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Cheshunt

Town in Hertfordshire, England, 23 km/14 mi north of London; population (2001) 14,600. It is situated on the River Lea. Cheshunt is the centre of the Lea Valley horticultural industry, with a large concentration of glasshouses.

It is the site of Cheshunt Great House which belonged to Cardinal Wolsey; from here Charles I set out for Nottingham at the beginning of the Civil War in 1642.

Temple Bar (1672) stands in Theobald's Park, Cheshunt. Bishop's College was formerly the home of a theological college founded by the Countess of Huntingdon, which moved to Cheshunt in 1792.



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