CHESHUNT, an urban district of Hertfordshire, England, on the Lea, 16m. N. of London by the L.N.E.R. Pop. (1931) 14,651. Finds indicate the presence of a Romano-British settlement. There was a Benedictine nunnery here in the 13th century. A mansion in the vicinity, the Great House, belonged to Cardinal Wolsey, and a former Pengelly House was the residence of Richard Crom well the Protector after his resignation. Theobalds Park was built in the 18th century. James I. died here in the original mansion in 1625, and Charles I. set out from here for Nottingham in 1642 at the outset of the Civil War. One of the entrances to Theobalds Park is old Temple Bar, moved from Fleet street, London, 1878. The church of St. Mary is Perpendicular, with modern additions. Cheshunt college (1792), reorganized and removed to Cambridge in 1905, was the successor of a college founded by the countess of Huntingdon in 1768 at Trevecca in Brecknockshire for the educa tion of ministers of the Methodist Connexion. Cheshunt is an important centre of market gardening.