Goffs Oak

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Goffs Oak
Goffs Oak (Hertfordshire)
Goffs Oak

Goffs Oak shown within Hertfordshire
OS grid reference TL325035
District Broxbourne
Shire county Hertfordshire
Region East
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Waltham Cross
Postcode district EN7
Dialling code 01707
Police Hertfordshire
Fire Hertfordshire
Ambulance East of England
European Parliament East of England
UK Parliament Broxbourne
List of places: UKEnglandHertfordshire

Coordinates: 51°42′39″N 0°04′57″W / 51.7109, -0.0825

Goffs Oak is a large village in the borough of Broxbourne in Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. It is situated between Cuffley and Cheshunt, just north of the M25 motorway in a slightly more rural section of the London commuter belt. Goffs Oak has achieved some fame by being the hometown of Victoria Beckham.

The village is named after the Goff family, which owned the area, and symbolised by the original Old Oak, said to be several hundred years old before it fell in 1987 after severe damage during the hurricane of 1987. It has nearby links to London's Kings Cross Station by Cuffley railway station and to Liverpool Street by Cheshunt railway station.

A number of celebrities besides Victoria Beckham have lived in or around the village. In the "Swinging Sixties", one of the founding members of the famous Unit 4 + 2 group, Buster Meikle, came from the village, as did his neighbour Leon Everitt, a top 1960s disc jockey. Cliff Richard lived in nearby Cheshunt on the Bury Green estate from 1951 and went to "Cheshunt Secondary Modern", the newly built secondary school close by. This was the same school that Buster Meikle attended.

There used to be a Doctor Who style police box next to the war memorial in the 1950s.

Tottenham Hotspur players such as Danny Blanchflower , Tommy Harmer "The Charmer" et al. used to run up to and through Goffs Oak as part of their stamina training when their training ground was based in Brookfield Lane, Cheshunt.

The village held a fayre celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005.

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