Boreham has two designated
conservation areas, which include buildings of historic importance. The Roman Road/Plantation Road Conservation Area contains, among others, a 16th-century timber-framed clockhouse. The Church Road Conservation Area has The Church, originally a small Saxon building, and several residential buildings.
New Hall School near Boreham One mile to the northwest of the village is
New Hall School, once a palace of
Henry VIII known as The
Palace of Beaulieu. The estate on which it was built – the manor of Walhfare in Boreham – was granted to the Canons of Waltham Abbey in 1062. After a number of changes of possession, in 1491 it was granted by the Crown to the Earl of Ormond. By this time it had a house called New Hall. In 1517 New Hall was sold by
Thomas Boleyn, the father of Queen
Anne Boleyn, to Henry VIII of England. The king rebuilt the house in brick at a cost of
£17,000. He gave his new palace the name
Beaulieu, though the name change did not outlast the century. New Hall was later the estate of the Tyrell family and latterly the Hoare banking family. In 1727, Benjamin Hoare commissioned
architect Henry Flitcroft to build a new home nearby known as
Boreham House, a
stately home; the early
Georgian mansion is now a Grade I
listed building.
Boreham airfield and circuit operations at Boreham airfield A forest near the village was felled in 1943 to build a military airfield, and the three
runways of
RAF Boreham opened in 1944. It hosted elements of the
US Army Air Forces 394th Medium Bomb Group (flying
Martin B-26 Marauder bombers) and later the 315th Troop Carrier Group flying
Douglas C-47 Skytrains. After the Second World War the three runways were adapted into a roughly triangular
motor racing circuit
Boreham Circuit, which held competitive meetings between 1949 and 1952. It was bought by Ford in 1955 for use as a development test track. ==Notable people==