pits. However, many of the lakes have now been turned into leisure areas when extraction has been completed for use as water sports facilities and used by sailing clubs, water sports enthusiasts and to provide fishing areas. Education facilities Nazeing has its own primary school – Nazeing Primary School is a Community School for children aged 4 to 11 years and is maintained by Essex County Council. The school is mixed gender and had 254 pupils on the school roll in 2014. Pupils come to the school from the local village community as well as from the neighbouring towns of Harlow and Waltham Abbey. Nazeing Pre-School – Nazeing Pre-School is an Ofsted inspected pre-school for 3- and 4-year-old children. Sport and leisure Nazeing is home to a golf course, a Gym and has a number of youth football teams which play at Bumbles Green Leisure Centre. Nazeing Common Cricket Club – Established in 1883 the club is currently running two sides on a Saturday and two sides on a Sunday. There are many places for fishing in and around the village of Nazeing for example Nazeing Meads which is run by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority There are also good water sports facilities in and around Nazeing for activities such as sailing, some of which use the lakes which have been formed from previous gravel extraction activities. For example, the Broxbourne Sailing Club is actually located at Meadgate Road in Nazeing on the lakes formed by previous gravel extraction works. Redwings Horse Sanctuary – The Ada Cole Rescue Centre, Broadley Common, Nazeing is home to around 70 horses, ponies and donkeys and is open to the public. In October 2005, Redwings merged with the Ada Cole Memorial Stables, a rescue centre established in memory of a lady who campaigned for animal welfare. People from Nazeing John Eliot (1604–90), the 'Indian Apostle' in Massachusetts, lived at Nazeing as a boy. Ronald Hickman OBE (21 October 1932 – 17 February 2011) the inventor of the "Workmate" lived in "Badgers," Middle St., Nazeing, for a period of time (around 1971) before moving to Jersey. Ron Hickman was a South African-born, Jersey-based car designer and inventor who designed the original Lotus Elan, the Lotus Elan +2 and the Lotus Europa, as well as the Workmate. Alan Pond (1926 – 8 February 2008). His business pioneered the idea of self-service filling stations, a system which