Botany Bay
Location
OS grid reference:	TQ297992
Latitude:	51.676548042080356°
Longitude:	-0.12323051706940413°
Administration
London borough:	Enfield
County level:	Greater London
Region:	London
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Greater London
Historic county:	Middlesex (1965)
Services
Police force:	Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade:	London Fire Brigade
Ambulance service:	London Ambulance
Post office and telephone
Post town:	ENFIELD
Postal district:	EN2
Dialling code:	020
Politics
UK Parliament:	Enfield North
London Assembly:	Enfield and Haringey
European Parliament:	London
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Botany Bay is a village in the northern outskirts of Greater London, and forms part of the London Borough of Enfield, located on the Ridgeway. It is unusual as it is not located on a bay or anywhere near the sea. The reason it is so named is that, at one time a royal hunting lodge existed in the region but the journey from the Royal Court to what was then open countryside was a long and difficult one. A courtier mentioned that 'one might as well be going to Botany Bay' and the name stuck. Image File history File links Greater_london_outline_map. ... Image File history File links Locator_Dot. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... 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It has a population of about 200.