Nazeing and Waltham Abbey Area Guide

Nazeing is a small village in Essex and borders the Hertfordshire village of Broxbourne. There is an amount of light industry in the village and a small parade of village-style shops including a general store, bakers, fish and chip shop and a pharmacy. Nazeing has a central pub, The Crooked Billet, which is of a traditional standing with various quizzes, darts competitions, and a wealth of regular proprietors. There are a handful of other pubs to the outer edges of the village, The King Harold Head being a good example. The King Harold Head is a well-established gastro-style pub that offers a fresh fish market stool each week and is very popular with local residents. At present, Nazeing is largely agricultural and rural land, with Clayton Hill Lake offered to the public as a free-to-walk area of land that forms part of the Lea Valley Park. The Village is also home to Nazeing Golf Club - a parkland course that boasts 6,500 yards of fairway.

Transportation in Nazeing

Nazeing benefits from being a small village next to Broxbourne. Broxbourne's excellent train links from its station into London Liverpool Street, Stratford, Cambridge, and Tottenham Hale, are all accessible and to the benefit of the residents of Nazeing. Broxbourne Station is a short one-and-a-half-mile journey away from Nazeing shops, along a straight road that is both driveable and walkable, depending on how eager you are to get your steps in on your morning commute. Additionally, Broxbourne has well-established road routes that lead on to the A10 and subsequently, the M25. By using the Crooked Mile at the top of Nazeing, the people of the village have easy access to neighbouring Waltham Abbey and on to Sewardstonebury.

Nazeing's Shopping

Alluded to above, Nazeing's constitution lends to there being a nominal level of commerce in the actual locality. A small row of shops supplies residents with the nuts and bolts of day-to-day life. The list of shops is encompassing a general store, fish & chip shop, barbers, baker, newsagent, dry cleaners, and a pharmacy. Residents looking for more robust shopping opportunities venture into Broxbourne, Cheshunt, and Harlow, surrounding larger whistle-stops, that offer a larger diversity of shops and restaurants. Nazeing has a handful of pubs throughout the village, none more obvious than the Crooked Billet along Middle Street, which is very popular with locals, some of which walk to the pub for a couple of hours on Christmas Day.

Housing Allocation in Nazeing

By virtue of Nazeing's historic past, there are a collection of period and character properties in the village. Some of these period properties are considered within Nazeing's Heritage building list and considered landmarks of the village. Fine & Country has been fortunate enough to have marketed and sold a number of Nazeing's Heritage properties over the years. The village has been redeveloped over time, just like neighbouring Roydon, today it boasts a mix of housing styles, including developments of the sixties and seventies housing. Principally, much of Fine & Country's market within Nazeing focuses on Bumbles Green, Broadley Common, and Middle Street & the roads that stem directly from it. Broadley Common and Bumbles Green, typically bring detached cottages and houses to the market with good to fair-sized plots. Middle Street does include a number of similar homes to those found at Broadley Common and Bumbles Green but is centered around late-twentieth-century executive, detached homes with private driveways and gardens of good standing.

Nazeing Meads & Clayton Hill

Nazeing Meads are positioned in Lower Nazeing and are a piece of the wider Lea Valley Regional Park. Nazeing Meads is a ten to 15-minute walk from Dobbs Weir and is inclusive of the large lagoons, expansive wildflower meadows, and mature woodland. As well as wildlife spotting, water sports are a popular pastime at Nazeing Meads. We are told that it is a good place to see Black-Headed Gulls. Clayton Hill is another fantastic open space available to residents and is a popular dog-walking location. A lake is fairly well-centered within the park and is often inhabited by ducks, swans, and the occasional model boat.

Waltham Abbey

Waltham Abbey is a small historic town that borders Waltham Cross, Nazeing, and Sewardstonebury. The area offers several shopping districts that are spread out amongst pockets of moderately modern housing. The town was originally established around the Abbey itself and was known to be a market town. Due to its proximity to surrounding villages and towns, Waltham Abbey is perfectly positioned to remain a fairly peaceful place to live, whilst utilising the amenities and commodities on offer elsewhere. The town is a fleeting drive to the A10 or M25 and its closest station is Waltham Cross Station. Waltham Cross Station feeds into Stratford and Hertford East. Fine & Country's fundamental operating area within Waltham Abbey is associated with the more rural roads on the outskirts of the town, due to the housing style on offer there.

Gunpowder Park, Sewardstone Marsh & Rammey Marsh

Waltham Abbey's gunpowder park was previously used as a place to test munitions. Today it feeds into the Lea Valley Regional Park and is a 284-acre site where art installations are displayed and the public can coexist with local wildlife. The space has one a Green Flag Award, a Country Park of the Year Award, and the London in Bloom Award. The four distinct areas are perfect for cyclists and pedestrians and are home to various events such as a yearly park run. Sewardstone Marsh is the product of previous gravel extraction. It is now a perfect and rare habitat for rare flora and fauna species. Similarly, Rammey Marsh offers over two hundred different flora species as well as a variety of fauna inclusive of the heavily endangered Water Vole. For further information on Lea Valley Parks, check out our Guide on neighbouring Waltham Cross and Cheshunt.