The 79 tram at Waltham Cross in 1905 In 1904, the metropolitian tramway network reached Waltham Cross. One year earlier a Hertfordshire County Council Tramways Act was passed, with proposals to provide a service as far as Wormley. It was never put into effect – not, as some people supposed, because the Four Swans sign was in the way, but no doubt because it was considered uneconomic. The last... 

The most southerly of the Borough’s towns is Waltham Cross, a busy commercial centre with a pedestrianised high street filled with shops, supermarkets and banks. At its heart is Eleanor Cross, one of 12 erected between 1291 and 1294 to mark the overnight stops of the funeral cortege of Eleanor of Castille, wife of King Edward I on its way to Westminster Abbey. The Cross is important in that it...