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HODDESDON

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 556 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HODDESDON , an See also:

urban See also:district in the See also:Hertford See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Hertfordshire, See also:England, near the See also:river See also:Lea. 17 M. N. from See also:London by the See also:Great Eastern railway (Broxbourne and Hoddesdon station on the See also:Cambridge See also:line). Pop. (19o1), 4711. This is the northernmost of a See also:series of populous townshipsextending from the suburbs of London along the Lea valley as far as its junction with the Stort, which is See also:close to Hoddesdon. They are in the See also:main residential. Hoddesdon was a famous coaching station on the Old See also:North Road; and the See also:Bull posting-See also:house is mentioned in See also:Matthew See also:Prior's " Down See also:Hall." The Lea has been a favourite resort of anglers (mainly for coarse See also:fish in this See also:part) from the See also:time of Izaak See also:Walton, in whose See also:book Hoddesdon is specifically named. The See also:church of St See also:Augustine, Broxbourne, is a See also:fine example of Perpendicular See also:work, and contains interesting monuments, including an See also:altar See also:tomb with enamelled See also:brasses of 1473. Hoddesdon probably covers the site of a Romano-See also:British See also:village.

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