Cheshunt

51.7 - 0.028611111111111Koordinaten: 51 ° 42 'N, 0 ° 2' W

Cheshunt is a town in Hertfordshire in England. It is located in the Borough of Broxbourne and is a commuter town in the north of the metropolitan area of London. Cheshunt is located just 20 km from the center of London on the West Anglia Main Line (London- Cambridge ) and at London's orbital motorway M25. The city has about 50,000 inhabitants ( 2001).

In 1825, the first monorail by Henry Robinson Palmer was opened in Cheshunt; it was drawn by horses and used to transport bricks.

Cheshunt is a major location of the retail chain Tesco, whose headquarters was located here a long time. In Cheshunt is also the headquarters of the original car manufacturer Lotus Cars. Until the 1960s, however, Cheshunt was primarily a center of gardening, especially where Thomas Rochford and his company researched new methods of cultivation in appropriate glass houses. The plants were previously transported on the east flowing past Cheshunt Lea and later by land to London. In Cheshunt existed also a shipyard. There is now a youth hostel in their place. In the 1950s and 1960s was dismantled in Cheshunt gravel; the site was then renatured. Today there is the Lee Valley Park. In 2006, the company News International began (part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation) in Cheshunt with the construction of a printing company.

Cheshunt was a long time resident of the singer Cliff Richard. Victoria Beckham lived in the immediate vicinity of Cheshunt Goffs Oak.