34-620: Broxbourne is a town in the Borough of Broxbourne in Hertfordshire , England, with a population of 15,303 at the 2011 Census. It is located to the south of Hoddesdon and to the north of Cheshunt , 17 miles (27 km) north of London . The town is near the River Lea , which forms the boundary with Essex , and 5 miles (8.0 km) north of the M25 motorway . To the west of the town are Broxbourne Woods ,
68-691: A national nature reserve . The Prime Meridian runs just east of Broxbourne. The name is believed to derive from the Old English words brocc and burna meaning Badger stream . Broxbourne grew around inns on the Great Cambridge Road , now known as the A10. A number of old houses and inns dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries still line the High Street (now the A1170). The Hertfordshire Golf and Country Club
102-576: A London-biased programme. The area created for the BBC London programme to broadcast to now covers a much more tightly-defined area, chiefly Greater London but still including parts of Bedfordshire , Essex , and Hertfordshire in the East of England region and parts of Berkshire , Buckinghamshire , Hampshire , Kent , Oxfordshire , Surrey and West Sussex in the South East England region. There
136-441: A large modern extension in 1986, which was formally opened on 10 December 1986 by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent . Since the last ward boundary changes in 2012 the council has comprised 30 councillors , with the borough being divided into 10 wards each electing three councillors. Elections are held three years out of every four, electing one councillor from each ward each time. Elections to Hertfordshire County Council are held in
170-674: Is a 16th Century house with later alterations and additions. The Manor of Broxbourne has an entry in the Domesday Book as Brochtsborne, where Broxbourne Mill is listed. The manor was held in the time of Edward the Confessor by Stigand , the Archbishop of Canterbury , but had passed into Norman hands following the Conquest . King John granted the manor to the Knights Hospitallers until
204-438: Is also some overlap with the editorial areas of other BBC regions in this part of England. Oxfordshire (excluding Henley-on-Thames ), most of Buckinghamshire , north Berkshire , north east Wiltshire , south east Gloucestershire and south west Northamptonshire , took an opt-out of South Today for some years before coming to an end on financial grounds in 2022. Most of Kent and East Sussex continues to be covered by
238-524: Is based in Cheshunt . Other settlements in the borough include Broxbourne , Hoddesdon and Waltham Cross . The eastern boundary of the district is the River Lea . The borough covers 20 square miles (52 km ) in south east Hertfordshire , and had an estimated population of 99,000 in 2021. Much of the borough lies within the Metropolitan Green Belt which surrounds London . The western side of
272-522: Is more than most other BBC local radio stations and reflects London's large number of sporting teams and events. The bulletin launched on 1 October 2001 following changes to the coverage areas of BBC transmitters allowing for the establishment of new editorial areas. The main result was a reorganisation of the BBC's South East region; the London area was to break away entirely, while a new programme, South East Today
306-404: Is updated at 31 and 58 minutes past each hour during off peak times, and every 15 minutes, starting at the top of the hour, during evening and morning peaks. It is one of the few radio stations to have access to TfL traffic cameras. Sport is a major part of the radio schedule, with a three-hour sports based programme each weeknight evening and four-hour sport specials on Saturdays and Sundays. This
340-620: Is within the BBC London and ITV London region. Television signals are received from the Crystal Palace TV transmitter Local radio stations are BBC Three Counties Radio and Heart Hertfordshire . The town is served by the local newspaper, Hoddesdon & Broxbourne Mercury which is published by the Hertfordshire Mercury . As part of the London 2012 Summer Olympics , Spitalbrook
374-471: The BBC News at One , the BBC News at Ten and BBC Weekend News . The flagship programme is broadcast between 18:30 and 19:00 each weekday evening, following the end of the BBC News at Six and is presented by Riz Lateef . Comparisons are inevitably made to the commercial TV regional competition, in this case ITV News London , which is produced for ITV by ITN . BBC London can be viewed in any part of
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#1732850978937408-717: The News of the World ). Employing 200 people on a 23-acre (93,000 m ) site to produce 86,000 newspapers per hour on each of its twelve printing presses (a total capacity of over 1,000,000 newspapers per hour), the plant cost £350 million and replaced the News International press in Wapping . BBC London BBC London is the BBC English Region producing local radio, television, teletext and online services in London and parts of
442-569: The 2024 election the composition of the council was as follows: The next election is due in 2026. The council is based at Bishops' College on Churchgate in Cheshunt . The building had been a college for training clergy and comprised an early eighteenth century house to which substantial extensions had been added in 1810 and 1871. The college closed in 1968 and the vacant building was bought in 1972 by Cheshunt Urban District Council. The building then passed to Broxbourne Borough Council on local government reorganisation in 1974. The council added
476-509: The Dissolution , when it passed to John Cock, after whose family Cock Lane is named. The parish church of St Augustine was entirely rebuilt in the 15th century, although a 12th-century Purbeck marble font survives. The interior has a number of monuments and brasses dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries. The three stage tower has a belfry with a peal of eight bells, three of which are dated 1615. The New River which passes through
510-703: The BBC South East region based in Tunbridge Wells , which produces South East Today . The previous news services for the area, in the old BBC South East region, were variously based in Shepherd's Bush , White City and Elstree in Hertfordshire. Following the launch of BBC London, the region moved into facilities in Marylebone High Street , where the news service was based alongside BBC London News and
544-457: The BBC's Governance Unit. The arrangement was only a temporary one, as at the time the BBC was trying to consolidate its London portfolio into a few properties. This included, most notably, the planned closure of BBC Television Centre and the extension and renovation of Broadcasting House , stage one of which would construct a huge wing, mirroring Broadcasting House in shape, size and structure named Egton Wing. The wing has recently been renamed
578-711: The UK (and Europe) on digital satellite channel 954 on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service. BBC London also produces current affairs, features and sports programming for the region including the topical magazine series Inside Out , a 20-minute opt-out during Sunday Politics . BBC Radio London combines speech and music based programmes 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Broadcasting across London on 94.9 FM , DAB , Virgin Media Channel 930, Sky Channel 0152 (in London area only), Freeview Channel 721 and also online. The station
612-615: The borough is largely rural with extensive areas of woodland, whilst the eastern part, particularly between the A10 road and the River Lea, is generally urban. Most of the built-up parts of Broxbourne fall within the Greater London Urban Area . The Lee Valley Park lies on the borough's eastern boundary. The borough is twinned with the Sicilian city of Sutera . The borough of Broxbourne
646-399: The centre of the town, was constructed in the early 17th century. Broxbourne railway station was built in 1840. A terra cotta works was opened soon afterwards by James Pulham and Son , who specialised in creating artificial rock garden features; some of their work survives in the gardens at Sandringham House and Buckingham Palace . Pulham House was demolished in 1957. All that remained
680-600: The civil parish of Brickendon Liberty . In 1931 the parish had a population of 1270. The former area of Hoddesdon Urban District merged with that of Cheshunt Urban District to form the Borough of Broxbourne in 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 . Broxbourne now forms one of thirteen wards of the borough, returning three councillors. Broxbourne had a Non-League football club, F.C. Broxbourne Borough , who played at Goffs Lane, until it folded in 2020. The town
714-494: The council were held in 1973, initially acting as a shadow authority until the new arrangements took effect on 1 April 1974. The Conservatives have held a majority of the seats on the council since 1974: The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Broxbourne, and is usually held by a different councillor each year. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council . The leaders since 1983 have been: Following
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#1732850978937748-421: The council's logo of a badger. The new district was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor. Hertfordshire has a two-tier structure of local government, with the ten district councils (including Broxbourne Borough Council) providing district-level services, and Hertfordshire County Council providing county-level services. The first elections to
782-467: The fourth year of the cycle when there are no borough council elections. The borough's wards are: The main industrial areas of the borough are around Waltham Cross and the Essex Road area of Hoddesdon . Park Plaza at Waltham Cross is home to the world's largest printing plant, which produces publications for News International including The Sun , The Times and The Sun on Sunday (formerly
816-527: The main focus of "regional" news coverage for this area has always been on the capital itself, it has for much of the BBC's life had to offer coverage of other parts of the Home Counties as well. There were many incarnations of regional news programmes in this area before the current programme was introduced in 2001. These included the London segment of the Nationwide from Lime Grove Studios ; in this case,
850-706: The regional presenters for London were also usually the main presenters of the national sequence of the programme which followed. Other identities for the London area coverage were London Plus , and finally Newsroom South East . Originally, the BBC London and the South East region took in the whole of Greater London , together with parts of Essex , Hertfordshire, Kent , Surrey, Hampshire , Buckinghamshire, Berkshire , Sussex, Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire . This meant that sizeable communities which probably deserved dedicated programming of their own – such as Oxford , Luton , Crawley and Medway – were often ill-served by
884-617: The surrounding area. Its output includes the daily BBC London news bulletin and weekly Sunday Politics on television, the BBC Radio London radio station and local coverage of the London area on BBC Online and BBC Red Button . The region's headquarters are situated in the new eastern extension of the BBC 's Broadcasting House . The staple of the local television service is BBC London bulletin which broadcasts daily on BBC One , appearing with short bulletins during BBC Breakfast , after
918-462: The top of the hour are traditionally longer than other BBC radio services at 5 minutes to fit in international, national and local stories with local sport and weather. In addition to the News service, a dedicated travel news service is operated by BBC London on TV, Radio and Online using information supplied by Transport for London , National Rail and National Highways . The travel news on BBC Radio London
952-641: The twentieth century leaving numerous water-filled lakes. Several of the lakes form part of the Lee Valley Regional Park . Broxbourne was a civil parish in the Ware Rural District from 1894 to 1935. In the latter year the more heavily populated eastern end of the parish, including the village of Broxbourne itself, was added to the Hoddesdon Urban District , while the rural western portion remained in Ware Rural District, forming part of
986-472: Was (at the time of the relevant press release) the overflow car park for the showground at the River Lee Country Park . The venue was initially known as Broxbourne White Water Canoe Centre and later officially named Lee Valley White Water Centre . Borough of Broxbourne The Borough of Broxbourne is a local government district with borough status in Hertfordshire , England. Its council
1020-470: Was chosen as the venue for whitewater canoe and kayak slalom events. On 8 October 2007 the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) announced that due to contamination risks at the planned Spitalbrook site, an alternative site six miles (9.7 km) south was being investigated. Subsequently, on 16 April 2008 it was announced that the venue would be built at nearby Waltham Cross and situated on what
1054-400: Was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 , covering the area of two districts, which were both abolished at the same time: The new district was named Broxbourne after the old village of that name at the centre of the area. The village had been administratively part of Hoddesdon Urban District since 1935. The name Broxbourne means "badger's stream", a fact referenced in
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1088-490: Was one of the six brick kilns and the horse-drawn puddling wheel that ground the terracotta, which are now Grade II listed. The local council originally conserved these in 1986, and in 2016 full conservation was undertaken as part of a joint project between B3Living, Lowewood Museum and Broxbourne Borough Council, with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The area was exploited for its gravel and sand extraction in
1122-529: Was previously known as BBC London Live , GLR (Greater London Radio) and BBC London 94.9 . The current Breakfast show presenters are Penny Smith and Paul Ross and the mid morning phone-in show is presented by Vanessa Feltz . The Breakfast and Drivetime shows feature a wealth of local London news and comment with roving reporters out and about. Other programmes such as JoAnne Good or Robert Elms include varied speech and music with local news bulletins every half-hour. News bulletins on BBC Radio London at
1156-470: Was to be created for the new South East region. BBC London, as it came to be called, replaced the long-running Newsroom South East . Greater London and its environs have had a regional BBC television news service for many decades, but the boundaries of the region have always been somewhat nebulous due to the coverage areas of the transmitters used, as television signals do not tend to stick neatly to administrative or historical boundaries. Therefore, while
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