Goffs Oak

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 51.7109
longitude= -0.0825
official_name= Goffs Oak
population=
shire_district= Broxbourne
shire_county = Hertfordshire
region= East of England
constituency_westminster= Broxbourne
post_town= Waltham Cross
postcode_district= EN7
postcode_area=EN
dial_code= 01707
os_grid_reference= TL325035

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 Unit 4 + 2 pop music group, Buster Meikle, came from the village. 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.

External links

* [http://www.broxbourne.gov.uk/internet/0x0a14c85a_0x0000a57d/0x0a14c85a_0x0000a586/0x0a14c85a_0x0000a5ab Goffs Oak's page at the Borough of Broxbourne's website]