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You'll have passed an anonymous concrete block high on the opposite bank near where the path to Cheshunt Station peels off - that's the old Metropolitan Police fishery, my personal highlight of that stretch of the Lee Navigation for years. Think it may have had some sort of wartime function or similar in it's day (though exactly what, in Cheshunt, I don't know). It has succumbed to the bidding of bored canister-weilding locals in recent years, but still not bad as dens go - sterling views over Seventy Acres Lake to Epping Forest from the top. Think you might need a machete to get there during high summer though.

Nico | 23.08.09 - 1:36 a.m. | #

Waltham Cross is where the mighty Rumbelows empire was run from

Whither thee now?

Simon Guy | 23.08.09 - 5:50 p.m. | #

And Tescos

mclm | 23.08.09 - 8:02 p.m. | #

And Cliff Richard.

When I was younger, I remember going sailing and canoeing at the Herts Young Mariners' Base, which is located on Windmill Lane near the entrance of the Lee Valley Park and the Cheshunt station level crossing. I remember the marina when it was all ramshackle 1960s buildings, long since demolished for the modern building there now (built about ten years ago). Of course, I couldn't actually sail or canoe, so I inevitably ended up in the bushes at the side of the lake (or indeed capsizing).

Another thing about Cheshunt, of course, is that it was the location of the Temple Bar before it was moved to the entrance of Paternoster Square from St. Paul's Cathedral in 2004. However, you've blogged about that already...

You're going through my old stomping ground now in Broxbourne and Enfield boroughs, so expect a few more comments from me in your LHM this year!

Andrewh | 23.08.09 - 9:29 p.m. | #

Thanks for the inspiration.

Mo | Homepage | 24.08.09 - 12:24 p.m. | #

Thanks for linking to my picture!

kenchie | Homepage | 25.08.09 - 2:33 p.m. | #











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