Waltham Cross
The town was built by Edward 1 in 1292 in memory of his beloved Eleanor of Castile building a cross marking where her funeral carriage rested at twelve separate points, one being here, now a Grade 1 listed monument and one of only three remaining.
The commercial town centre is pedestrainised, including the covered shopping area in The Pavillion allowing local markets every Wednesday and Friday.
A little way to the left of Waltham stands Temple Bar, built by Sir Christopher Wren, stone for stone intact as it was in the days when traitors’ heads were raised above it in Fleet Street, although the original wooden gates have gone. It is now used as an entrance to Theobald’s Park, an estate traded for Hatfield House by King James I to the Family of Cecil’s.
Theobalds was a palace to King James I and is currently property of the councils mainly used as a nature education and conservation area.
Waltham Cross is less than half a mile from Enfield and adjoins to Cheshunt, it is the most southerly town in Broxbourne. Theolbald’s Park Train Station separates Cheshunt and Waltham Cross and both have trains that take you down to Liverpool Street in approximately twenty minutes. Both Junction 25 and 26 are accessible from here.
Local Primary Schools: Holdbrook Primary, Four Swannes Primary, St Josephs RC, Hurst Drive.
The town was built by Edward 1 in 1292 in memory of his beloved Eleanor of Castile building a cross marking where her funeral carriage rested at twelve separate points, one being here, now a Grade 1 listed monument and one of only three remaining.
The commercial town centre is pedestrainised, including the covered shopping area in The Pavillion allowing local markets every Wednesday and Friday.
A little way to the left of Waltham stands Temple Bar, built by Sir Christopher Wren, stone for stone intact as it was in the days when traitors’ heads were raised above it in Fleet Street, although the original wooden gates have gone. It is now used as an entrance to Theobald’s Park, an estate traded for Hatfield House by King James I to the Family of Cecil’s.
Theobalds was a palace to King James I and is currently property of the councils mainly used as a nature education and conservation area.
Waltham Cross is less than half a mile from Enfield and adjoins to Cheshunt, it is the most southerly town in Broxbourne. Theolbald’s Park Train Station separates Cheshunt and Waltham Cross and both have trains that take you down to Liverpool Street in approximately twenty minutes. Both Junction 25 and 26 are accessible from here.
Local Primary Schools: Holdbrook Primary, Four Swannes Primary, St Josephs RC, Hurst Drive.
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Does anyone know about the Castle estate in WX
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