Cheshunt is a small to medium sized
town in
Hertfordshire,
England. It's a relatively quiet place and is firmly on the
commuter belt around
London, where most of its population work.
Cheshunt was probably founded in
Anglo-Saxon times but it is first recorded in
Roman times, from where it gets it's name; Ches from the
latin cestre and hunt, collectively meaning ‘wooded hunt’.
Today, Cheshunt is a relatively unimportant place with it's main to claims to fame being that the first
Lotus sports car factory was situated in Windmill Lane, Cheshunt and
Britain's largest
supermarket chain,
Tesco, has it's head offices here.
It's also my
hometown.