Broxbourne

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Broxbourne
Broxbourne shown within Hertfordshire
Population	13,298
OS grid reference	TL365075
District	Broxbourne
Shire county	Hertfordshire
Region	East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BROXBOURNE
Postcode district	EN10
Dialling code	01992
Police	Hertfordshire
Fire	Hertfordshire
Ambulance	East of England
European Parliament	East of England
UK Parliament	Broxbourne
List of places: UK • England • Hertfordshire

Coordinates: 51°44′58″N 0°01′18″W / 51.7495, -0.0216

Broxbourne is a commuter town in the Broxbourne borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England with a population of 13,298 in 2001^[1].

It is located 17.1 miles (27.5 km) north north-east of Charing Cross in London and about a mile (1.6 km) north of Wormley and south of Hoddesdon. The town is near to the River Lee which forms the boundary with Essex and is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of the M25 motorway.

1 Local government
2 Business
3 Olympics
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Local government

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 was added to the Hoddesdon Urban District, while the rural western portion remained in Ware Rural District, forming part of the civil parish of Brickendon Liberty.

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.^[2]

[edit] Business

Broxborne is home to the world's largest printing plant, which produces publications for News International including The Sun, The Times and the News of the World. Employing 200 people on a 23 acre site to produce 70,000 newspapers per hour, the plant cost £650 million and replaced the News International press in Wapping.^[3]

[edit] Olympics

As part of the London 2012 Summer Olympics, Broxbourne will host whitewater canoe and kayak slalom events in a venue yet to be built.

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 south was being investigated.^[4] Subsequently on 16 April 2008 it was announced that the venue would be built nearby the original Spitalbrook proposal and situated on what was (at the time of the relevant press release) the overflow car park for the showground at the River Lee Country Park.^[5]