook - Carbone Hill

2012-02-02T08:30:00.000-08:00

Cuffley Brook
Cuffley Brook flows eastwards andis joined by Grimes Brook from the south west

Post to the west Great Wood
Post to the east Newgatestreet

Carbone Hill
Postern Bridge. Concrete blockfor setting up a road block on the north west corner.
Pillbox in the woods overlookingthe bridge, and some other associated Second World War defence concrete aroundthe bridge and under it.

Great Wood
Grimes Bottom. Muddy
Cuffley Camp. Outdoor Centre.Some of the older hornbeams of the Great Wood can be seen here. This centreoriginally was attached to local schools.

Millbrook Golf Course

Grimes Brook - Nyn Manor

2012-02-02T07:14:00.000-08:00

Grimes Brook
Grimes Brook rises in this areaand flows north east

Post to the north Great Wood
Post to the south Northaw

Handpost Hill
Nyn Manor Farm. This was the homefarm for Nyn Manor with a 19^th farmhouse. Stablewhich has 17th brick walls and on the side four 19^th ventilators inwooden frames. Barn and wall built in 17^th Timber framed and weatherboarded on a brick base
Pillbox from theOuter London Defence Line in a field to the west of the road

Outer London Defence Line trench
This ran from the Ridgeway viaNyn Manor Farm and then back to the junction with Carbonne Road. Most remains have now disappeared.

Ridgeway
This was built as a toll road in1811
Pillbox to the rear of one of the properties and looking down towards Nyn Manor Farm

Vineyards Road
Land west of theroad as far as Nyn Manor was planted as woodland by Major F. Russell Dore onfarmland. This is covenanted to preventfuture development

Cuffley Brook - Great Wood

2012-02-01T05:43:00.000-08:00

Cuffley Brook

CuffleyBrook flows eastwards and is joined by Rowbourne Brook from the south east.Grimes Brook also flows eastwards.

Post to the west Great Wood
Post to the south Nyn Manor
Post to the east Carbone Hill

Great Wood
Thewood was a forest before the Norman Conquest and then became common land aswood pasture, rather than thick woodland. It was enclosed in the early 19^thand was used as a source of commercial timber production – planted with oak andpine, which was then felled. It was soldto the local authority in the late 1930s, used by the military in the SecondWorld War and then opened to the public, under local authority management as acountry park. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a local naturereserve.
ColdharbourPlantation
JusticeHill. A line of pollarded hornbeams planted in the early 19th marks a boundary withinthe wood

Cuffley Brook - Great Wood

2012-02-01T05:27:00.001-08:00

Cuffley Brook and Rowbourne Brook
Cuffley Brook flows eastwards andRowbourne Brook rises in the area together with another tributary and they alsoflow east.

Post to the west Brookmans Park
Post to the east Great Wood

Great Wood

The wood was a forest before theNorman Conquest and then became common land as wood pasture, rather than thickwoodland. It was enclosed in the early 19^th and was used as a sourceof commercial timber production – planted with oak and pine, which was thenfelled. It was sold to the local authorityin the late 1930s, used by the military in the Second World War and then openedto the public, under local authority management. It is a Site of SpecialScientific Interest and a local nature reserve

Broombarns Wood. This is an olderwood.
Rowbourne Hill

Cuffley Brook - Brookmans Park

2012-02-01T02:35:00.000-08:00

Cuffley Brook
Cuffley Brook rises in this area from several sources and flows eastwards

Post to the east Great Wood

Great North Road
BrookmansPark Transmitting Station. This square covers the southern section only. The station serves Londonand some of the South East of England with AM radio and is sited on one of the highest hills in Hertfordshire. It was opened in 1929 bythe BBC as the station in the world to transmit two separate radio channelssimultaneously. It is now owned by Arqiva and transmits commercial radio. Telecomscompanies can rent space there for satellite and mobile phone transmission. Inthe south east there is a T aerial which transmits the Virgin andSunrise services.
Reservoirand water tower constructed by British Reinforced Concrete in 1914

Kentish Lane
George’sWood

Cuffley Brook - Ponsbourne Park

2012-02-01T00:14:00.000-08:00

CuffleyBrook
CuffleyBrook rises in this area and flows southwards towards the River Lee

Post to the east Wormley Woods
Post to the south Newgatestreet

NewgateStreet
St.Mary’sPrimary School. This is a Church of England Voluntary Controlled School,founded in 1847. The originalbuildings remain plus a new classroom. The schoolhouse is used for offices andlibrary.
TheCrown
Catsford Cottage. 17^th house in brick
St.MarysChurch. Stone church built in 1848 and originally called StMary's Tolmers and then St Mary's Hatfield. Steeple added 1858. Inside is anelaborate carved pulpit
TheCoach and Horses. 18^th pub building.
PonsbourneManor house. Built 1887 and now flats. Ponsbourne was part of the manor of Hatfield and it is the name of a local medieval family.
Ponsbourne Riding Centre

NewPark Road
NewgateStreet Village Hall. Built in the 1960s on land bought for the purpose in 1935

PonsbournePark
TheWarren – area of woodland
Old Ponsbourne House. demolished in 1761 and originally built inthe 15^th.. /The foundations are said to lie below the presenthouse on what was a football field. In 1539 the owner, Sir Adrian Fortescue,was beheaded on Tower Hill for refusing to recognise Henry VIII as Head of theChurch. This is why the Catholics took it over as a school and called himBlessed Adrian Fortescue,
Ponsbourne House, big pale brick mansion built in 1761. After the Second World War it became St Dominic’s Priory School.It later became Tesco’s Management Training Centre. And now is a hotel run bythe de Vere Group. Ferneryin the basement was built by Pulham in 1858 used as a chapel when the house wasa school. The fernery was re-erected at CapelManor in Enfield. The pools and stream associated with it remain in the groundsof the hotel. The Doric Temple on the side of the house is said to have been built as a dairy
Walled Garden. This also uses some Pulhamstone and includes gate posts
Graveyard. Used by the nuns
GolfCourse
Lake –was formed by damming the stream which eventually becomes Cuffley Brook
The Lodge–keepers cottage deep in the woods

Black Ditch Dowding Way

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Black Ditch
The Black Ditch flows westwards towardsthe River Lee

Post to the north Waltham Abbey
Post to the south Avey Lane
Post to the west Waltham Abbey

Dowding Way.
Link road built in the 1990s

M25

Round Hills Wood

Black Ditch - Avey Lane

2012-01-30T14:22:00.001-08:00

Black Ditch

Black Ditch flows westwardstowards the River Lee

Post to the east High Beech
Post to the north Dowding Way

Avey Lane
Many nurseries and greenhouses
Avey Lane Farm. 19^thyellow brick farmhouse

Black Ditch - High Beech

2012-01-30T13:46:00.000-08:00

Black Ditch
The Black Ditch rises inthis area and flows eastwards towards the River Lee

Post to the west Avey Lane

Avey Lane
High Beech Village Hall

Manor Road
Arabin House. 16^thhouse remodelled 1800. Said to be where Tennyson livedwith Judge Arabin. Coach house, stables and entrance gates

Pynest Green
Hanbury Riding School
Pynest House
High Beech Riding School. The owners began by offeringrides on their own horses and then started the school at what was thenPacksaddle Farm. The indoor school was built in 1972. The school now has 32horses.
Gates to Beech Hill Park.
The Rookery. Tennysonlived on a house on this site, part of Beech Hill Park, from 1837 to be nearhis brother who was in care nearby.
Gardens of Hanbury. Donald Miller bought the site in 1970 as a 19^thwalled vegetable garden. It is now a leisure park for retired people. 18^thmaterials have been used for buildings and there are games areas, as well as apicnic area.

Rat’s Lane
Bantham Bowls Club

Wellington Hill
High Beech GolfCourse
Duke of Wellington. The pubdates to at least the mid-19th
Christian CommunityHoliday Home founded 1926. This became the Epping Forest Youth Hostel between 1964 and 2008. It operated with a rota of volunteer wardenswho opened it up at weekends. Partly on the site of Riggs Retreat

Cobbins Brook - Waltham Abbey

2012-01-29T23:46:00.000-08:00

Cobbins Brook
The Brook flows west towards the River Lee
The Black Ditch flows westwards towards the River Lee

Post to the west Ramney Marsh
Post to the north Waltham Abbey
Post to the east Dowding Way

Black Ditch
The ditch has been ‘re-profiled’ within the new park and is now the boundary between new housing of Meridian Park and the new Gunpowder Park. It previously ran within the Government Research Establishment.

Black Ditch Road.
This road, previously within the factory area has now gone except as a partial pathway within the park.

Dowding Way
New road built from the 1990s.

Meridian Line
Meridian Park. New housing built on part of the Royal Gunpowder Factory site.
Meridian Way
New road built from the 1990s
Sainsbury’s Distribution Depot

Sewardstone Way.
This road, previously within the factory area has now gone except as a partial pathway within the park

Sewardstone Road
The Royal Gunpowder Factory developed this area, in the late 1880s, on fields of Quinton Hill farm, for the manufacture of guncotton and later nitroglycerin and cordite. Initially laid out in the area between Cobbins Brook and Black Ditch It was intended to bring the whole manufacturing process into a site with rationally laid out buildings. The eastern part of the site contained the nitroglycerine and cordite factories. The site finally closed, as the Government Research Establishment, in 1991.
Gunpowder Park. The Park has shrubs and trees planted in blocks, to make a landscape which mirrors the area’s previous use. Bands of trees are laid out to as if appear as ‘shock waves’ fanning out like an explosion. An area which contained rows of blast testing bunkers is planted with willow in rectangular blocks. Gabion wall of recycled materials. The Meridian Line runs north-south through the park.

Cobbins Brook - Waltham Abbey

2012-01-29T14:45:00.000-08:00

Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook flows west and south and is joined by a tributary from thesouth east

Post to the east Ninefields Estate
Post to the north Paternoster Hill
Post to the west Waltham Abbey
Post to the south Dowding Way

Brookside
Built on the site of Broomstick Hall Farm

Broomstick Hall Road
Stouts Bridge which went over Cobbins Brook
2-4 19^th weather boarded houses.
King Harold Business and Enterprise Academy, King Harold School was foundedin 1952 through the merger of two boys board schools
Waltham Abbey Sports Centre

Hillhouse
Hillhouse CofE Primary School
Hillhouse Youth Football Club Ground

Honey Lane
Leverton Infant School. ThomasLeverton was a developer who died in 1824 and his tomb is in Waltham Abbeygraveyard. His wife set up a school in Highbridge Street, for 20 poor boys and20 poor girls. In 1899 the building wassold and the school was re-housed in an old National School. In 1906 the schoolmoved to Paradise Row and then closed in 1942. The current school was built asan open plan school in 1971 and the Nursery School in 1998
Leverton Junior School. Thomas Leverton left money for education in thearea in 1824. This school building opened in 1971.

Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Ninefield Estate

2012-01-29T13:23:00.000-08:00

Tributary to Cobbins Brook
A number of tributary streamsrise in this area and flow north west to Cobbins Brook

Post to the north Pick Hill
Post to the west Waltham Abbey

Honey Lane Hospital. This was an isolation hospital builtin 1905 for Buckhurst Hill, Chingford and Waltham Cross. It has three wards andincluded a farm and its own sewage disposal plant. By 1934 it included Chigwell,Wanstead as well as Loughton, and Epping and had expanded to 130 beds. Newbuildings included a nursing home, a laundry and a water tower. Under the NHSit became part of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and wasthe second largest hospital in the Group. As the threat of diphtheriadiminished so some beds were used for TB patients. In 1952 it was renamed HoneyLane Hospital and began to admit general medical cases but by 1980 wards wereused for geriatric patients and by 1982 the Hospital had 73 beds for long staypatients and GP cases. The Hospital closed in 1986. The site was sold. The buildings demolished for new houses whichnow cover most of the area between its site and Ninefields.

Ninefields Road

Ninefields Estate; local authorityhousing built in the early 1970s.

Upshire Road
Upshire Primary Foundation School.The school dates from 1939 but has been greatly extended since. The schooloriginated with a school opened in 1853 and maintained by Sir Thomas F. Buxtonat Warlies. In 1877 it was transferred to the Waltham school board. In 1939 itwas moved to its present site and became a juniors and infants school in 1951.

Southend Lane
Upshire Hall. 18^th red brick building. This was once called SouthEnd and was a farm house
Southend Farm. 17^th Farmhouse inred brick. Fishing lakes nearby.

Woodgreen Lane
Warlies Park Farm. Farmhouse withbarn and dairy converted to housing.
Ninefield House

Cobbins Brook - Paternoster Hill

2012-01-28T09:07:00.001-08:00

Cobbins Brook

Cobbins Brook flows south westtowards the River Lee

Post to the west Waltham Abbey
Post to the east Pick Hill
Post to the south Waltham Abbey

Galleyhill Road
Abbey View Nursery

Paternoster Hill
Queens Head. Dates to at leastthe 1880s

Cobbins Brook - Pick Hill

2012-01-28T08:39:00.000-08:00

Cobbins Brook

Cobbins Brook flows south west towards the River Leeand is joined by a tributary from the north

Post to the north Breach Barns
Post to the west Paternoster Hill
Post to the south Ninefields Estate

PickHill

Pickhillfarm
BarnCourt - conversion of unbelievable proportions

Road
Leads to a selection of nurseries and vegetable farms.Some derelict, some not, some now scrap yards, some burnt down

WarliesPark
CobbinPond. Also called Buxton’s Pond – it dates from theearly 20^th when the Buxton family owned the house. Features bullrushes.
Wood south of the pond with oak and hornbeam
Wood west of the pond in a wet area with willow, blackthornand elder
WestHill

Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Breach Barns

2012-01-28T01:40:00.000-08:00

Tributary to Cobbins Brook
Thetributary flows south towards Cobbins Brook

Post to the west Cobbinsend
Post to the south Pick Hill

Breach Barns Lane
BreachBarns Farm
BreachBarns Caravan and Mobile Homes Park
FourwaysNursery
OakwoodNursery
BrookmeadowFarm
Pathto site of Monkhams Rifle Range
SewageWorks, disused
Maple Springs
Obelisk. Theobelisk is supposed to represent the place where Boadicea fell. It is 18^thand alongside the stream at the back of Fourways Nursery. It is one of two –the other is to the east of here.

Cobbins Brook - Cobbinsend

2012-01-28T00:19:00.000-08:00

Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook continues to flowsouth west towards the River Lee

Post to the east Spratts Hedgerow Wood
Post to the west Breach Barns

Brookmeadow Wood. Hornbeam and hazel coppice woodland plus oak, ash and sycamore. Thisarea is part of a flood water retention scheme.
Cobbins Brook. Flood preventionwork on Cobbins Brook. An embankment has been built plus a culvert to let waterpass through the embankment. There are also Control gates to limit the rate atwhich water leaves the flood storage area. There is also a screen to collectlarge items of debris. An existing weir has been left in place.

Cobbinsend Lane
Cobbinsend Farm with 19^thweather boarded farmhouse
Maynards Farm, 19th yellowbrick farmhouse and weather boarded outbuildings

Fernhall Lane
Fernhall Farm. Red brick farmhouse19^th but there was an earlier building here. Barn 18^th Tarred weatherboarding and Timber
frame

Scatterbushes Wood. Ancient woodland with hornbeam coppice with a oaks and ashes

Stocking Grove. The wood is made up of hornbeam coppice with some oak. There is a streamto the north part of the wood

Cobbins Brook - Spratt's Hedgerow

2012-01-27T23:02:00.000-08:00

Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook flows west towardsthe River Lee

Post to the east Copped Hall Estate
Post to the north Parvill
Post to the west Cobbinsend

Rookery Wood. Woodlandwith oak and hornbeam. There are also planted hybrid poplars. There is a crescent-shapedlake on the eastern side which was part of the landscaping of Copped Hall and calledthe Lagoon and Fish Canal. It is now an area of sedge, alder and willow

Spratts Hedgerow Wood. This is an ancient woodland with several important oaks aswell as hornbeam and hazel coppice. There are bridle paths throughout.
Pillbox – a brick and concrete pillboxpart of the defence of the Outer London Stop Line ring. It is on the north eastcorner of sprat’s hedgerow wood.
Outer London Defence Ring anti-tankditch can be seen for a short distance as a small gully running from thepillbox near Cobbins Brook

Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Parvill

2012-01-27T22:34:00.000-08:00

Tributary to Cobbins Brook
The tributary flows south towardsCobbins Brook

Post to the east Orange Wood
Post to the south Spratt's Hedgerow Wood

Road
The road to Parvill from AllSaints church links the medieval manors of the area and is thus likely to be ancient
Outer London Defence Stop Line Ditch– this crossed the field from Parvills Farm gate and then continued alongthe field boundary to the corner of Gills Plantation
Balhill Wood. This isancient woodland containing Oak and Hornbeamcoppice. There is also some planted Scots Pine and Larch.
Pillbox An octagonal brick and concrete pillbox standsnear the north east edge of the wood. This was part of the structure of the OuterLondon Ring anti-tank ditch
Parvill. Farmhouse.This is 16^th including part of an earlier building. It is Timberframed and plastered and with many ancient features still in place. There is apuddingstone boulder near the gate. A Second World War pillbox stood by thegate as part of the defence of the Outer London Stop Line. Some small pieces ofconcrete remain,
Barn and granaryfrom the 16^th also Timber framed and weather boarded which is nowconverted to housing.
Gills Plantation. A plantationcontaining oak, ash and hazel. There is a bridle path lined with pines. Pillbox. An octagonalstructure of brick and concrete on the north east corner as part of the OuterLondon Defence Ring and Ditch. It is adjacent to a water filled gully.

Cobbins Brook - Orange Wood

2012-01-27T21:19:00.000-08:00

Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook flows south westtowards the River Lee and is joined by a tributary from the south and anotherfrom the north.

Post to the north Epping Upland
Post to the east Bury Farm
Post to the south Copped Hall Estate
Post to the west Parvill

Gills Farm.
Gills was a manor of Epping andtook its name from that of a family which were Waltham Abbey’s tenants there,and it later became part of the Copped Hall Estate. The farmhouse is a 16^thbuilding, timber-framed, plastered, and weather-boarded. Like every other manorin the area - there is also a moat.

Orange Field Plantation
Oak ina plantation with scots pine and poplar. There is also some coppiced hazel and someother self generating woodland. There are paths and bridle paths and a pond.

Orange Peel
A strip of oak woodland

Orange Wood
Oak woodland with some othertrees and in a wood criss-crossed with bridle paths.

Tributary to Cobbins Book - Copped Hall Estate

2012-01-27T14:38:00.000-08:00

Tributary to Cobbins Brook
The tributary flows northwardstowards Cobbins Brook

Post to the south Copped Hall Estate
Post to the north Orange Wood
Post to the west Spratt's Hedgerow Wood

Fitches Plantation
Rectangleof woodland with a strip projecting from the north east corner and a pond inthe same area. There is oak with hawthorn,elm, elder and sycamore.
Pillboxat the tip of the projection. Octagonal and built of brick and concrete
Outer London Defence Ring – ran north-southdown the eastern edge of Fitches Plantation

Little Rookery Wood
Oak woodlandplus an area of hornbeam near the centre. There are paths and bridleways throughthe wood

Pondfield Plantation
Ash andhazel woodland

Spratts Hedgerow
Anarrow stretch of wood with poplar and scots pine recently planted
Pillbox of brick and concrete,octagonal pillbox hidden in woodland on the north east corner of the wood

Tributary Stream
In parts this stream acted aspart of the anti-tank ditch built as part of the Outer London Stop Line.

Cobbins Brook - Copped Hall Estate

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Tributaryto the Cobbins Brook
TheTributary flows north towards Cobbins Brook

Post to the south Ambresbury Banks
Post to the north Copped Hall Estate

Road between Copped Hall and Epping Road
Concrete pillbox stands in woodland on the south side. This is part of the Outer London Defence ring guarding the anti tank ditch

CoppedHall
CoppedHall Home Farm. The farmhouse is a red brick19th building. Dairy red brick 19th model farm building
Lake. This is a manmade feature east of the mansion, has an island, a summerhouseand a collapsed boathouse. There is some carp fishing. Pillbox on south west corner of the lake. This is part of the Outer London Defence ring guarding the anti tank ditch.
The White House. 19^thEstate house in a 16^th vernacular style.

Cobbins Brook - Bury Farm

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Cobbins Brook

Cobbins Brook flows south westtowards the River Lee and is joined by a tributary from the south east.

Post to the north Epping Upland
Post to the east Epping
Post to the west Orange Wood

Bury Lane
Bury Farm. This was a possessionof Waltham Abbey from the 11th until the dissolution.The farmhouse is 16th a timber framed and plastered building. The farmcomprises 18th ranges and a listed 17th barn. Outside the yard is a 19th cart lodge.All of these are timber framed. There is also a modern pre-fabricated cow shedand circular horse management area. There is one arm of a moat and filledponds.

Epping Road
Cobbins Bridge

Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Epping

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Tributaryto Cobbins Brook
The tributary rises in this area and flows North West towards the brook

Post to the north Epping

Bakers Lane
Archimedean Ironworks established by William Cottis in 1858, which mademetal products. Demolished in the 20th century

BoltCellar Lane
A bridle way bordered with a large hedgerow

Bury Lane
Epping Burial Ground opened 1911. There are 3 graves of casualties from theGreat War and 20, from the Second World War

Coronation Hill
Epping Primary School

HighStreet
88 & 90. 18^TH houses with modern shops on the ground floor.
98 - 102 The Cottage. 17^th plastered houses
St. John the Baptist. Built in 1889 on the site of a chapel of ease to AllSaints at Epping Upland. It began in the14th as a chapel belonging to Waltham Abbey and after the dissolution a vicarwas appointed under the Bishop of London. This was confirmed by the crown butit was given to John Cocks of Broxbourne but retaining the rights of peoplefrom Epping for use for divine services. It was later sold on, including ahouse called Chapel Hall, but the same provision applied to the chapel. It was laterregarded as a chapel-of-ease to All Saints, and served by their vicar until 1764and then trustees employed a chaplain with the vicar as a trustee. In 1824 itreceived grants from Queen Anne's Bounty, and in it became the parish church in1888. The chapel had been enlarged in 1622, and further work done in successiveyears and then various rebuilding schemes considered. It was rebuilt in in 1832the chapel was rebuilt to the designs of S. M. Hubert and money in legaciesallowed more work to be done. In 1889, it was demolished and replaced by a building,designed by Bodley and Garner, and there have been additions to this since.
Markets were held here from the early middle ages, and there were twosuccessive market houses here, both now gone. The first was alongside thechapel which was the predecessor to St.John’s church.
123 Council depot & National House offices
117a Hawthorn Lodge. This was used as Council offices until 1972.
Fire station
Epping Methodist Church. Built 1887 when the congregation moved here fromHemnal Street.
Barclays – this was previously the Duke of York, pub
Drinking trough and monument. This was originally erected in 1887 and moneyraised by public subscription. In 1961 it was removed by the Council duringredevelopment and used as landfill at the rear of the Baptist Church. Then inthe 1970s and 1980s people tried to find it and specialist equipment failed tofind it but eventually excavators retrieved it by chance and in 1989 it wasreplaced.
Empire Cinema was opposite the Church. and it closed in 1954. Originallybuilt as a town hall it opened in 1912 having been a skating rink and by theearly 1920’s was operated by Shipman & King. It was reopened 1924, andre-named Picture Palace, but was partly burnt down in 1935, and was re-built asthe Empire. It became a Tesco supermarket and is now a photographic studio

LowerSwaines
Lower Swaines recreation ground
Swaines Green Nature Reserve is a green corridor between two sections of Epping Forest. Itis made up of four fields. Forties Field which is now scrub typicallythickets of oak, ash, hawthorn and blackthorn and some grassland. LowerLincoln’s Field with grassland. Middle Lincoln's Field grassland with a watersource and water plants. Lovelocks Meadow with few trees and somescrub

St.JohnsRoad
This was originally a small road, called Chapel Lane, giving access to theNational School
5, 7, 9, 11, 11a, 15 18^th houses with white weather boardedfronts
Epping Hall. New building on the site of a previous hall inherited from theWomen’s Institute
Epping Primary School. In 19th national school building previously usedbyEssex County Council as an Adult Education Centre
Epping Library

Tower Road
St. John’s Church of England School. Specialist engineering college.

Cobbins Brook - Epping Upland

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Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook flows from twosources south west towards the Lee. It is joined by a tributary from the southeast and another from the north west.

Post to the north Marles Farm
Post to the west Epping Upland

Upland Road
Hayleys Manor Farm. 19th redbrick farmhouse which is on the site of the original medieval Hayleys manor. This was one of the original manor of Eppingand took its name from a 14^th family. In 1840 the manor was owned bythe parish of St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate but was later merged in theCopped Hall estate. Part of the moat survives near the stream to the west ofthe house.
Pinch Timber Farm. Farmhouse 16^th Timber framed and weatherboarded .18^th Barn, timber framedand weather boarded

Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Epping Upland

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Tributary to Cobbins Brook

The tributary flows north east towards Cobbins Brook

Post to the north Shingle Hall
Post to the west Epping Upland
Post to the east Epping Upland
Post to the south Bury Farm

Epping Road
All Saints Church. This was the original church for Epping, of which thechurch in the town was a chapel of ease.It is built of flint rubble covered in pebble- dash. The nave appears to be13th and there have been many additions since. It was originally a possessionof Waltham Abbey passing to the Crown at the dissolution. There is a 16th redbrick tower. There are six bells and a bell chamber in the tower with noticesabout notable ringing sessions. Also on the tower is a clock – which is fixed ona place where it can be seen by latecomers from Epping. There are manymonuments including a brass to Palmer,Professor of Common Law at Cambridge. John Overall was vicar here in 1592; he is one of the people who helpedtranslate the Authorised Version.
Churchyard. There is a mounting block outside thechurch. There is a Giant Redwood, Wellingtonia alongside the church
ElmCottage. 18th house in red brick originally used as the church house. In the early 19th it became the Chequers pub. Now housing.

Upland Road
Takeleys. This was a manor once called Claygarth, takingits name from 15th tenants. It is a 17^th timber frame house, withinside a carved fireplace and 17th floral wall painting. The surrounding moatis almost complete.
Takeleys Farm Cottages
Eppingbury Farm. Owned by Waltham Abbey this was the originalmanor for the area. The manor house lay to the south of here at Bury Road.

Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Epping

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Tributary to Cobbins Brook
The Tributary flows north westtowards Cobbins Brook
Another tributary flows northwest towards Cobbins Brook

Post to the east Wintry Park
Post to the south Epping
Post to the west Bury Farm

Lindsey Street
Shaftesbury Farm

Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Wintry Park

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Tributary to Cobbins Brook

The tributary flows north west toCobbins Brook

Post to the west Epping

Frampton Road
Lindsey Street Community Centre, TheAssociation and hall was founded and built by local residents in the early1950`s for local families. Its original small wooden building has been greatlyextended with the addition of a large hall

High Road
The turnpike road started fromthe junction with Thornwood Road
Brickfield House and BusinessCentre. Site of previous brickfield.

Lindsey Street
30 site of Epping Brewery.the stables, hay loft and dray house remain in the garden of the house which was built over the old engine house, copper and steam plant as an off-licence in 1950. The bottling store remains in light industrial use

Thornwood Road
This was previously called ThePlain.
Epping Plain. Together withWintry Wood this makes up the Great Forest – a detached part of Epping Forest
Wintry Park Farm. Late 18^th farmhouse. Wintry means 'winter enclosure' and is notedin 1200
Wintry Park House. The name isfirst noted in 1403 and this was a farm in the 18th
Almshouses. Built as part of abequest from Stonards. Built in 1877; as three double-fronted cottages, in redbrick
Wintry Wood. The wood is part of the Great Forest and the name ofWintry Wood has been transferred here from the opposite side of the turnpike road
Wintry Wood Cottage & Kennels
Hole in the Wall Garage –site beingredeveloped

Cobbins Brook - Marles Farm

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Cobbins Brook

Cobbins Brook flows east towardsthe Lee
A tributary of Cobbins Brookflows south

Post to the west Shingle Hall
Post to the south Epping Upland

Marles Farm
The manor of Marles was probably partof the Domesday manor of Epping taking its name from a family called Madle or Mascle.Manor courts were still being held in the early 19^th. The farmhouseis a 17^th timber-framed building and there are the remains of amoat.
Marles Farm Cottage

Cobbins Brook - Shingle Hall

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CobbinsBrook

Cobbins Brook flows eastwards to the River Lee

Post to the east Marles Farm
Post to the south Epping Upland

Site of Shingle Hall. The Hall was part of theWaltham Abbey estate. The manor extended into Great Parndon and the name camefrom the roof of shingles on the medieval house. It is first mentioned in1253. In 1303 it had a windmill. Itsubsequently became part of the Copped Hall estate until the 16^th.At the dissolution of Waltham Abbey it passed to the Crown and was granted toLord Morley. Manor courts were still held here in the 19th century. The manorhouse was demolished in 1899 and cottages built on site although the moatremains.

Cobbins Brook - Epping Upland

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Cobbins Brook

Cobbins Brook rises from a numberof sources in this area and flows north east towards the River Lee.

Post to the east Epping Upland
Post to the south Orange Wood

Epping Road
All Saints Vicarage
Sports Field

Road
Hunters Hall Cottages
Chambers Manor Farm – now housingas Chambers Manor Mews
Chambers Manor. The manor of Chamberswas probably connected to Waltham Abbey. The name comes from the family whichheld it in the 14th and 15^thbut merged into the Copped Hall estatein the 18^th. The manor houseis probably 17th and is timber-framed building, re-faced in brick. Part of amoat survives.

Track
Hunters Hall Farm. Probably 16^thin origin

Cornmill Stream - Waltham Abbey

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CornmillStream
TheCornmill Stream flows south and west to join the River Lee
Cobbinsbrook flows south and west through the area towards the River Lee

Post to the north Waltham Abbey
Post to the west Waltham Abbey
Post to the east Waltham Abbey
Post to the south Waltham Abbey

Abbey
TheAbbey dates from the time of Tovi, a Danish chief, and associate of King Canute. Tovi is said to have found a cross inSomerset which he brought here and founded a church to house it.
Therewas a Saxon church here in 610 which Edward the Confessor gave to Harold,afterwards King. Harold founded a college of secular canons here. It is thoughhe was buried here after the Battle Hastings. Henry II converted it to an Augustinian priory after the murder ofBecket. This became an Abbey in 1184 -it became a powerful and wealthy institution dominating the area around it andbeyond. The building was destroyed atthe dissolution but the parochial area of the church nave remains as the parishchurch. The estate was given to theDenny family, Earls of Norwich.
Abbey Church.The church was retained for the town after the dissolution and the nave andaisles are from the 12^th. Local people built the tower in 1556 afterit has ceased to be the Abbey church – and probably using stone from the Abbey.It now has twelve bells, and a clock. Inside the walls are plain with a paintedceiling copied from Peterborough in the 19^th. The windows are by Burne-Jones. There are wall painting and a stone figure Madonnaof 1400, found in a local garden. The nave columns have chevron decoration. Thechurch was restored in 1960-4.

AbbeyGardens
Viking Hall. Immediatelynorth of the church have been found remains of what has been called The ‘VikingHall’. It is thought to have been a hunting lodge and is associated with Toviand the Holy Cross. Excavation has shown a late-Viking turf-walled hall of aisled construction, plus pits, gulliesand a linear ditch
KingHarold’s grave. To the east of the church, two stones mark the site of the highaltar where King Harold is said to have been buried, along with his brothers,after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. There is however considerable doubt onthis.
TheAbbey site is behind the church, and there are few remains. The crossings andtransepts of the church are marked in the grass while the domestic buildings wereto the north and north-east. An infirmary was built within the abbey precinctcirca 1218 and this with a guesthouse and brewhouse have been identified by excavations. A Medieval aisled building was alsodiscovered during excavations.
AbbeyGateway. This has two arches - one forvehicles, one for pedestrians and a turret is also left from what was once abigger building. Inside the wall is made up of hand-made medieval red bricks,and is thus one of the earliest brick walls in Britain.
PrecinctWall. This wall would have surroundedthe Abbey. They had been licenced to crenellate it in 1369. The wall was mostlydestroyed but a length of 16th wall survives to east of the church.
StoneyBridge. This single arch bridge crosses the Cornmill Stream. It was built in 1370 for goods transport intothe Abbey precinct. A causeway links it to another bridge to the north. There are vaulted ribs under the bridge. Itis often, wrongly, called "Harold's Bridge".
CloisterEntry. This is a late 12^thstone-built passageway with a vaulted roof which led from the outer court intothe cloisters. The stairs probably ledto the dorter. At one time this was known as the Midnight Chapel and in the1930's it was used by local farmers as a potato store
Cloisters. These were four walks once roofed andpaved.
Orchardwall . The stone wall on thesouth side of the orchard was built by the Dennys.
ChapterHouse. Excavation has revealed a rectangular building with a floor of decoratedtiles. Several abbots were buried here. It would have been accessed from thecloisters and was used for meetings and business transactions. The north wallwas used as the south wall of Abbey House.
AbbeyHouse. This was an Elizabethan mansion and gardenbuilt by Edward Denny, who had been given the Abbey estate, about 1590.It was demolished in the 1770s. The moat remains.Survives along with some buttresses which were mainly ornamental. Brickfeatures indicate the positioning fireplaces and windows. This houseincorporated the north wall of the Chapter House as its south wall.
BrickPillars. These date from around 1700 and were part of the southern gateway toAbbey House. They are fine-jointed, with no mortar between the bricks.
Sewers.There is an opening to the Abbey sewers which form an underground network
Moat.This is a large rectangular are which was probably dug in the 17th as a gardenfeature for Abbey House., The meridian line passes through it.
Bloomeryfloor. This forge would have provided metalwork for the Abbey and the Grangebetween the 11^th and 15^th... It was a three-bay aisled building with flintwalls with its own well. The large square areas were for smiths' hearths, andthe smaller ones roof supports. The meridian line passes over it.
MeridianLine – this passes between the moat and the cloisters and then goes straightthrough the Rose Garden where a steel arch forms the Meridian Gateway - with moon, stars and giant red sextant.
AbbeyChurch Centre – information and community hub in what was the Lee Valley ParkInformation Centre which has now closed.
Wormley– a conduit system brought water to the Abbey from springs in the Wormley area.

AbbeyView
Bypass road built in the 1970s.
Grange.The Abbey farmed on an extensive scale. The Great Barn, which was one of thelargest in the country, stood with the farm buildings under the site of AbbeyView and the roundabout.
Partof the Abbey wall and its buttresses lie along the road

ChurchStreet
Knownc.1600 as Water Street
1 Lychgate House. This is a 16^th building facing thechurchyard with some pargeting – the only example in the town - and weatherboarded ground floor. If this is taken together with the WelshHarp it makes up four buildings with a separate gateway. The house has at its core a building ofaround 1400, which may have been a priest's house. At the west end is an original 17th chimneystack.
WelshHarp. Part of the same building group as Lychgate House. Part dates from the 16th but much of it laterrebuilt later.
219^th shop front with steps to the door on a 15^thbuilding. Colour washed with a roughcast front, and the first floor protrudingwith a carved fascia over the window. It hasa carriage entry. There are some older structuresat the back.
3Built around 1500 and of a high quality.
4 19th shop front on a 15^th building.

CornmillStream
This may have been builtbefore 1086 to serve the mills mentioned in the Domesday Book.
Long Pool. This was built around 1581, when part of the Lower Mill Stream wasfilled in and the Cornmill Stream only supplied the water to run the doublemill at the Abbey gates. In 1581 the navigation route was set up using theCornmill stream and then through a flash lock into the Long Pool and back intothe River Lea. In 1590, when the passage of the Lea itself was recut
Dock – excavation at thesouth end revealed the remains of a large timber and planked dock.
Pound Lock. This was built in 1577 on a cut between the Corn Mill Stream and theOld Barge River it was built and lined with timber and had mitre gates at eachend, making it probably the first mitre-gated pound lock in the country. It wascompletely destroyed in 1592
Millsite north of Highbridge. Twinmill-races are all that remain of the water mills which ground corn until theearly 20^th. The Abbot's mill is mentioned in 1482, and there weretwo mills under one roof in 1528. The mill was demolished in 1906.

CrookedMile
BrickWall. This is long and much rebuilt but it is partly part of the Abbey precinctwall form the 15th. A cross with astepped base symbolising the Holy Cross of Waltham.
46Community Centre – smashing little art deco building which doesn’t seem to belisted.

FarmHill Road
Cobbinsbank- retirement homes on the site of Waltham Abbey War Memorial Hospital.
WalthamAbbey War Memorial Hospital was opened in 1921 by Prince Henry, Paid for bypublic donations and built as the town's war memorial to those killed duringthe Great War. It had 8 beds dealing with surgical cases –but like othercottage hospitals, it did not admit people with alcoholism, mania, epilepsy, orcontagious diseases. In 1932 it was extended to 16 beds and new staff quartersplus an Out-Patients Department with an X-ray Department had been built. In threeSecond World War it was part of the Emergency Medical Service. A new buildingwas opened in 1948 and The Hospital joined the NHS in July 1948 dropping theword 'Cottage' from its title. By 1950 it was a GP hospital with 24 beds, itclosed in 1980 with 21 beds and, was demolished in 1984 and sold to developers
WarMemorial plaques from the Hospital stand in a small park on the corner of HoneyLane. These were previously in the waiting hall of the Out-Patients Department wherean annual service was held. The foundation stone, is also included here
Industrialestate
LarsonSocial Club. Hans Ove Larsen was aDanish born nursery owner. He owned land here and gave the hospital site to thetown
Larsen’sRecreation Ground. Sports facilitates here date from the 1920s and were providedfor workers in the Larsen nurseries.
GreenMan Pub. The pub dates from the mid-18^th but was rebuilt in the1880s.

Highbridge
12A timber structure probably of late 17th century date contains two good mouldedbeams (re-used); its east wall (originally the west wall of the building nextdoor) retains a substantial piece of earlier timber-framing.
2–4This was the Cock Inn which was first recorded in 1533. It later became a coachstop, and was rebuilt in 1894. Tiles include the date and the figure of a cock
1217^th timber building.
14-16small 19th shop fronts on a stucco building with weatherboarding at the back.
WalthamAbbey Town Hall. Art Deco for the UrbanDistrict Council of 1904. Built by John BentleyBuilders. There are two arched doorways by the front door which were for thelocal volunteer fire brigade’s horse drawn engine. In 1923 this was replaced bya motor engine
Vicarage. This is a 17^th L-shaped timber-framed house, built in the local tradition. JosephHall, afterwards Bishop of Exeter and Norwich, lived here 1612-34. And ThomasFuller, cleric and historian, lived here 1649-57. It may be the house given asa house for the curate by the Earl of Norwich in 1637.

LevertonWay
Constructedto relieve Church Street of traffic 1960

Lower Mill stream
Thought to have been builtto run the mill mentioned in Domesday

MarketSquare
The medieval market-placedeveloped within a rectangular enclosure – Eldeworth. This enclosure may pre-date the market-place and it mayhave been a boundary to a late Saxon settlement. There is arecord of consent for a market in 1189, and this has taken place on Tuesdaysever since 1560. The line of the Market Square moved southwards, a new terraceof shops built c.1960 when Leverton Street was built as a bypass.
The Cage - the Abbot’sprison- was here.
13 The Queen's Arms Public House. This is a 17th timber framedbuilding with its Ground floor below present street level. Atone time this was the Bull's Head
2016th timber-framed building. There is one singledoor and another double carriage door. It has a "dragon beam,”which is now not visible and which helped construction on a non-rectangularsite.
21Green Dragon. 18^th front on an older,timber-framed building, which is probably 16^th with old cellars below.There is a moulded beam reused as a fireplace lintel in the loungebar. On the front wall is a plaquecommemorating the Market House
MarketHouse - this was built about 1670, and demolished in 1852. The Moot Hall, built after 1250, stood on thesame site and its outline is marked out on the ground.
22-23 19th intrusion
25 modern shop front on a 16th timber framed building

MeridianLine

MonkswoodRoad

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Thomas More and Saint Edward.19^TH Stone and red brick church. This was built as a Methodistchurch

ParadiseRoad
BaptistChapel. There were non-conformists in Waltham Abbeyfor many years meeting at Theobald’s. In the late 1720s 24 agricultural workersand tradesmen raised the money to build a Meeting House which was on the site ofthe front garden of the present Chapel. By 1836 the Chapel was dilapidated Churchesall over the country made contributions for a new building which opened in1836.

QuakerLane
Friends Meeting House. In 1654 George Fox visited Waltham and Shortly after Fox’s a Quaker meeting wasestablished in a lane leading off the Sewardstone Road. The meeting was closedin 1817 and the meeting house was used by the British School. It was demolishedin 1844

Quendon Drive
Waltham Holy Cross Primary School

Romeland
Excavation here showed thatthe area had been a swamp until the 12th when the ground was raised. The area lost manyold buildings in the Second World War
4Crown Pub. The building is 17^th orearlier. In the centre is an artesian well, 50 metres deep, sunk in1878. It once had a lamp above it.
Reformation House – destroyedin the Second World War. It is thought that this may have been built on thesite of a medieval stone mason’s yard. There was a house on the site thought to have had a connection withCranmer.

Roundhills
WalthamAbbey Swimming Pool

SaxonWay
TudorCross pre school

SilverStreet
Formerlythe exit from the Market Square which changed after Leverton Way was built.
FountainPlace. Post-Second World War housing redevelopment with arched entrances toreflect the character of old Waltham.
SpottedCow. Small 19th public house, with fine ceramic panel of the said spotted cow.

SouthPlace
2-316^th house in colourwashed brick withstucco on the first floor. It has exposed timbers and was probablyoriginally a farm house for open land at the back.

StewardstoneRoad
ThriftHall, 19th house pebble dashed
Thrift Cottage. 17th house pebble dashed
15-16 two 18th houses in brown brick, three storeys with dummywindows.
WalthamAbbey Football Club. The ground is called Capershotts and they have played theresince the 1940´s amalgamating with other local clubs. Floodlights and a200-seater stand built with seats, purchased from Manchester City´s Stadium,were installed early 21sr.
Cemetery– Run by the local authority, with red brick 19th chapel and lodge
Capershottsallotments
LidL,on the site of a defunct car salesroom
FireStation, post war
Tesco.Site of Pan Brittanica chemical works who made baby bio among other things.
SultanPub

StewardstoneStreet
Formerlycalled Elford Street is one of the old streets of the town and is likely to beon the line of a Roman road
20Essex House, Chequer brickwork house dated to 1722 on the rainwater heads plus initials ‘IWS’. Now flats. In the 19^thit was the home of poet Samuel Howell,
SalvationArmy citadel
EssexArmy Cadet Force hut

SunStreet
1 16^th building with plaster on a timber framework,there is a bracket with a possibly female figure (or maybe hermaphrite) carrying a jug. This was part of the Greyhound inn.
1-5four distinct buildings; part of it was the Greyhound Inn, mentioned in1648. The two buildings at the far endhave jetties
3, 3a, 3b.Builldings which have been separated and joined atvarious times. The older is part is 16^th with a timber frame andplastered. The other is 17^th with an 18^th front
11 White Lion. The name is a reference to the badgeof Edward IV
14 18^th building with 19th shop front in whitewashedbrick
16 19^th shop front on an older building in whitewashedbrick
18 & 18a modern shop front on an older building, pebbledashed,
19building with an original 19^th shop front in painted weather boardedfront with a contemporary door and window-frames. Carriage entry has been closed.
17-20Meridian line in the pavement between them.
21Sun Inn. Timber-framed building which is first mentioned in 1633. It gave the name to the street, which waspreviously East Street.
24 modern shop front on an 18^th building in red brickbut with a timber frame. There is a wagon way alongside.
24a- 26 19^th brick shop front on an older buildingwith a Central carriageway.
28 19^th front on an earlier building
33 19th front on an earlier building.
34-36This has a 19^th shop front on an older yellow brick building. It wasa doctor's house in the 19th
35Police Station. Built in 1874, it breaksthe street line.
38 19^th shop front on older building
39-41Epping Forest District Museum. Althoughthe street front is an imitation, this is timber-framed. 41 is early 16th century date with an 18^thgarden front.
40 -42 19^th front in yellow brick. Thiswas once the Ship Inn.
44timber-framed house early 17^th which originally extended as far asthe Angel, and had a carriageway to the yard at the rear.
55New Inn rebuilt 1896, a large and elaborate building

TownmeadRoad
TownMead Recreation Centre. Opened 2010

Lee Navigation - Waltham Abbey

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LeeNavigation, Old River Lea, Horsemill Stream and other channels
TheNavigation and associated channels all flow south.

Post to the south Ramney Marsh
Post to the north Waltham Abbey Works
Post to the west Waltham Cross
Post to the east Waltham Abbey
AbbeyView
Bypassroad to Waltham Abbey, which goes round the north of the town and built in1972.
Medieval Bridge - there was a bridge at the point at which the road crosses the Lower Mill Stream. This was linked by a causeway to Stoney Bridge. It was built of Caen Stone and Kentish Rag.

BeaulieuDrive
The road appears to follow the route of the rail line into the Gunpowder Works from Brimsdown. This probably dated from the 1890s, was consiolidated with other railways in 1917 and closed in the 1920s. This roadwas built to provide access to the site in the 1990s as an early part of theremediation process.
Railwaysidings and access areas lay to the west of the road
Saltpetre refinery - From the 1780s saltpetrewas prepared concentrated and crystallised in a refinery whose remains liebeneath the junction of Highbridge Street and Beaulieu Drive

FlagstaffClose
Walton House. Superintendent's office built in 1789, with laterextensions. It is in red brick and the oldest building remaining on site. Thename relates to the purchase of the gunpowder mills from John Walton by thegovernment in 1787.
Mixing House extended to north by one bay before 1830; linked bylater C19 bay to centre.
Saltpetre Mill to left has flat brick flat arches. Saltpetreand sulphur were mixed with charcoal, these ingredients then being crushed inthe incorporating mill.

FowleyMead
CaravanPark

High BridgeStreet
Thename refers to a bridge over the Old River Lea. This was a lifting bridge. Theroad was previously called West Street.
23 HighbridgeHouse. A 19th building with an original shop-front which extends across later buildings.
31The Old Court House. Built in red brick with‘1794’ over the porch. There is a passageway downthe side with a stucco arch.
36this is a 16th timber-framed building.
38this is a timber-framed building with an 18thfront.
40 19th stucco front to earlier structure with 19th shop front
42 19th stucco front to earlier structure with 19th shop front
Tannery- Evidence has been found here of an 18^th tannery.
AbbeyMills. Modern office building now on site. The actual mill site is to thesouth. This was originally a water powered corn mill.The most recent past use was as a scrap yard.
Tunnel - a tunnel was provided for the rail line into the gunpowder works which passed under the road. It was parallel to the river and 3 feet below water level and it was lined with water tight concrete. It was necessary to re-route the town sewer in order to build it and a coffer dam had to be provided for access to pipes.

LeaNavigation
Waltham Town lock. This was built in 1768 and rebuilt in 1922.
A newlock keeper’s house was built in the late 1870s.

LeaRoad
LeaRoad Industrial Park
WalthamAbbey Well, Thames Water. 19^thWater Board building. In the 1880s a deep well was dug and water pumped to Waltham Abbey, Loughton, Woodford, Buckhurst Hill andChigwell by the East London Water Co.
PumpHouse, Water Board house. . Now in private use

LowerIsland
Onlythe northern section of the site is on this square
Extensionof the gunpowder mills. A group of millswere built here soon after the site opened and a new canal and head race builtto power them. This was a press house, corning and reeling houses, and two morepowder mills. Soon after a sulphur subliming plant was built of which thefoundations survive and then, in 1814, two horse powered corning mills. In the1850s more mills were built here including some steam power and the sitecontinued to be used until the Great War. Building remained here into the 1950s amongheavy undergrowth. Group B Incorporating Mills were demolished in 1963 fornorth- south road building and in the late 1960s the Rammey Marsh Flood ReliefChannel was built through the site.
Bankwhich lies towards the south but near the flood relief barrier – this is madeup of refuse material laid on top of the remains of a canal which had gunpowdermills on both sides. There are some brick structures remaining associated withit which are the remains of an Incorporating Mill
Hollow– this is north of the flood control gates and west of the track and it marksthe course of the canal and the site of the mill head race.
Bank –this is west of the hollow marking the canal and on the far side of it is the siteof 19^th Proof Butts.
SulphurRefinery – the foundations of these lie to the north of the site of the ProofButts,
Track– beneath the track lie remains of steam driven Gunpowder Incorporating Millsand a Boiler House built in 1859.

MeridianWay
The road appears to follow the route of the rail line into the Gunpowder Works from Brimsdown. This probably dated from the 1890s, was consiolidated with other railways in 1917 and closed in the 1920s.
RoadBridge over the river Lee. Adjacent to this are the remains of an earlierfootbridge which was within the Royal Gunpowder Mills site.
Foundationsof store buildings lie north of the road bridge with the Millhead Stream on their eastern site.

OldRiver Lea
Replacedas the navigational stream in 1769
Two swing bridges had to be provided for the Gunpowder works railway. These had a central concrete pier with one fixed span and the other pivoting central with half its length on land.

PowdermillLane
9 19th brick building which was additional office accommodationfor the Royal Gunpowder Factory during its expansion at the time of theNapoleonic Wars.
Boiler House. Built 1857 in brick. This includes the DynamoHouse built 1902 added to the boiler house. It is brick with Iron roof trussesinside. Built to provide power for the first steam-powered incorporating mills.The Dynamo House marks change from steam to electric power, and a change tocordite reeling.
Engine House and Mechanics' Shop. Built 1857 in brick. In 1859 a Motor Room was added. Inside areoctagonal cast-iron columns with ornate capitals. A 30-horsepower CompoundSteam Engine. Drove six incorporating mills
The Lodge. Built as house for senior officers at the Factory.

RamneyMarsh Flood Relief Channel
Thisruns parallel to the Navigation

StationRoad
SmallLea Bridge
HoldbrookChristian Fellowship
LeaValley White Water Centre

TownMead
Suggestedthat this was an area of Saxon settlement
GravelPit active in the 1960s and subsequently turned into playing fields. Its construction however destroyed much ofthe head race to the mills.
Area ofsports activities with a leisure centre to the west of here

Small River Lee - Waltham Cross

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Small River Lee
TheSmall River Lee continues to flow southwards and is met by Theobald’s Brookfrom the West.
TrinityMarsh Ditch flows north into Theobald’s Brook

Post to the south Freezy Water
Post to the west Waltham Cross
Post to the north Waltham Cross
Post to the east Waltham Abbey

Abbey Road
Becamepart of the bypass road in the 1970s.

Alexandra Way
HoldbrookPrimary School – small local primary school

Britannia Road
JonesScrapyard once covered munch of this area and was used as a location in thefilm “Goldfinger”
BritanniaBusiness Park
Steelcase.A metal furniture company originating from the USA.
ReynoldsNational Distribution Centre. In 1945 William Reynolds had a fruit and vegstall in Ridley Road Market, Hackney, and by the 1980s was supplying torestaurants in London and beyond. Theylater moved to Spitalfields market and since 2000 have opened a chain of depotsthroughout the country. This site was opened in 2005 under William’s grandson,Tony
Whiteand Co., Removal business opened in Portsmouth in 1871. The business is still family owned with 200 vehicles. The firmstarted with passengers’ baggage from Atlantic liners and now undertakes all typesof domestic and international removals with offices round the world.

BryanstoneRoad
Britannia Nurseries
Railway goods yard – gates still in place. Industrial andtrading area.

Cornwall Close
RecreationGround

Eleanor Cross Road
Previouslycalled Waltham Lane
BusStation
Post office.Royal Mail depot
ConservativeClub. Imperial Hall was a reading roomand library given by Lady Meux in 1896. Boxing matches were held herein the1940’s and in the 1960s pop music performers. A bar and dance hall was openedby Derek Walker-Smith, M.P. in 1974
55 KentuckyFried Chicken. This site had been the Queens Head pub which was once a 19^thcottage and has long been closed.
Railway Bridge,replaced a level crossing
Britannia Courtflats. On the site of the Britannia pub which had an 18^th core and wasan old farmhouse
107-1091840s house, in commercial use.

Eleanor Way
StCyprian church was built in 1893 for Waltham New Town in a road then called TheCrescent by John Crawter. for a time it was served by the Brotherhood of theHoly Cross, and a curate in order to serve people from the estate whichreplaced the New Town. This failed to happen and the church was closed in 1973
TheFriary Care home. This appears to cover some of the site of St.Cyprian’s Church

High Street
214-224Durkan House. Durkan are a building construction company. The building was previously known as BritannicaHouse built in the 1960s on the site of the Maclanco sweet factory. Pan Britannica Industries was a smallagrochemicals company best known for Baby Bio liquid plant food.
WhiteHart Court. On the site of a pub which dated from 1669
GreenfieldHouse. 1750. Demolished. This 18^th house stoodon the east side of the street, at the junction which is now Monarch's Way. Priorto demolition it was owned by the County Council and used as a nursery school.
262 TempleCourt flats on the site of Temple Bar pub
KwickFit. The site was once a blacksmiths founded in 1806 by James Mold and then theMorris family.
207The Vine. A 16th timber-framed inn on a main route out ofLondon. It was given a brick casing in the 18^th but is now roughcast.Waltham Cross is a common variety of grape grown worldwide and developed at theRoyal Nurseries slightly to the east of here in the 1860s. The pub itselfoperates on a different site nearby in a building from the 1970s. The originalbuilding is now used as offices.
TheImmaculate Conception and St. Joseph. Built 1931 and Replaced 1857 church whichis now at the rear. Eleanor Hall was used as the church but is now beingreplaced.
Hall behindthe church which was the original St.Joseph’s School, since replaced. It was foundedin 1900 with help from Lady Meux.
41A BarAb – it was previously The Happy Pig
PavilionsShopping Centre. Built in the late1960s.
Gallowssign for the Four Swans pub which was demolished for the development of thePavilions Centre. The sign originally went across the street. The Swans datefrom 1858 and were elm but replaced in fibreglass moulded from the originals. Thepub itself dated to 1606- although it is said to be where Eleanor’s body restedin 1291.
ElectricityCompany. Showrooms which were originallybuilt for the North Metropolitan Electric Supply Company 1920s.
EasternGas Office and showroom. Originally built for the Cheshunt and Waltham AbbeyGas Company
The Cross.This was an ‘Eleanor Cross’. It was erectedhere in 1291 by Edward I in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile whose body is said to have rested in the Four SwansInn on the way from Nottinghamshire, where she died, to Westminster for burial. A cross was erected at each nightly stoppingplace but only three remain. They were erectedto a basic design but with some variations. The original sculptor was Alexanderof Abingdon, with masons Nicholas Dyminge de Reyne and Roger Crundale. The second and third stages were rebuilt in 1832-3 by W B Clarke and in 1885, under a committee formed by Sir HenryBruce Meux roadway was altered and the replica of the Cross was carved from Kettonstone. It was again renovated in 1950-3, Thus much of it, includingthe statues, are replicas. It is a hexagon with the lowest stage with shields, arches,and gables. The middle stage has three statues in niches and the Third hassingle arches. The three-step base is surrounded by 19^th ironrailings
FalconPub. The original inn was right against the Eleanor Cross and protected it. Itdated from at least 1617 and was a mail house and coach stop with a gallowssign across the street... It was demolished for the new road when the cross wasrefurbished and opened by Lady Meux in 1892. The Falcon was pulled down in 1974 to make way for new developments
FishpoolsFurniture shop. In 1899 Ernest Fishpool set up his first shop. He originallysold clothes as well as furniture and he later moved to 162/164 High Streetadjacent to the present shop at 109-115. After World War I two old armyambulances, became furniture delivery vehicles. In 1957 his grandson opened awarehouse and in 1981, a Watford branch. In 2002 the firm opened a Budget &Outlet Shop and then a further showroom expansion.
123Waltham Cross Library
123 Castlepub. In 1763 called the Bird in Hand, 1756 Bird Cage. Became the Castle in 1853.Closed and gone.
78 Harold House. Brick house with plaque saying‘1757’, fire mark for Royal Union fire insurance company and wrought iron gates.
Embassy Cinema. Thus was openedin 1937 having been built for the Shipman and King circuit and designed by Howisand Belcham with interior decoration by Mollo & Egan. It had a Christieorgan previously in the Court Cinema, Berkhamsted. It was tripled in 1972 and afourth screen added in the restaurant. It is now used for bingo operated byGala having also been known as the Cannon.
77 ElectricPalace Cinema was built by Captain Cecil Clayton of Turners Hill in 1912. CaptainV A Haskett-Smith took it over in the 1920s and sold it to Shipman and King in1931. The name was changed to The Regent. Unable to expand the owners built theEmbassy nearby. The Regent closed in 1973 for bingo. The premises are now ashops and a health club.
Metalpost with ‘BH’ which stands for Bethlehem Hospital, a major local landowner
Moonand Cross. Wetherspoon’s pub on the Site of Waltham House, home of novelist Anthony Trollope, 1859 -1871, where he wrotetwenty-six novels. It was demolished in 1936.
Spitalalms-houses. These stood on the eastside of the street, near the boundary and the M25. Founded in 1600 they became part of the BeaumontCharity. Mew buildings were erected in 1908, but toilets and bathrooms wereadded at the back in the 1960's.
Tollgate cottage built at the site of the tollgate 1725-1869. Demolished.
BoundaryHouse, stood on the Enfield boundary. In the 1970s it was demolished and becamea caravan sales site – now under the M25.

Holdbrook Road
Holdbrookestate with 22 storey tower was a redevelopment of Waltham New Town. The townwas built in 1860s for powder mill workers.

King Edward Road
WalthamCross Baptist church. Founded in 1729 the church first met in the old palace atTheobald’s under Col.Packer, one of Cromwell’s officers. After the Five MileAct of 1665 they had to meet in Epping Forest but after the Toleration Aft of1689 things were easier. A meeting house was built on the site of the present Chapelin what was then Paradise Row and it was paid for by local fundraising. Baptismwas in the local stream. A manse was built in 1769 – demolished for flats in1961. The present building was erected in 1836 following, again, local fundraising.
FourSwannes Primary School. Built on the playing fields of Kings Road School.

Kings Road
KingsRoad Junior and Infant School was built in 1913 by the County Council. The main building was destroyed by fire in 1976, afterit was closed in 1975, and Four Swannes School was built to replace it.

New Ford Road
Industrialand trading estates with some housing.

Railway Road
Gasworks. The works was originally built by a John Brown and taken over in 1867 bythe Waltham Abbey and Cheshunt Gas Company. In 1928 it was taken over by theTottenham and District Gas Company. Nationalised in 1947 it became part of the EasternGas Board but remaining under Tottenham. A gas holder on the site was built in 1880
FoundryGate - site of Enfield Foundry Company Limited. Founded in 1932 by DG Bisset, the Company built theirrecent reputation on producing specialist high-conductivity copper, non-ferrousand iron alloy castings. In 2001 they moved to Braintree.
28plaque with 'Salvation is the Lord'.

Royal Avenue
Siteof the Royal Avenue Nurseries. The Paul family had had nurseries in the areasince 1806 with an emphasis on rose growing. In 1860 son George Paul open RoyalNurseries here south of Trinity Lane. Waltham Cross grapevine was certificatedin 1871 to William Paul by the Royal Horticultural Society. The nursery wastaken over by Chaplin Bros., before 1924.
St.Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School. Built in the late 1960s and replace an earlier school in Eleanor Road

Stanhope Road
CheshuntBoys Club
WalthamCross Clinic. Built in the 1930s. An interesting art deco building

Station Road
Waltham Cross Station. Opened 1840 Northernand Eastern Railway opened as Waltham. It now lies Between Cheshunt and EnfieldLock stations. In 1885 the station was resited and the name changed to WalthamCross (and Abbey) . It was modernised in the 1960s and original buildingsdemolished.
Dugoutcanoe was excavated from east of here

Swanfield Road
Namedbecause of a common field with that name
2-40,1-39 Villas with crests on the gables

York road
Builtas part of development of Queen Eleanor estate built in the 1870s and 1880s
Oldlabour exchange

Theobalds Brook - Cheshunt

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Theobald’sBrook
Theobald’sBrook continues to flow eastwards towards the River Lee

Post to the east Theobalds
Post to the west Bury Green
Post to the south Waltham Cross

AlburyRide
Thiswas built as an access road to Theobald’s estates and developed on the northside in the late 19^th. The south side was built up in the 1930s. Therewas an entrance lodge at the end.
Albury Farm. Farmhouse built 1860. Some of the original wall ofTheobald's Deer Park north of the farmhouseGarden. This was a red brick wall built for James I– because local people had vandalised the previous wooden fencing. Huts of a Second World War anti-aircraftsite were used by the farm for mushroom growing, but since replaced. Importantmilitary remains from the Second World War however remain nearby.
CheshuntRecreation Ground. Developed by the Cheshunt Cricket Club which was founded in1860. Cheshunt Football Club played here when they were formed in the 1880s asdid other sports. There is a clubhouseand other facilities.

Albury Walk
Also called Lovers Lane - it was Love Lane in the 18^th

Cedars Park
CedarsPark. This was given to the local authority in 1921 by Admiral Sir HedworthMeux. It was a condition that therewould be no ball games in the park.
Theobald’s Palace. The palace was built by Elizabeth’sSecretary or State, Lord Burghley near the site of an older manor between 1564and 1585. Elizabeth visited there and the gardens and house were improvedgreatly for these visits. In 1598 the sitepassed to Burghley’s Robert Cecil, also Secretary of State. When James I succeeded Theobald’s was hislast stopping place before arriving in London and later he acquired the houseand site having swapped it in 1607 with the Cecils for Hatfield. Theobald’sbecame James’s favourite country house and it was extended with materials fromEnfield Palace, enhanced the gardens, and installed a menagerie. He died therein 1625. However under the Commonwealth,it was almost totally destroyed on the orders of Parliament and only fragmentssurvive. The house had consisted of two quadrangles one with a cloister and a blackand white marble fountain. There were two gatehouses, one between the twoquadrangles. And on the south side of the house was an open cloister whichexisted until 1765. The estate was bought by the Prescott family in 1750 and ahouse built to the south, which is the current Theobald’s Park. The area wasredeveloped as Theobald’s square in the 18^th with grand house, sincegone. Eventually the estate passed to the Meux family of brewers.
Brickwork – once part of a gardener’s cottage to OldPalace House. This is the surviving south west corner of the Theobald’s Palace.There is a strip of brickwork with a window, renovated in 1979.
Gardens. There were once twocedars, since dead. There is an Amur cork tree planted to commemorate a visit frompeople from Waltham. Massachusetts in 1932. Trees also include: an avenue ofplane trees; a mulberry tree of the sort introduced by James I, a swampcypress; an avenue of Tibetan cherry trees, camellia, yew, Japanese maple, fig,turkey oak, ginko, blue Atlas cedar and tulip tree
Dovecote – with corner stones and red brick from the former Palace. A new dovecotewas planned as part of renovation work.
Milestone – this is a plaque, dated 1621, taken from thrufrom the nine mile Deer Park Wall at Alburywhich was demolished in the 1950s
Grottoand Summerhouse. Two 18th buildings of puddingstone, flint and burnt brick. Thereare five round-headed brick niches and a flint niche with two domed pavilionsat the front
Kitchengarden of the Old Palace with original lower walls in red brick. Bee boles inthe walls.
Lake.Originally used as a Tudor boating lake for Theobald’s Palace. At one end is arounded wall
Canal– built for Elizabeth’s entertainment. Filled in.
Tank– there was a concrete ramp used to house a tank from the Great War. This wasremoved in the Second World War.
Orangery,café etc. there is a considerable complex of buildings in the park.
OldPalace House. Built in the 18^th on the site of the gardens andterraces. It is said the old banqueting-table was in it and the ‘Tiger House’had stuffed tigers in it given to the local authority by Sir Hepworth Meux. Thehouse was burnt down 1971
Jackson’sHouse. Two brick pillars at the site of the entrance of 18^thJackson’s House, which was a private school in 1910, andan important educational establishment in its time. This was oneof the Theobald’s Square buildings, now gone.
Turningbays for horse drawn carriages with tethering wings in the walls.

Crossbrook
Gibbet here in the 17^th
178 Youth services in East Herts College annexe. This is whatwas the Territorial Army drill hall built in 1938 on the site of Sexton'sDairy.
171 at the rear a hall owned by the Comrades of the Great War.This was Cheshunt Hall and the site where the Cheshunt Methodists first met inthe 1860s
149 Loretta’s. 18^th cottages turned into a pub calledThe Eagle in the 19^th.
137 Roman Urn pub. Built in the 1840s. The urn was found in anearby field and is set in the front of the building with the Cecil motto aboveit.
151-155 18^th cottages
133-135 17^th
126 built for the Cheshunt building society as their first premises
117 16^th timber frame building with stucco groundfloor. One window waslost in an explosion at Waltham abbey
116 Dairy Glen house. This was the headquarters of Victor Valuesupermarket chain. It was founded by Victor Cohen.In 1968 it was sold to Tesco. The site is now housing including Dairy GlenAvenue, Cohen Close and Valley House.
LeaValley Growers - An experimental station with glass houses, laboratories, etc. hadbeen set up here in 1912 by the Lea Valley Growers as the Nursery and MarketGardens Development Society Ltd. What was then the Nursery Trades (Lea Valley)Association left their packing station here in 1955 and moved to theExperimental Station in Turners Hill.
113 Crossbrook Tyre and Auto. 18^thBrown brick house
100 Care Aspirations and Britannia Building Society which hastaken over the local Cheshunt Building Society for whom these were built. Theextension is on the site of the Pope John Hall, a Roman Catholic social centre.Thus was originally built as a congregational church in 1856 replacing adissenting chapel of 1706 designed by Isaac Watts whose initials were at thebase of the tower.
99 -101 Springfield. 17th timber framed house, with 18th front. Ownedby the Lee Conservancy
97 The Grange. 19^th brick house and the HQ of the LeeConservancy. Thames Water Eastern Division in 1782 a FriendsMeeting House
88 Limes. 19^th Yellow brick house nowflats.
81-85 19^th cottages
79 18th red brick house with a 19th cast iron porch
77 with a sun fire mark
75 1670 White Cottage 17th timber frame house
69 was a pub called The Crown
67 Stuart House 18^th
64-74 these were Trinity Villas 1844
37 British Legion Hall
36 Coach and horses 18^th rear
Kingdom Hall

Dairy Glen Avenue
Site of Victor Value Headquarters and previous the Lea ValleyGrowers Research Station.

GreatCambridge Road
TescoCountry Club. This was previously the Gothic sports ground. This was on an areaof reclaimed land which was worked for gravel in 1936. After the Second WorldWar it was developed as a sports area.
USbomber crashed between here and the New River in 1944 with its full bomb load.Memorial to the crew in the library. Flamstead End by pass was renamed afterthe pilot, Lt Ellis, because it was believed he had avoided homes rather thanbale out.

GuinevereGardens
Cheshunt Public Library. A Carnegie foundation library which wasopened in 1907 and designed by J Myrtle Smith in red brick. Above the door is acarved plaque with fruit and winged cherubs. It was enlarged in 1965
Cheshunt Magistrates Court. Built 1906 and closed 2009.

High Street
The Wheatsheaf. The current building is 1892.
BissBros. This was a contractor’s private bus garage by the rail station in the 1920s.
Theobald’s Grove Station. Opened 1891 by the Great Eastern Railway. It is now Between Cheshunt and Turkey Streeton One Railway. It was opened on the Churchbury Loop which andCalled ‘Theobald’s Grove’ because there was already a Waltham Cross station. Itis built on a curve carried on blue brick arches. There were two original entrances,and a booking office and an original name board survived on the up platform untilthe 1950s. In closed in 1909 but reopened in 1915 for munitions workers. Itclosed again in 1919 and was used as housing. It opened once again in 1960. Sincethen it has been refurbished and altered with the waiting rooms replaced by shelters.The bases of the original building survive behind new brick walls. The originalbooking office, and the stairways remain but the old down side is fenced off.
The Goods yard was at the London end and opened in 1900. A singletrack served it going down to ground level. It closed in 1966 and is now the. Car park and some housing.
Signal box – this which handled movements in and outof the goods yard. Removed in the 1950s.

KingArthur Court
CheshuntCommunity Hospital

LonglandsClose
The Close is built on the site of the old Vicarage, sold by the local church in order to finance new buildings.
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School. Replacing abuilding in Trinity Lane

Theobald’sLane
CheshuntStadium. This was a gravel pit and a tip which wascleared for the football club in 1949. Two Nissen huts were erected at theentrance. It was not an easy site and the club moved out to return in the mid1950s when the site was drained and levelled and a Clubhouse built. Later a standwas built followed by Floodlights and a function room. In 1982 seating wasinstalled with fittings and wood from an old Tottenham Hotspur stand.
RushLodge. Built 1850 with the Meux crest onthe façade.
Gates to Cedars Park. Were commissioned by thelocal authority for Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee. They give a bronzetimeline of historical events in the park
Hennons.A private house, this was a farmhouse from the 17^th.Called WalkersFarm. A fire mark on the façade is not genuine.

Turners Hill
Halsey Masonic Hall, once known as Walnut Tree House. 18^thhouse with white painted stucco front.
37-39 Lea Valley Growers HQ and experimental station. Moved therein 1957 and built the current building on the site of two cottages

Theobalds Brook - Bury Green

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Theobald’s Brook
Theobald’s Brook flowssouth east and meets two tributary streams from the south

Post to the south Theobalds
Post to the west Broadfield Farm
Post to the east Cheshunt

Barrow Lane
Cemetery. Opened 1855and managed by the local authority.

Bury Green Lane
This is a continuationof Green Lanes which was the drove road into London. The southern part of theroad remains a footpath and to the south of it is a stretch of the Theobald’sWall of 1620. It is also on the line of both the BoundaryBank which divides one sort of inheritance law from another and Ermine Street –and it is also claimed this was the boundary between Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
Tumulus at Bury Green –in the past historians once described a ‘Druidical mound; in this area with ascendingpaths corresponding to the four cardinal points. Not clear if this existed, orwhere it was if it did.
Bury Green Farm. Thefarmhouse is said to have been built in 1892 by Sir Henry Meux and there is aplaque to him on the building. The outbuildings are older.
St.Mary’s Church ofEngland High School. This has been built on the site of Bury Green farm. Theschool dates from 1878 and was originally in Churchgate.
Council housing builtpost-Second World War

Flamstead End Relief Road
Broom Hills – ancientwoodland owned by the local authority
Burygreen Plantation

New River
There is a footpathalong New River from the Flamstead Relief Road.
New RiverCo. marker - near the access gate

Tudor Close
Stile onto the New River path

Theobald's Brook - Broadfield Farm

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Theobald’s Brook
Two arms of Theobald’s Brook meetand flow south east towards the River Lee

Post to the south Theobalds
Post to the north Goff's Oak
Post to the west Woodgreen Farm
Post to the east Bury Green
Barrow Lane
The Boundary Bank which dividesinheritance areas joins the lane by Elm Lodge and then continues along it toHalstead hill
Broadfield Farm. The farm waspart of the Theobald’s Estate. The farmhouse is 19th in yellow stock brick. Barn is17^th timber framed and weather boarded with five entrances. A large mound south of the farm buildings, may, ormay not, be the barrow mentioned in the road name
Footpath to the farm is on theline of the wall which went round Theobald’s Estate in 1621.
Elm Lodge. Victorian house.

Flamstead End Relief Road

Home Wood

Hanging Plantation

Theobald's Brook - Woodgreen Farm

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Tributaryarm of Theobald’s Brook
The tributary arm rises in this area and flowseastwards

Post to the south White Webbs
Post to the north Goff's Oak
Post to the east Broadfield Farm
Post to the east Crews Hill

Old Park Ride
Dysons Osiers
Cattlins

Path from Silver Street
Woodgreen Farm. 18^th Farmhouse In red brick which probably came from Theobald’s Park wall.
Theobald’s DeerPark Wall, east of the farm. 30 metre section of red brick wall surviving fromJames I's Deer Park at Theobald’s. Built in 1620. Partly derelict and heavilybuttressed.

Path from Silver Street
The Coach House. Remainingbuildings from the Wood Green Estate. 19thstable block, converted to house.