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53-721: Cheshunt ( / ˈ tʃ ɛ z ə n t / CHEZ -ənt ) is a town in the Borough of Broxbourne in Hertfordshire , England, 13 miles (21 km) north of Central London on the River Lea and Lee Navigation and directly south of Broxbourne . It contains a section of the Lee Valley Park , including much of the River Lee Country Park . To the north lies Broxbourne and Wormley , Waltham Abbey to

106-473: A brand new convention in Nashville. The return of the convention on August 26, 2022, marks a new era for the once official transformers convention. While Transformers are still the main focus, the convention will also embrace other properties that many in the fandom already enjoy. (see botcon.com) At the 2010 BotCon, Hasbro introduced a "Hall of Fame" awards ceremony to commemorate the people and characters of

159-442: A fact referenced in 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

212-441: 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

265-550: A mixture of commercial and Hertfordshire County Council contract services. Most buses operate to Waltham Cross (where there are links to north London and Essex), Hoddesdon and Broxbourne . The towns of Hertford , Harlow , Potters Bar , and Waltham Abbey are also linked to Cheshunt. Buses are operated by Arriva Shires & Essex , Centrebus , Metroline , Sullivan Buses or Vectare. The Sustrans National Cycle Route 1 passes through Cheshunt as part of its route connecting Dover to Shetland . The Lee Valley Country Park

318-531: A new chapter. On behalf of myself, Bret Lovell, Andrew Hall and the rest of the BC Productions crew, I am honored and humbled to announce: BotCon 2021". Over the years, BotCon has featured many individuals who have worked to bring the Transformers multiverse to life, including voice actors, animation staff, and Hasbro design team members. BotCon returned in 2022 under new ownership (Agabyss), with

371-523: A new out-of-town Tesco store located to the north of the town opened, named "Brookfield Farm". It later expanded, a branch of Marks & Spencer was built next door, and the entire estate was renamed "The Brookfield Centre". Tesco announced in 2015 that it would move its headquarters to Welwyn Garden City . In 1959, Colin Chapman moved his fledgling Lotus group of companies, including Lotus Cars and Team Lotus , from its outgrown premises at Hornsey to

424-417: A purpose-built facility on Delamare Road. Racing cars from here won the first two of its seven constructor championships in ( 1963 and 1965 ) before moving to Hethel , Norfolk , in 1966. Until the late 1960s the main land use around Cheshunt was for its nursery industry, and many new techniques for growing under glass were developed here. Thomas Rochford had a large concern here, although now almost all

477-594: Is twinned with Stains , Île-de-France , France; north of Paris . Borough of Broxbourne The Borough of Broxbourne is a local government district with borough status in Hertfordshire , England. Its council 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

530-595: Is a cycle-friendly route that runs along the River Lea, connecting both cyclists and pedestrians to Ware , Hoddesdon , Waltham Abbey , Tottenham and Stratford . As part of the Big Lottery Fund -financed Connect2 project a new cycle link over the A10 was built in 2010, connecting paths to link Theobalds Lane with Lieutenant Ellis Way, named the "Paul Cully Bridge" after a late local civil servant. Cheshunt

583-760: Is in Transport For London 's Travelcard Zone 8 . Crossrail 2 will connect north-east London to south-west London when constructed and is proposed to stop at Cheshunt station, along with improving the station. Cheshunt is located on the A10 (also known locally as the Great Cambridge Road), which provides links to Junction 25 of the M25 London Orbital Motorway , Central London , Hertford and Cambridge. Also roads lead to Waltham Cross and Waltham Abbey Cheshunt has

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636-550: Is no parish or town council in Cheshunt, which has been an unparished area since 1974. Historically, the parish of Cheshunt was in the hundred of Hertford . As well as Cheshunt itself, the parish also included Waltham Cross . From 1837 the parish of Cheshunt was included in the Edmonton Poor Law Union . On 13 July 1850 the parish of Cheshunt was made a local board of health district . After elections,

689-582: Is twinned with the Sicilian city of Sutera . The borough of Broxbourne 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",

742-676: 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 . BotCon Featured BotCon guests are usually involved in the creation of Transformers media in some respect, whether as voice actors from

795-747: The 2012 London Olympics the Olympic Torch was carried close to the Old Pond by selected and nominated local residents. After the Olympics, gold medal winner Laura Kenny had two postboxes painted gold in her honour, one at the Old Pond. Cheshunt has its own football club in Cheshunt F.C. who play in the Isthmian League Premier Division. Founded in 1946, their most famous player was Iain Dowie who played for them in

848-569: 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

901-532: The Borough of Broxbourne , the area's current local authority district . Cheshunt was not re-established as a successor parish . At the 2011 census , Cheshunt had a population of 45,832. The Prime Meridian passes to the east of Cheshunt. The town name comes from the Old English name (as recorded in the Domesday Book ) for the area, Cestrehunt , which probably refers to a "castle, erected by

954-792: The Crystal Palace TV transmitter Local radio stations are BBC Three Counties Radio and Heart Hertfordshire . The town is served by the local newspaper, Cheshunt & Waltham Mercury which is published by the Hertfordshire Mercury . Cheshunt Station on both the National Rail network and the London Overground network. Services run southbound to Liverpool Street via Tottenham Hale or Seven Sisters and Stratford and northbound to Hertford East , Bishop's Stortford and Cambridge . The station

1007-453: The glasshouses have been redeveloped into housing estates. This is often reflected in the names of the roads or estates, such as Rosedale or Thomas Rochford Way. A small amount of nursery trade survives to the west of the town. The neighbouring town of Goffs Oak had a large number of nurseries as well as a large garden centre, but these have since been closed and redeveloped as mid-range housing developments. The River Lee Navigation passes

1060-489: The 1,000 acres (400 ha) River Lee Country Park and the Turnford and Cheshunt Pits SSSI . Cheshunt has four secondary schools: Goffs Academy ; Goffs-Churchgate Academy ; Haileybury Turnford ; and St Mary's Church of England High School . The non-conformist theological college Cheshunt College moved to Cheshunt in the 1790s from Trevecca , Brecknockshire . It moved to Cambridge in 1905. Between 1909 and 1968

1113-545: The 1980s. F.C. Romania also plays in Cheshunt. Tottenham Hotspur F.C. have also held training grounds in Cheshunt over the years. The town also has long-established rugby and cricket clubs and a publicly owned 18-hole golf course. Formerly Grundy Park Leisure Centre, the Laura Trott Leisure Centre was renamed after £4m redevelopment to honour the Olympic gold medallist. Trott attended the launch on

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1166-590: The Cecil family at Theobalds Palace . King James I later lived at Theobalds and died there in 1625. Richard Cromwell , Lord Protector of the Commonwealth , died in Cheshunt in 1712. The historic palace site is now Cedars Park and holds historical and national significance. In 1825, Cheshunt was also the location of the Cheshunt Railway. Running from the town's High Street to the River Lea near

1219-541: The Hartmans' service mark was transferred to Fun Publications, BotCon regained its status of being the official Transformers collectors' convention. On February 2, 2020, people started to observe new activity on the official BotCon website. On February 3, 2020, Karl Hartman announced BotCon 2021. In a post on the Official BotCon Facebook page, Hartman said, "The story of BotCon is not over. It just has

1272-620: The Romans", the word cestre (along with the form ceastre ), or even its modern forms, chester and caster being derived from the Latin castrum meaning "fort" . This is commemorated in the arms of the former Cheshunt urban district council. Cheshunt was a settlement on Ermine Street , the main Roman road leading north from London. Before the Norman Conquest , the manor of Cheshunt

1325-547: The UK's largest supermarket chain, was located here until 2016. In 2002, Cheshunt hosted the only officially licensed European BotCon convention ever. In 1957, a review of how London was governed was undertaken by government and led by Sir Edwin Herbert , who was appointed to create a new administrative area for London which encompassed more of the city's conurbation than the existing one. Initially, Cheshunt (including Waltham Cross)

1378-715: The US again. In 2003, the convention changed its name to "The Official Transformers Collectors' Convention" (OTFCC), due to the Hartmans' ownership of the BotCon service mark. The fandom held dueling conventions in 2004, as 3H held OTFCC in Chicago, Illinois , while the Hartman brothers revived the BotCon name for their final convention in Pasadena, California . That fall, 3H Productions lost all of its Transformers-related licenses, leaving

1431-492: The animated series, artists or writers from the comic books , or actual Hasbro employees. Fun Publications has held the convention for a number of years, with 2016 being its final year. It was replaced by the now defunct HasCon , Hasbro's own convention, in 2017. The first BotCon was held in Fort Wayne, Indiana , United States in 1994. Organized by brothers Jon and Karl Hartman, the convention had 180 attendees. BotCon

1484-577: The borough lies within the Metropolitan Green Belt which surrounds London . The western side of 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

1537-460: The buildings were occupied by the Church of England's Bishop's College . Since 1972 they have been council offices and formerly a music and business school (typing and accountancy), which had to be demolished due to it being unsafe. In the 1980s parts of the building were so unsafe it was closed and demolished. The main problem was the floors had begun to disintegrate. A new council office was built on

1590-410: The convention in a state of limbo. In early January 2005, Hasbro announced on its official website that Fun Publications , owned by Brian Savage, had been awarded the convention and fan club licenses. The Hartman brothers and prominent fans Pete Sinclair, Benson Yee, and Rik Alvarez were invited to form an advisory council to help ease the transition of organizing the convention for the new owners. Once

1643-560: The convention the organizers often chose to reveal one or more of the exclusives ahead of time due to repeated problems with stolen prototypes being sold on eBay . In 2008, organizer Brian Savage ordered all eBay users selling these prototypes to return them to their rightful owners. Although the toys are always unique, financial costs prohibit the creation of entirely new molds. As such, the toys are redecos or repaints of previously used toys given new identities, occasionally switching allegiances and even gender. Beginning in 2003, some of

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1696-515: The council moved to a large 1860s house called the Manor House at 22 Turners Hill (not to be confused with Cheshunt Great House ). Cheshunt's public library was built in the grounds of the Manor House in 1907. Cheshunt Urban District Council was granted a coat of arms on 25 November 1944. Cheshunt Urban District was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972 , becoming part of the borough of Broxbourne on 1 April 1974. No successor parish

1749-500: 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

1802-544: The east of Cheshunt and was used for the transport of flowers and crops to the London markets for many years until road transport became more viable. A wharf existed just east of the railway on the site now occupied by Herts Young Mariners Base . The Youth Hostel was built on the site of the derelict open-air swimming pool. "Cheshunt Compound", a fungicide developed at the Cheshunt Research Station,

1855-612: The east, Waltham Cross and Enfield to the south, and Cuffley to the west. Historically an ancient parish in the Hertford hundred of Hertfordshire, it was granted urban district status in 1894. Waltham Cross, which became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1885, historically formed the southern part of Cheshunt, and remained part of the Cheshunt Urban District until its abolition in 1974. The urban districts of Cheshunt and Hoddesdon merged in 1974 to form

1908-480: The event, which was held in conjunction with the main BotCon 2002 in the US, had much less advertising and the registration did not open until a couple of weeks before the convention. Since the attendance at the European BotCon had been much smaller than the main show that summer, 3H decided it was too much work to hold two separate conventions, and officially announced that they would never hold BotCon outside

1961-407: The exclusive toys made available to the attendees. The toys are different every year and are not retailed anywhere in the world. The number of exclusive toys increased significantly in 2005 after Fun Publications became the official license holder of the convention. The identities and designs of the toys were originally kept a close secret until the opening of the convention, but in the later years of

2014-453: The exclusives were given new, retooled heads to further differentiate the new characters from previous uses of a mold. As the number of exclusives offered at each convention grew, so did the number of retooled parts. Since then, it has been standard practice to produce three or four newly tooled heads (or other parts such as wings in the case of 2007) for each BotCon. After the convention, exclusive toys usually become valuable collector's items in

2067-604: The first meeting of the Cheshunt Local Board of Health was held in October 1850, with John Sanders being appointed the first chairman of the board. Under the Local Government Act 1894 , Cheshunt Local Board became Cheshunt Urban District Council on 31 December 1894. For the first few years the council used St Mary's Hall on College Road as its offices and meeting place, as the Local Board had done. Around 1901

2120-473: 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

2173-509: The franchise's toys. For 2011, Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay were inducted for the success of the Transformers live-action film franchise. In 2012, the first posthumous award was given to voice actor Chris Latta , who died in 1994. Wheeljack, one of the characters he voiced in the original series, was selected as the Fan's Choice recipient. One of BotCon's most popular features is

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2226-471: The franchise. Hasbro selected the first four robot inductees, while fans worldwide voted for the fifth. In the end, Dinobot from Beast Wars: Transformers won the votes. Among the human inductees were Bob Budiansky for helping create the franchise through comics and personality profiles, Peter Cullen for giving Optimus Prime his voice, and Hideaki Yoke and Kohjin Ohno of Takara Tomy for creating many of

2279-509: The morning before competing in stage four of the first Women's Tour from Cheshunt to Welwyn Garden City. Cheshunt Community Sports Park includes indoor and outdoor bowls courts. Further bowling facilities are available at Whit Hern Park (lawn bowls) and Cedars Park (boules). The Cheshunt Hockey Club is based at Haileybury Turnford school. The town is within the BBC London and ITV London region. Television signals are received from

2332-614: The nearby town. One of the firemen who attended the scene secured funding in 2010 for a permanent memorial at the scene (at the entrance to St Mary's School ). Up until 2004, Temple Bar stood in Theobalds Park , having been moved from London at the turn of the nineteenth century. The gateway has since been re-erected in London at Paternoster Square on the north side of St Paul's Cathedral . Cheshunt has two tiers of local government, at district and county level: Broxbourne Borough Council and Hertfordshire County Council . There

2385-405: The official Transformers convention license, as well as licenses to produce comic books and start a fan club . Shortly thereafter, the Hartmans were removed from their organizational duties, leaving Glen Hallit as the sole organizer of the new company, 3H Productions, Inc. In the winter of 2002, 3H sought to expand to Europe , holding an official European convention in Cheshunt , UK . However,

2438-541: The present-day Cheshunt railway station, this 0.75 mi (1.21 km) horse -drawn line was the first passenger-carrying monorail and the first railway line to be built in Hertfordshire. The town's Bury Green neighbourhood was once the home of singer Cliff Richard . Lotus Cars as well as the central headquarters the Debenhams store chain were formerly located in Cheshunt, and the headquarters of Tesco ,

2491-452: The site of the old school. The council chamber and registry office are now in the same building that contains the "Huntingdon Rooms". The Old Pond area is located in the centre of Cheshunt and is home to many local businesses. With roads leading to the M25, A10 and towards Broxbourne . The 242, 310 and 410 bus routes pass through the town centre. The Laura Trott Leisure Centre is close by. Before

2544-570: The town's railway station at Windmill Lane. At 8:00 am on 12 August 1944, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber from the United States Army Air Forces 392nd Bombardment Group (Heavy) , based at RAF Wendling , crashed next to Maxwells Farm, near Cheshunt, killing all ten crew. The section of the B198 which runs near the crash site has been renamed Lieutenant Ellis Way, after the pilot, who managed to avoid crashing into

2597-538: Was created for the town, and so it became an unparished area. The Manor House was demolished in the 1980s and Edwards Court built on the site. Cheshunt's best-known employer was Tesco, whose head office was in Delamare Road, Cheshunt for many years. A small store in the town centre is still open today, while "Home 'n' Wear" store, which was situated across the Old Pond in College Road, is now closed. In 1983

2650-554: Was held by Eddeva the Fair , but William I granted it to Alan of Brittany . The parish church of St Mary the Virgin was first recorded in a charter of 1146, but was entirely rebuilt between 1418 and 1448 with a three-stage tower topped by an octagonal turret. As Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth I lived at Cheshunt in the care of Sir Anthony Denny , after she left Queen Catherine Parr 's household in 1548. As Queen, she stayed with

2703-512: Was organized in 1995 by Raksha, a prominent figure in the fan community, and in 1996 by Men In Black Productions, headed up by Dennis Barger. In 1997, the Hartmans brought Glen Hallit, a fellow fan, into the fold, forming 3H Enterprises (based on the first letter of the organizers' last names). In 1999, BotCon Europe took place in Clapham Common, Wandsworth, South West London, England. At BotCon 2002, Hallit announced that 3H had secured

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2756-483: Was planned to become part of a borough with Enfield ; however, the plan was eventually dropped and Cheshunt did not become part of Greater London. The Metropolitan Police Service served Cheshunt until 2000, when policing was taken over by Hertfordshire Constabulary . Being located in the Lea Valley , Cheshunt has access to the Lee Valley Park . The park is accessible at many points, one being extremely close to

2809-484: Was widely used by amateur and professional gardeners but has been withdrawn from sale in the UK since November 2010 and it is no longer legal to use it. It was a mixture of copper sulphate and ammonium carbonate . From the end of World War II a large area of the River Lea flood plain was used for sand and gravel extraction which resulted in the creation of the now mature lakes which are popular with anglers , birdwatchers and naturalists . The area now forms part of

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