HODDESDON, an urban district of Hertfordshire, England, near the river Lea, 17 m. N. from London by the L.N.E. railway. Pop. 6,811. Hoddesdon was a famous coaching station on the Old North Road; and the Bull posting-house is mentioned in Matthew Prior's "Down Hall." The Lea has been a favourite resort of anglers from the time of Izaak Walton, in whose book Hoddesdon is specifically named. The church of St. Augustine, Broxbourne, is a fine example of Perpendicular work, and contains an altar tomb with enamelled brasses of 1473. Hoddesdon prob ably covers the site of a Romano-British village.