Places to see in ( Waltham Cross - UK )
Places to see in ( Waltham Cross - UK )
Waltham Cross is a suburban dormitory town 12 miles NNE of central London and located within the metropolitan area of London, the Greater London Urban Area, and the Borough of Broxbourne in Hertfordshire. It is immediately north of the London Borough of Enfield and is the most southeasterly town of Hertfordshire, located immediately north of the M25 motorway. The Waltham Cross post town additionally includes the neighbouring town of Cheshunt and a small part of Enfield.
The town falls within Hertfordshire's Borough of Broxbourne, the metropolitan area of London, and the Greater London Urban Area, with Waltham Abbey to the east, Cheshunt to the north, and Enfield to the south. The M25 motorway runs immediately south of the town, bordering the area of Freezywater. The Waltham Cross post town includes the neighbouring town of Cheshunt, some northern sections of Enfield, including the Holmesdale Estate. Waltham Cross is the most southeasterly town within the county of Hertfordshire, and has fallen within its Borough of Broxbourne since 1974.
Waltham Cross formed part of the ancient parish of Cheshunt in the Hertford hundred of Hertfordshire. It formed part of Cheshunt Urban District from 1894 to 1974. In April 1974 the town together with Cheshunt and the Hoddesdon urban district councils merged to form the Borough of Broxbourne. The town takes its name from the Eleanor Cross which stands in its centre.
The High Street is spanned by a gantry sign supporting four sculpted swans. It was originally the sign of the now-demolished Four Swans (or Swannes) public house. The present sign is a replica erected in 2007. The original signs are now kept at Lowewood Museum, Hoddesdon. The area is served by two railway stations, on different lines in London fare zone 7. Waltham Cross station has services to London Liverpool Street and Stratford via Tottenham Hale with links to the Victoria line. To the north services run to Hertford East or Bishops Stortford.
Theobalds Grove station to the north of the town centre also provides services to London Liverpool street via Seven Sisters which also provides links to the Victoria line. The station and its services are run by London Overground. There is a bus station in the town centre where many London Buses routes terminate and link with services further out of London.
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Places to see in ( Cheshunt - UK )
Places to see in ( Cheshunt - UK )
Cheshunt is a town in the Borough of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, but lying entirely within the London Metropolitan Area and Greater London Urban Area. It is 12 miles (19 km) north of central London. The Prime Meridian passes to the east of Cheshunt.
The town name comes from the Old English name (as recorded in the Domesday Book) for the area, Cestrehunt, which probably refers to a castle, erected by the Romans, the word cestre (along with the form ceastre), or even its modern forms, chester and caster being derived from the Latin castrum meaning fort. This is commemorated in the arms of the former Cheshunt urban district council.
Cheshunt was a settlement on Ermine Street, the main Roman road leading north from London. This origin was investigated by the television archaeology programme Time Team. Before the Norman Conquest, the manor of Cheshunt was held by Eddeva the Fair, but William I granted it to Alan of Brittany. The parish church of St Mary the Virgin was first recorded in a charter of 1146, but was entirely rebuilt between 1418 and 1448 with a three-stage tower topped by an octagonal turret.
As Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth I lived at Cheshunt in the care of Sir Anthony Denny, after she left Queen Catherine Parr's household in 1548. Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, died here in 1712. In 1825, Cheshunt was also the location of the Cheshunt Railway. Running from the town's High Street to the River Lea near the present-day Cheshunt railway station, this 0.75 mi (1.21 km) horse-drawn line was the first passenger-carrying monorail and the first railway line to be built in Hertfordshire.
Up until 2004, Temple Bar stood in Theobalds Park, having been moved from London at the turn of the 19th century. The gateway has since been re-erected in London at Paternoster Square on the north side of St Paul's Cathedral. Cedars Park, Broxbourne, on the site of the historic Theobalds Palace, is a public park that covers 19 hectares (47 acres) of parkland and includes a lake, turf play maze, bocce court, play mound (Venusberg), pet's corner, flint arch and historic walls, tea room and arts centre. The park received a Green Flag award in 2013.
The Old Pond area is located in the centre of Cheshunt and is home to many local businesses. With roads leading to the M25, A10 and towards Broxbourne. Cheshunt Station is located in London Oyster Zone 8. Nearby stations include Theobalds Grove, Waltham Cross, Turkey Street, Southgate (Picadilly Line) and Loughton (Central Line). Cheshunt is located on the A10 trunk road (also known locally as the Great Cambridge Road) which provides links to Junction 25 of the M25 London Orbital Motorway, Central London and Cambridge.
Cheshunt has a mixture of commercial and Hertfordshire County Council contract services. Most buses operate to Waltham Cross (where there are links to north London and Essex), Hoddesdon and Broxbourne. The towns of Hertford, Harlow, Potters Bar, and Waltham Abbey are also linked to Cheshunt. Buses are operated by Arriva, Centrebus, Metroline or Sullivan Buses.
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Places to see in ( Stonehaven - UK )
Places to see in ( Stonehaven - UK )
Stonehaven is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It lies on Scotland's northeast coast. After the demise of the town of Kincardine, which was gradually abandoned after the destruction of its royal castle in the Wars of Independence, the Scottish Parliament made Stonehaven the successor county town of Kincardineshire.
Stonehaven had grown around an Iron Age fishing village, now the Auld Toon (old town), and expanded inland from the seaside. As late as the 16th century, old maps indicate the town was called Stonehyve, Stonehive, Pont also adding the alternative Duniness. It is known informally to locals as Stoney. The town is served by Stonehaven railway station, and lies just to the east of the A90 road.
Stonehaven is the site of prehistoric events evidenced by finds at Fetteresso Castle and Neolithic pottery excavations from the Spurryhillock area. The Covenanters were imprisoned in Dunnottar Castle, where many died. A memorial to them can be found in Dunnottar Church. Other castles in the vicinity are Fetteresso Castle and Muchalls Castle, both of which are in private ownership and not open to the public. The oldest surviving structure in Stonehaven is the Stonehaven Tolbooth at the harbour, used as an early prison and now a museum.
Dunnottar Castle, perched atop a rocky outcrop, was home to the Keith family, and during the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Scottish Crown Jewels were hidden there. In 1296, King Edward I of England took the castle only for William Wallace to reclaim it in 1297, burning down the church in the process with the entire English garrison still in it. In 1650, Oliver Cromwell sacked the castle to find the Crown Jewels following an eight-month siege (having previously destroyed the English Crown Jewels). However, just before the castle fell, the Crown Jewels were smuggled out by some ladies who took them by boat to a small church just down the coast in the village of Kinneff, where they remained undetected for eleven years.
Stonehaven was a Jacobite town in the Fifteen and it was a safe base for the retreating Jacobite army to stay overnight on the night of 5–6 February 1716. In the Forty-Five Stonehaven, part of the Episcopalian north-east, was again ‘reliably Jacobite’ and it was one of the north-eastern ports where reinforcements, plus money and equipment were periodically landed from France.
Stonehaven is 15 miles (24 km) south of Aberdeen in a sheltered position on Stonehaven Bay between the Carron Water and the Cowie Water. Stonehaven lies adjacent to a deeply indented bay surrounded on three sides by higher land between Downie Point and Garron Point. The harbour, consisting of two basins, was improved in the 1820s by the engineer Robert Stevenson (grandfather of the author Robert Louis Stevenson) and became an important centre of the 19th century herring trade; the harbour is bordered on the north by Bellman's Head and at the south by Downie Point.
Stonehaven has three Churches of Scotland: Dunnottar Parish Church, Stonehaven South Parish Church and Fetteresso Parish Church, an evangelical Church of Scotland. The town is also home to City Church South, Stonehaven Baptist Church, St James' Episcopal Church and St Mary's Catholic Church.
Dunnottar Castle is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of Stonehaven. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th and 16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been fortified in the Early Middle Ages. Dunnottar has played a prominent role in the history of Scotland through to the 18th-century Jacobite risings because of its strategic location and defensive strength. Dunnottar is best known as the place where the Honours of Scotland, the Scottish crown jewels, were hidden from Oliver Cromwell's invading army in the 17th century.
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Places to see in ( Dunstable - UK )
Places to see in ( Dunstable - UK )
Dunstable is a market town and civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England. Dunstable lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills, 30 miles north of London. These geographical features form several steep chalk escarpments most noticeable when approaching Dunstable from the north. Dunstable is the largest settlement in Central Bedfordshire and third largest in Bedfordshire behind Luton and Bedford.
Dunstable's first railway opened in 1848. It was a branch joining the West Coast Main Line at Leighton Buzzard. A second line linking Dunstable with Hatfield via Luton opened in 1858. Passenger services to Dunstable were withdrawn in 1965, but the line between Dunstable and Luton.
Shops were concentrated along High Street North/South (Watling Street) and in 1966 the Quadrant Shopping Centre opened. By the 1980s, Dunstable town centre was a successful shopping centre featuring major retailers including Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose, Bejam/Iceland, Boots, Halfords, Co-op department store, Argos, Woolworths, Burton and many independent specialist shops including Moore's of Dunstable. These attracted shoppers from outlying villages resulting in a thriving retail town centre larger than would be supportable by Dunstable residents alone. So much so that in 1985 the Eleanor's Cross retail area was developed to cater mainly for smaller shops.
The A5 trunk road lies at the heart of Dunstable's transport infrastructure, directing movement north and south. This movement is additionally complemented by the M1 motorway which is located east of the town in Luton. Dunstable is served by two main operators, Arriva and Centrebus. Arriva runs the interurban services to Luton (direct and via Houghton Regis), Leighton Buzzard and Aylesbury, but other routes have been steadily taken over from Arriva by Centrebus in recent years, which now provides services to St Albans, Harpenden, Luton (direct and via Caddington), Toddington and Milton Keynes. Centrebus also operates three local services within Dunstable to Beecroft/Weatherby, Downside and the Langdale Road estate. Many bus services are financially supported by Central Bedfordshire Council.
Construction of the Luton Dunstable Busway between Houghton Regis, Dunstable, Luton and Luton Airport was completed in September 2013. Much of the busway runs along the lines of the old railway which has been converted into a guided busway and dedicated roadway. Buses travel on ordinary roads around Dunstable, Houghton Regis and at the airport, but benefit from fast transit (up to 50MPH) with few stops on the busway itself between these centres. Dunstable was once served by the Dunstable Branch Lines to Leighton Buzzard and to Luton from Dunstable Town railway station. There have been a number of campaigns for the re-establishment of a passenger railway, but these have been superseded by the Luton Dunstable Busway, which uses the former rail route (see Bus Transport above). Dunstable is one of the largest towns south of the Midlands conurbations without its own rail service. But as part of the small Luton-Dunstable conurbation it is 3 mi (5 km) from Leagrave station.
Within the town centre is the Grove Theatre, Priory House Heritage Centre and the Priory Church where Henry VIII formalised his divorce from Catherine of Aragon. At the heart of the town sits the Quadrant Shopping Centre, whilst across High Street North a secondary shopping community named the Eleanor's Cross Shopping Precinct hosts a modern statue commemorating the original cross. Nearby Luton has the Waulud's Bank prehistoric henge and Luton Museum & Art Gallery.
Dunstable Downs, a chalky escarpment outside the town, is a popular site for kite flying, paragliding and hang gliding, while the London Gliding Club provides a base for conventional gliding and other air activities at the bottom of the Downs. Further into the countryside are the open-range Whipsnade Zoo, a garden laid out in the form of a cathedral at Whipsnade Tree Cathedral and the Totternhoe Knolls motte-and-bailey castle.
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February - March 2016
Sutton shopping UK Manze Pie Ell Shop
Great fun shopping in Sutton in the UK. Stopped for lunch at the Manze Pie Ell Shop located in High Stree Sutton it was an enjoyable lunch for a good price. The shop was full and doing a good trade with nice social customers. I recomend this as a must do experiance while in the Uk check out manze.co.uk for a resturant near you.
Waltham Abbey & the Sir Edward Denny Monument
Waltham Abbey *located north of London & east of Cheshunt, England) was built in 1030. It contains the Ancestral Monument to Sir Edward Denny and Lady Margaret Denny (including their 10 children). My friend Andrew was kind enough to travel 15 miles and shoot this for me. I am completely awestruck as I am a distant cousin of Sir Edward Denny through his mother, Joan Champernowne, wife of Sir Anthony Denny.
****Update: Further work on my ancestry shows Lady Joan Champernowne's nephew Sir Walter Raleigh, Queen Consort Anne Boleyn and her father Thomas as my 2nd & 3rd cousins via the Hoo family, with Queen Consort Catherine Parr as my 4th cousin 13 times removed.
Sir Edward Denny was a favorite Knight to Queen Elizabeth. Edward was born in Hertfordshire and had as a godfather at his baptism, the boy king Edward VI. In his childhood he was left an orphan. Sir Edward's Father, Sir Anthony Denny (close confidant to King Henry VIII) died in 1549 and his mother (Lady Joan) in 1553.
He lived in the golden age of English history and was well acquainted with and associated with the great Englishmen of this period and with the early founding period of America. Though his father's will bequeathed him certain lands in Hertfordshire, he really had to make his own way in the world. By God's favor, Queen Elizabeth's bounty, and his own valor, he achieved a fair estate in the city & county of Tralee, Kerry, Ireland.
He sailed in 1578 with his kinsmen (cousins), Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert to plant a colony in America. The expedition was unsuccessful and he took to capturing Spanish, French, and Flemish ships for the Queen. Sir Edward and Sir Gilbert discovered and founded NEWFOUNDLAND. He was put in command of the company who lay siege to Fort-Del-Ore, Ireland. For this endeavor, he received thanks and favor of the Queen and Council. He took a prominent part in the fighting that defeated the Earl of Desmond who was killed and he brought the Earls's head back and presented it to the Queen. Sir Edward Denny was given the Earl's castle, named Tralee. It was in ruinous condition but contained 6000 acres plus smaller castles and was restored during the reign of James I by his grandson. Tralee was originally called Traleigh stand of the Leigh and was previously owned by the Fitzgerald's -a very old family in Irish history.
The interesting part here is that the Fitzgeralds were closely connected with the Windsors. Through marriage, etc., they became part of the family of the Earl of Desmond and the possibility exists that it was not Sir Anthony at all but rather Sir Edward Denny who adopted the Windsor coat-of-arms into the Denny shield due to his acquiring the Castle Tralee. The question may have been answered by now but was still not researched prior to WWII. Tralee was later destroyed completely (in the 1800's) by the Irish who did not like anything that transpired concerning the English and especially their giving away what was their lands. The Stones of the Castle now line a wide street in Tralee-called Denny Street.
Sir Edward's tomb says he was being of Queen Elizabeth's privy Chamber and one of the Counsel of Munster in Ireland, Governor of Kerry and Desmond and as a Colonel in the military forces of Ireland. The rest of his epithet is very flattering. Sir Edward married Lady Margaret, daughter of Piece Edgecombe in August 1582.
He died in February 1599, actually 1600 by our modern calendar. Lady Margaret outlived Sir Edward by 48 years! The Edgecombes were related to Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, two of the Queens of Henry VIII. She was for five years Maid-of-Honor to Queen Elizabeth, amongst numerous other highly regarded Royal positions. Margaret was part of the Royal Court, since she was 18. King James 1st was very fond of her as well.
Boston, Lincolnshire - UK
October - November / 2015
dobbs weir visit on 1st of June 2018, aerial 4k video {Mavic pro platinum}
Dobbs weir Dobbs Weir is both a weir near Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire and an area of Roydon, Essex in England on the River Lea. It is well known for angling, outdoor beauty and watersports. It is overlooked by the Fish and Eels pub
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