Enfield
Baker Street, Continuation of Green Lanes. Drove road into London Vicarage, Elizabethan house built in Georgian times, 16th century wings Fox Hall The Bell. Demure and tile hungThe Hop Poles. 1909...
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New RiverOld course of the New River cannot be seen now but must it have entered the present New Riverjust south of the Jewish Cemetery, near the end of Tenniswood Road. Ground level rises to that of...
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Albany Park AvenueCreated c.1902, like nearby Albany Road probably so named to commemorate Leopold, Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria, who died in 1884Brick LaneBishop Stopford School...
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Southbury 'Southern manor’ or possibly 'land south of the manor’. ‘Southberyfeld’ 1420, ‘Southbury feld’. Preserves a medieval name recorded in the old field name Southbury Road. Southbury Station,...
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Beggars Bush Fair Lincoln House High StreetBelling and Lee 1922 started and success in making components for radio indicating terminals. 1937 terminal cut outs and made components for radio aircraft...
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Aylands EstateLaid out by Newman Eyre of Romford in 1933.Bullsmoor LaneRailway bridge, which carries Bullsmoor Lane. Here the arch was widened in the same manner as Carterhatch Lane, as if to support...
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Carterhatch LaneRoad name which reflects the name of Nicholas Carter in 1574, while the second element indicates that this lane was an approach to gates of Enfield ChaseCarterhatch Lane Halt 12th...
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Durant’s Park,Saxon frontier post. 1400 Wroth family. demolished 1915. church, Site of old manor house visited by Judge Jeffries, Homestead moatGreen StreetBrimsdown School by Middlesex County...
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Green StreetBrimsdown Station. 1884Brimsdown Primary School.Millmarsh LaneNew customized units .Delta Enfield Rolling Mills. Refiner of fire refined copper and zinc sheet rolling mill. Rod mill...
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Mott StreetGlasshouses once commonplace in the Lea Valley. There were nurseries with glasshouses between Sewardstone Road and the King George V Reservoir.Naked Hall Mill
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Daws HillCarroll’s Farm. Weather boarded Essex farmsteadGilwell ParkReally a memorial to Baden Powell, founder of the Scout movement. Gilwell has long been thehome of Scouting in Great Britain, and is...
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Abbott RoadImposing house, with huge copper dome, built in 1897 by Mr Bevan Braithwaite,a Banker, Government Stockholder and amateur Astronomer, immense cellars linked by hatches and one of them...
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East BarnetMeans 'Eastern part of the burnt clearing'. The Manor belonged to St. Albans Abbey. Mansions on the ridge overlooking Pymmes Park.Buckskin Hall. Recorded as 'Buckskyn Hall' in 1652. On...
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Church HillHouse from where Lady Arabella Stuart escaped Trent ParkGrounds were bought by the County Council in 1951 for a country park. The estate formed after the enclosure of part of Enfield Chase...
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Botany Bay Hamlet on the Ridgeway which grew up following the enclosure of Enfield Chase 1777 and first appeared on a map in 1819. Botany Bay because it was so remote that it might just as well have...
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Bramley RoadChrist the King. 1940. By Dom Constantine Bosschaerts. The first stage of an ambitiously planned priory. Oakwood Station. 13th March 1933. Between Cockfosters and Southgate on the...
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Cherry tree roadYeatmans, jars of jelly with fruit inside. sunny spread, the motehrcare factory was their worksSt Andrew's NewberriesParkWas Old Organ Hall?The HarebreaksSt.Helen...
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Church RoadFriends Meeting House Salters Company Almshouses, 1863 by T. C. Sorby, an example of charitable Mid Victorian architecture. One central range and two short projecting wings. Red brick,...
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Exchange RoadOffice block by Stephen & Partners, 1965, four storeys on stilts, faced. White unbonded tiles. The Telephone Exchange.dates from 1956, with a bulky extension of precast panels by...
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