The Hertfordshire Golf & Country Club

The Hertfordshire Golf & Country Club is based in Broxbourne, a town in the Lee Valley on the Hertfordshire side of the Hertfordshire-Essex border. The valley here follows the River Lee north from the edge of London, and the landscape is shaped by a chain of reservoirs, gravel pits and river meadows that has long supported outdoor leisure and sporting facilities alongside its role in London's water supply. Broxbourne sits within a well-connected corridor along the A10 and the Lee Valley rail line, giving the area good links both into north London and further up into Hertfordshire toward Hertford and Ware. The flatter, water-adjacent ground typical of the Lee Valley differs from the chalk downland found elsewhere in Hertfordshire, and golf courses built along this stretch of the valley tend to make use of that lower-lying, well-watered land rather than the rolling hill country further north and west in the county. For golfers based in Broxbourne or travelling up from north London, the club's Lee Valley location keeps it within a broader belt of golf and leisure venues that runs along the river, connected by road and rail to both the capital and the market towns of Hertfordshire.