Turnford, Hertfordshire
Turnford is a village in the Borough of Broxbourne, in Hertfordshire, England, in an area generally known as the Lee Valley.
Turnford is a village in the Borough of Broxbourne, in Hertfordshire, England, in an area generally known as the Lee Valley. It is bounded by Wormley to the north, Cheshunt to the south and west, and its eastern boundary is formed largely by the Lee Navigation. Central London at Charing Cross is approximately 18 miles (29 km) south. At the 2001 census, together with Wormley, the village had a population of 8,146 in 3,399 households.
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Worth seeing in and around Turnford, Hertfordshire
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Lee Valley Park
Lee Valley Regional Park is a 10,000-acre 26 miles long linear park, much of it green spaces, running through the northeast of Greater London, Essex and Hertfordshire. The park follows the course of the River Lea along the Lea Valley from Ware in Hertfordshire through Essex and the north east of Greater London, through the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to East India Docks Basin on the River Thames.
2.8 km · park in the Lee Valley · Wikipedia - 02Hertfordshire Zoo
Hertfordshire Zoo, previously known as Paradise Wildlife Park and before that as Broxbourne Zoo, is a family-run wildlife park and charity in Broxbourne, in Hertfordshire, England. It came under the management of the Peter and Grace Sampson family in 1984; in 2017, their daughter Lynn Whitnall became chief executive and continued the family business.
3 km · zoo in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills
The Royal Gunpowder Mills are a former industrial site in Waltham Abbey, England. It was one of three Royal Gunpowder Mills in the United Kingdom.
3.3 km · military museum in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Cheshunt Park
Cheshunt Park is a 40 hectare public park and Local Nature Reserve in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire. It is owned and managed by Broxbourne Borough Council.
1.5 km · park in Hertfordshire, England · Wikipedia - 05Waltham Abbey SSSI
Waltham Abbey SSSI is a 34.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which is located within the Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey in Essex.
2.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Augustine, Broxbourne
St Augustine's Church is an active Church in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England. The church stands opposite the New River.
2.7 km · Grade I listed church in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Turnford and Cheshunt Pits
The Turnford and Cheshunt Pits is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Cheshunt in Hertfordshire and Essex and covers a total of 428.17 acres. It is part of the Lee Valley Special Protection Area.
1.5 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire and Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Wormleybury
Wormleybury is an 18th-century house surrounded by a landscaped park of 57 ha near Wormley in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England, a few miles north of Greater London. The house was rebuilt in the 1770s from an earlier house built in 1734.
1.8 km · Grade I listed house in Wormley, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Turnford, Hertfordshire
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 26 km · London Luton (LTN), 29 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 41 km
- Stations
- Cheshunt railway station, 2 km · Theobalds Grove railway station, 3.3 km · Broxbourne railway station, 3 km
- London → Turnford, Hertfordshire25 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £2.5–3.5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Turnford, Hertfordshire153 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £17–22
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Turnford, Hertfordshire156 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £18–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Turnford, Hertfordshire
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Turnford, Hertfordshire. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.
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Next door to Turnford, Hertfordshire
Turnford, Hertfordshire is 21 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cheshunttown in Hertfordshire, England2.3 km
- Waltham Crosstown in Hertfordshire, England4 km
- Broxbournelocal government district with borough status in Hertfordshire, England1.8 km
- Wormleyvillage in Hertfordshire, England1.2 km
- Aimes Greenhamlet in Essex, England, UK3.6 km
- Fishers Greensettlement in Essex2.1 km