HODDESDON
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V13,
Page 556
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
HODDESDON
, an urban district in the Hertford parliamentary division of Hertfordshire, England, near the river Lea
.
17 M
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N. from London by the Great Eastern railway (Broxbourne and Hoddesdon station on the Cambridge line)
.
Pop
.
(19o1), 4711
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This is the northernmost of a series of populous townshipsextending from the suburbs of London along the Lea valley as far as its junction with the Stort, which is close to Hoddesdon
.
They are in the main residential
.
Hoddesdon was a famous coaching station on the Old North Road; and the Bull posting- house is mentioned in Matthew Prior's " Down See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
." The Lea has been a favourite resort of anglers (mainly for coarse fish in this part) from the See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
of Izaak Walton, in whose book Hoddesdon is specifically named
.
The See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
of St Augustine, Broxbourne, is a fine example of Perpendicular work, and contains interesting monuments, including an altar tomb with enamelled brasses of 1473
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Hoddesdon probably covers the site of a Romano- British village
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