The neighbouring town of Goffs Oak still has a large number of nurseries as well as a large garden centre.

It also serves other surrounding settlements, namely Goffs Oak, Northaw and the west of Cheshunt.

Goffs Oak is a large village in the borough of Broxbourne in Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

Goffs Oak has been used as a film location.

There are a number of Pre-Schools incuding Goffs Oak Pre-School located in Goffs Oak Village Hall.

The tennis player Richard Lewis lived in Jones Road, Goffs Oak and attended Goffs School during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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* Cuffley, serving the villages of Cuffley, Northaw and Goffs Oak

Elsewhere, Goffs Park Road has been given the status of an Area of Special Environmental Quality.

Some examples include the " Goffs " Clan with black and white colors ( sometimes in a checkered pattern ) with splashes of red and a preference ( by background ) for melee combat ; another clan is the " Evil Sunz " that features lots of red and yellow and has a preference for using vehicles.

A left turn onto Goffs Road, the pre-1931 alignment of US 66, becomes a desolate forty-mile ( 64 km ) stretch which served as home to several towns which have mostly vanished including Bannock, Ibis and the aforementioned Homer.

The route then travels north from Goffs to the Nevada line.

); Cheshunt School ; Goffs School ; and Turnford School.

* David Bentley-premiership football player with Arsenal and later Tottenham Hotspur attended Goffs School.

A small park at Goffs Lane contains ruins of his manor-Cheshunt Great House.

Goffs Park Road, between the Brighton and Horsham Roads, began to be built up in 1895, and saw more residential development in the interwar period.

To the west, Goffs Park was established as a parkland and recreational area by the early 20th century.

Its built-up area, excluding Goffs Park — which would lie within the neighbourhood's northwest corner — was to be.

St Wilfrid's Catholic School is a 900-pupil voluntary aided secondary school, which opened in 1952 in the former Oakwood House next to Goffs Park.

Elsewhere, Goffs Manor pub and restaurant is near Goffs Park, and the Half Moon remains on the Brighton Road.

Goffs Manor, in Goffs Park, is a Grade II-listed 16th-century farmhouse which is now a restaurant and pub.

Goffs Park itself was given a Green Flag Award in July 2008 in recognition of its high standards.

Crawley Museum is based in Goffs Park House in Goffs Park, although in March 2010 plans were announced to move it elsewhere in the town — possibly to Tree House, a vacant council-owned listed building in the town centre.

The club shared with Broxbourne Borough V & E from the start of the 2009 – 10 season, at Goffs Lane, This groundshare lasted for one year, with the club finally moving to Enfield in 2010, moving to the now defunct Brimsdown Rovers Goldsdown Road stadium, which they shared with Enfield Town for the 2010 – 11 season, Prior to Town moving out at the end of the season.

In the Spring of 1978 Spencer won the very first Irish Masters by beating Doug Mountjoy 5 – 3 in the final at Goffs Sales Room.

Benson & Hedges continued their sponsorship with the tournament being played at Goffs, Co. Kildare.

Although IFP does not have a VOR on the field, there are three at airports nearby: Kingman VOR / DME ( distance measuring equipment ) is to the east, Needles VORTAC ( military tactical air navigational aids ) is to the south, and Goffs VORTAC is to the west.

To the east the road ran to Crawley through what is now Goffs Park and West Green.

Over the A23 from Gossops Drive is Goffs Park, one of Crawley's main parks.

The ecoregion has forests of Turkish Pine ( Pinus brutia ), oak forests and woodlands, and maquis shrubland of Turkish Pine and evergreen sclerophyllous trees and shrubs, including Olive ( Olea europaea ), Strawberry Tree ( Arbutus unedo ), Arbutus andrachne, Kermes Oak ( Quercus coccifera ), and Bay Laurel ( Laurus nobilis ).

However, there is also a ditheistic theme within traditional Wicca, as the Horned God has dual aspects of bright and dark-relating to day / night, summer / winter-expressed as the Oak King and the Holly King, who in Wiccan myth and ritual are said to engage in battle twice a year for the hand of the Goddess, resulting in the changing seasons.

The FDA has its headquarters at White Oak, Maryland.

A tree planted in 1860 to replace it died in 2004 and was in turn replaced ; the sapling that had been chosen to become the official Oak of Guernica is also sick so the tree will not be replaced until the earth around the site has been restored to health.

Specific sites linked to Robin Hood include the Major Oak tree, claimed to have been used by him as a hideout, Robin Hood's Well, located near Newstead Abbey ( within the boundaries of Sherwood Forest ), and the Church of St. Mary in the village of Edwinstowe, where Robin and Maid Marian are historically thought to have wed. To reinforce this belief, the University of Nottingham in 2010 has begun the Nottingham Caves Survey with the goal " to increase the tourist potential of these sites ".

The UK National Shrine is located at the Catholic church at Crediton, Devon, which has a bas-relief of the felling of Thor's Oak, by sculptor Kenneth Carter.

These include the Otto Erdesz ' cutaway ' viola, which has one shoulder cut out to make shifting easier ; the ' Oak Leaf ' viola, which has two extra bouts ; viol-shaped violas such as Joseph Curtin's ' Evia ' model, which also utilizes a moveable neck and a maple-veneered carbon fibre back, to reduce weight: violas played in the same manner as cellos ( see vertical viola ); and the eye-catching " Dalí-esque " shapes of both Bernard Sabatier's violas in fractional sizes-which appear to have melted-and David Rivinus ' ' Pellegrina ' model violas.

Whidbey is Oak Harbor ’ s largest employer ; thus, Oak Harbor has a predominantly service-based economy and several national chain stores have been attracted to the Oak Harbor area.

Skagit Valley College has a campus located in Oak Harbor, and a limited service campus in South Whidbey.

Located in Coupeville, the hospital has extension clinics in both Clinton and Oak Harbor.

The Naval Air Station in Oak Harbor has a limited service hospital for military personnel, veteran retirees and their dependents only.

UT-Battelle, the laboratory's management and operating contractor, has provided more than $ 10 million in support of math and science education, economic development and other projects in the greater Oak Ridge region.

Oak wood has a density of about 0. 75 g / cm < sup > 3 </ sup >, great strength and hardness, and is very resistant to insect and fungal attack because of its high tannin content.

Additionally, the Oak Processionary Moth ( Thaumetopoea processionea ) has become a serious threat in the UK since 2006.

More recently freight traffic has returned with the carriage of aggregates from Denham to West Drayton in barges and narrow boats, and the opening of a new wharf for re-cyclables and aggregates at Old Oak Common.

** When baled, straw has moderate insulation characteristics ( about R-1. 5 / inch according to Oak Ridge National Lab and Forest Product Lab testing ).

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

Flagstaff has a strong tourism sector, due to its proximity to Grand Canyon National Park, Oak Creek Canyon, the Arizona Snowbowl, Meteor Crater and historic Route 66.

Known as Kett's Oak, it has been preserved by Norfolk County Council, and a new plaque was unveiled in 2006.

Kett's rebellion has featured in novels, including Frederick H. Moore's Mistress Haselwode: A tale of the Reformation Oak ( 1876 )), F. C.

Since the 19th century, the island has had a sizable community of Portuguese-Americans, concentrated primarily in the three down-Island towns of Oak Bluffs, Tisbury and Edgartown ; they traditionally worked alongside other island residents in whaling and fishing.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) has developed a new alternative to skylights called Hybrid Solar Lighting.