This is the web guide to Hoddesdon - a picturesque market town located in rural Hertfordshire with excellent road and rail links to London and within easy reach of two international airports. This historic former coaching town boasts over 50 listed buildings including four seventeenth century inns, an attractive local museum, a recently-restored Victorian clock tower alongside half-timbered houses and elegant Georgian mansions.   Hoddesdon offers a great shopping experience with an excellent combination of high quality independent retailers, major banks and building societies, national chain stores and four supermarkets, plus a twice weekly outdoor market. There is a good selection of hairdressers, card shops, chemists, fashion stores, florists, jewellers and opticians. In addition to the main post office, the town also features individual shops specialising in fishing tackle, hand made furniture, books and weddings. For the location of all town centre businesses visit the Interactive High Street.   The town has an excellent range of coffee shops, pubs, restaurants and fast food outlets. In addition to a recently-refurbished Library and the John Warner Sports Centre, there is Barclay Park with its pond and children’s playground, plus a large Civic Hall offering a diverse programme of popular entertainment, and a popular nightclub. Hoddesdon is at the epicentre of an assortment of leisure activities - the famous Rye House Speedway and RSPB Nature Reserve are just to the north; the Lea Valley Park with its sailing facilities, watersports and riverside walks is on the Eastern edge; the enormously popular Paradise Wildlife Park is a couple of miles to the South; while delightful woodland trails through the ancient Broxbourne Woods can be found on the Western outskirts of the town. To find out what's on in and around Hoddesdon click here.     Having recently seen the enlargement and refurbishment of several of its major shops including Sainsburys, Boots and the Westgate Department Store, Hoddesdon is currently undergoing the largest re-development programme in more than fifty years. £25m is currently being spent on the Tower Centre Shopping Arcade to create larger retail units and new restaurant facilities; while the building of the final phase of the Fawkon Walk precinct will provide a two storey Health Centre with an underground car park, plus new shops units with flats above. For updates on these exciting building projects and other proposed town centre developments click here. This site offers an interactive map of the Town Centre which shows the location of every car park, public facility, shop, café, pub and restaurant with their addresses and contact details. There is also a downloadable version of this map in PDF which you can print off before you travel. You’ll also find information about road and public transport links to the town. For directions to Hoddesdon click here.