Edith's Streets

River Lee The River Lee continues to flow south towards the Thames. Running parallel to it are the River Lee Navigation, and the Flood Relief Channel. Post to the north Holyfield Lake Post to the west Cheshunt Post to the south Hooks Marsh Holyfield Marsh Electric Transformer Station . Built in 1974 on an area that was once fields on the edge of Holyfield Marsh. The site was probably excavated as part of the gravel extraction industry in the 1950s and backfilled in the 1970s. River Lee Navigation Cheshunt Lock .   Built 1768. Rebuilt 1922/. In 19 th it was known as Cheshunt Mill Lock and also Hundred Acre Lock. Lock house altered in the 1870s, described in 1900 as ‘a wretched structure’ and was replaced on a different site in 1909. This was burnt down and demolished in the 1970s, some foundations remain. Seventy Acres Lake Gravel extraction pit, flooded and in recreational use. National Bittern Information Point . Up to the 17th bitterns were widespread in...

Small River Lee The Small River Lee is met by the Turnford Brook which has been joined by Rags Brook from the south and together they flow eastwards to the River Lee TL 36578 03782 Suburban area alongside a tributary to the Lea but near the main river and the navigation. Gravel pits now used for leisure fishing, and other waterside activities. Post to the north Turnford Post to the west Cheshunt Post to the east Seventy Acre Lake Post to the south Cheshunt Cheshunt High Street The Old Anchor Pub with a massive anchor in the car park Cheshunt Wash Until the 19 th this area of confluence of Turnford and Rags brooks was often impassable with flood waters. It has been suggested that the area was a Roman centre called Durolitum; on the basis of Roman coins found here. St Clement Church of England . Built 1898 on land donated by John Earley Cook of Nunsbury on part of the old nunnery grounds. St. Clement Junior School built slightly before the church in 1893 which is al...

Rags Brook Rags Brook continues to flow eastwards towards the Turnford Brook and the River Lee TL35860328 Western end of Cheshunt, around the New River and reservoirs. Getting posher west of the main river Post to the north Turnford Post to the west Flamstead End Post to the east Cheshunt Albemarle Avenue Flamstead End Hall , and community base. Brookfield Lane Led from Cheshunt to the common field of Brookfield. Now cut in two by the A10 and carried over it on a footbridge Reservoir Pump house – Cheshunt Reservoir Booster Station which is said to pump water from the reservoir around the neighbourhood. Cheshunt reservoirs   which were built in 1837 by the New River Company.. North Reservoir .   Built in 1837 to siupply the South Reservoir. The outfall structure has recently been rebuilt. It holds more than 25,000 cubic metres of water above ground level, amd is classifed as a ‘large raised reservoir’ under the Reservoirs Act 1975.   It is no longer us...

Rags Brook Rags Brook flows east towards Turnford Brook and the River Lee Post to the north Cheshunt Park Post to the west Goffs Oak Post to the east Cheshunt Andrews Lane Andrews Lane Primary and Nursery School . Opened in 1970 Rosedale Baptist Church Rosedale Community Centre – this was Fairley Farmhouse built in 1840 and enlarged in 1889, Fairley Cross was the name of the crossroads and the original site of Fairley Farmhouse. Brookfield Flamstead End Recreation Ground. Gravel extraction site where paleolithic remains were found in the 1890s. Cromwell Road Housing on the site of the Cromwell Road Hall, used for Flamstead Institute and given to the village by Frank Debenham when he lived at Cheshunt Park. Flamstead End Road It has been suggested that this was part of an old route from the ford on the Lee to Dunstable and beyond.  This is said to have been marked by large conglomerate boulders - one of which is known to have existed here. Rose Cottage. Vict...

Rags Brook Rags Brook flows east towards Turnford Brook and the River Lee Post to the west Goff's Oak Post to the east Flamstead End Post to the south Goff's Oak Andrews Lane Named for the manor of Andrews, which is first noted in the 15 th . Rosedale Sports Ground – home to a number of sports clubs, including rugby and cricket. Burton Lane Burton Lane follows the line of the Boundary Bank, which has been claimed as the ancient boundary between Essex and Hertfordshire.  It was a boundary which divived inheritance claims of older and younger sons.  Prince of Wales . Beer house in the 1840s which was rebuilt. Dig Dag Hill This may be part of an old route from a ford over the Lee to Dunstable and beyond.  A boulder once existed here and it has been claimed this was a route marker. Isolation hospital once built here Rags Lane The line of the Boundary Bank continues up the lane The Burton Grange . Once called Swiss Cottage but changed in 1875. Now a resta...

Rags Brook Two branches of Rags Brook meet and flow east towards Turnford Brook and the River Lee Post to the north Hammondstreet Road Post to the east Goff's Oak Post to the south Goffs Oak Post to the west Goffs Oak Argent Way New road connecting areas of new housing. Crouch Lane Farms and nurseries along the road. Elm Farm Lucas End Farm Old Elm Farm Rosebury Farm Goff’s Oak This began as a cluster of cottages on the edge of   Cheshunt Common Newgatestreet Road Once known as ‘The Common Road” 3-9 19 th cottages built subsequent to enclosure of the common Goffs Oak Methodist Church . A Wesleyan Methodist presence was in Goff's Lane in 1833 In the 1860s there was a community with a Primitive Methodist "Preaching Station" built a chapel in 1868 fund raised and paid for by the local congregation. A dual-purpose hall was built on adjacent land in 1957 and the old chapel remained and was used for youth work until two prefabs eventually repla...

Rags Brook Rags Brook flows east towards Turnford Brook and the River Lee Post to the south Goff's Oak Bread and Cheese Lane Hammond Street Road North and south of the road is an area for housing development, designated West Cheshunt and marketed as such. Tanfield Farm Rosary Nursery Camps House 18th   Smiths Lane

Turnford Brook The Turnford Brook turns south and flows towards the River Lee Post to the east Holyfield Lake Post to the west Turnford Post to the south Cheshunt Broomfield Avenue Housing which is partly built on the site of Brook House Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age finds on a site near Halfhide Lane. Pottery, flint implements, sling shot and clay loom weights found in 1983.   Canada Fields Housing and commercial development on site previously partly used for rough grazing, partly as a nursery with a since demolished nurseryman’s cottage and glasshouses, and partly allotments. The Turnford Brook, flows east west through the site Canada Lane Housing built on a glasshouse site Pumping station for Turnford Well . Engine house and a well tower, built in 1870 for the New River Company. The Boulton and Watt marine type pumping engine was originally installed by the Hampstead Water Co., subsquently taken over by the New River Co. It had been used to pu...

Turnford Brook and Wormleybury Brook The Turnford Brook and the Wormleybury Brook meet and flow south towards the River Lee Post to the east Turnford Post to the north Wormleybury Post to the west Cheshunt Park Post to the south Cheshunt Cheshunt Park An area of grassland and woodland.   Roman site .   The park was the subject of a 'Time Team' investigation in 2001 which uncovered part of Ermine Street. Pillbox from the Second World War. Hexagonal brick and concrete structure built to guard the stop line. Orchard area which has been replanted with new fruit trees Golf Course Half Hide Lane Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement in this area Broxbourne Business Centre . Retail estate with the usual big shed shops Travellers’ site Broxbourne Services Waste Transfer Station Hell Wood Site of medieval earthwork. There is a rectangular moat with additional earthworks around. Some prehistoric elements were found here A1- Hoddesden By Pass Road built in ...

Turnford Brook The Turnford Brook flows eastwards to the River Lee TL 34140 04912 Fairly posh countryside area with some interesting Second World War defence structures Post to the north - West End and Beaumont Post to the east - Turnford Post to the south Flamstead End Candlestick Lane Stop Line . The section running eastwards from Park Lane Paradise is on the line of the Second World War anti-tank trench – Outer London Anti-Tank Line. Pillbox. East of the lane and north of the golf course and in the corner of a field. Brick pillbox on the stop line and guarding the anti-tank trench in the Second World War. Row of anti-tank blocks in Cheshunt Park Farm farmyard. Meadows – wildlife sites Park Lane Roundcroft Wood . Oak and hornbeam with some sycamore. The Lodge .   17th timber frame cottage, converted in the 19th to a picturesque Cottage Orne.   The lath and plaster infilling is rendered and faced with panels of industrial clinker and glass, with panels ma...

Turnford Brook Turnford Brook rises in this area and flows eastwards to the River Lea Post to the north Wormley Woods Post to the east Wormley Woods Post to the west Ponsbourne Park Ponsbourne Railway Tunnel Air Shaft Wormley Wood Coal post 800 NNW of Tanfield Farm and north of the lake The Roughs Westfield Grove. With remains of medieval and earlier fields and boundaries. Hazel Grove Calves Croft Derry Wood Long Grove

Wormleybury Brook The Wormleybury Brook flows south east towards the Turnford Brook and the River Lee Post to the west - West End and Beaumont Post to the south Turnford A10 Church Lane St. Lawrence Church . A building of brick and flint dating from the 12 th and it includes a Norman door. It is likely however that a wooden church had previously stood here. Belfry rebuilt 1826 and church restored 1886. The wooden weather boarded bellcote was added in 1963 in memory of Col. George Green . Wormley Rectory . 17th timber frame house altered in 1730.   Plastered and roughcast with a Garden front facing the church.   It is surrounded by a red brick wall. Wormleybury . A house was built here in 1489 for the then rector and the site of it is now the lawn outside the present house. It was replaced in 1734 and that too was replaced in 1767 when it was rebuilt again for Sir Abraham Hume by Robert Mylne in brown brick. It has a giant, pedimented portico. Inside decoration 1...

Wormleybury Brook and Turnford Brook Wormleybury Brook flows west towards the River Lee Turnford Brook flow west towards the River Lee Post to the west West End and Beaumont Post to the east Wormleybury Post to the south Cheshunt Park Candlestick Lane Paradise Nursery – this was once Factory Farm where there may once have been a ropemaker Perriors Manor - remains of a  homestead m oat Holy Cross Hill Coal duty post . Dated 1861 it marks the boundary for the payment of the London coal duty. Like others it is white painted cast iron square post with flat pyramid top,   On it are painted the City of London arms . Beech Grove West End Road Holburn Stud farm Trotting track

Wormleybury Brook and Turnford Brook Wormleybury Brook flows west towards the River Lee Turnford Brook flow west towards the River Lee Post to the west Wormley Woods Post to the east Holy Cross Hill Beaumont Road This is a hamlet called Beaumont built around its medieval manor house Beaumont Manor . The present house was built in 1806 and replaced a moated mediaeval building the remains of which are a hundred yards to the north.   The name is thought to have come from Robert Beaumont, Earl of Leicester in the reign of Richard I.   It was previously a property of Waltham Abbey. The current house is a Tudor style stuccoed mansion, with a cloister/conservatory at the rear and a crenellated octagonal tower. Victorian pillar box Thunderfield Grove . Oak, hornbeam plus some crab apple and wild service trees.   This is an old commercial plantation and there is still some Corsican pine and western hemlock. Hornbeam was also grown here commercially and coppiced fo...

Wormleybury Brook and Turnford Brook Wormleybury Brook flows west towards the River Lee Turnford Brook flow west towards the River Lee Post to the north Wormley Woods Post to the east - West Emd - Beaumont Post to the west Wormley Woods Beaumont Road The western section of what was Beaumont Village. A small church, a club room etc.   have all been demolished. Beaumont Villas. Wormley Wood Firs Wood, privately owned woodland adjacent to the nature re serve Baisleys Wood. Privately owned woodland

Wormleybury Brook The Brook continues to flow eastwards towards Turnford Brook and the River Lee Post to the west Wormley Wood   Post to the north - Brickendon Green Post to the south Wormley Woods Pembridge Lane Ettridge Farm . Thought to be named for 17 th farmer, Etheridge. There was also a chapel here in the 19 th .   The Farmhouse is 17 th with a timber frame on black stucco sill and weather boarded. Cart Shed on the road opposite. 18 th with Timber frame and weather boarded White Stubbs Lane Wormley Wood . The wood has been a managed since the Middle Ages for timber production and coppiced. A network of ancient earth banks runs throughout it, which are thought to be late Bronze Age field systems or the boundaries of Saxon Kingdoms. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and also a Special Area of Conservation as a sub-Atlantic and European oak-hornbeam forest.   There are many ancient hornbeam pollards and coppice stools. Streams me...