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Edmonton is a place in the eastern part of the London Borough of Enfield. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
Pronounced Burrow, or Bo-raw. ...
The London Borough of Enfield is the most northerly London borough. ...
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The region (sometimes known as Government Office Region) is currently the highest tier of local government in England. ...
Greater London is the top level administrative subdivision covering London, England. ...
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Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity...
The Ceremonial counties of England are areas of England that are appointed a Lord-Lieutenant, and are defined by the government with reference to administrative counties of England. ...
Greater London is the top level administrative subdivision covering London, England. ...
The traditional counties of England are historic subdivisions of the country into around 40 regions. ...
Middlesex as a traditional county before 1888. ...
A post town is a required part of all UK postal addresses. ...
Australian and UK postal codes are known as postcodes. ...
The UK telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Numbering Plan, is regulated by the Office of Communications (Ofcom), which replaced the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) in 2003. ...
The United Kingdom House of Commons elected on 7 June 2001 contains 659 Members of Parliament (MPs). ...
Edmonton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Greater London is divided into a number of constituencies for London Assembly elections. ...
Greater London is divided into a number of constituencies for London Assembly elections. ...
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The London Borough of Enfield is the most northerly London borough. ...
Location
Edmonton is 8.6 miles (13.8 km) north-north-east of Charing Cross and stretches from just south of the North Circular Road in the south to the M25 in the north and from Hadley Wood in the west to the River Lea in the east. The name Charing Cross, now given to a district of central London in the City of Westminster, comes from the original hamlet of Charing, where King Edward I of England placed a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile. ...
The A406 or the North Circular Road is a trunk-road linking west and east London going via North London. ...
The M25 motorway looking south between junctions 14 and 15, near Heathrow Airport. ...
This article is not about the River Lee that flows through Cork, in the Republic of Ireland; see River Lee (Ireland). ...
Edmonton comprises Upper Edmonton to the south and Lower Edmonton to the north. The Member of Parliament for Edmonton is Andy Love (Labour), who polled 18,456 votes (53.2%) at the General Election held on 5 May 2005. The main shopping centre in Edmonton is at Edmonton Green. Edmonton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Andrew Love (born 21 March 1949, Greenock) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
United Kingdom general elections are the elections held when the Members of Parliament (MPs) forming the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are elected. ...
History Pymmes Park with its historic walled garden is Upper Edmonton's park. Pymmes Park originated as a private estate. In the late 16th century it was owned by the powerful Cecil family. In 1589 Robert Cecil, later 1st Earl of Salisbury, spent his honeymoon at Pymmes. The estate was eventually acquired by Edmonton Council and opened as a public park in 1906. Pymmes House was destroyed by fire during World War II and the remains were demolished. Robert Cecil was a protege of Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's chief spymaster and he succeeded him as Secretary of State in 1590. Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (June 1, 1563 -May 24, 1612), son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and half-brother of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, statesman, spymaster and minister to Elizabeth I of England and James I of England. ...
The title Marquess of Salisbury is a British title of Peerage, created in 1789 for James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury. ...
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (June 1, 1563 -May 24, 1612), son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and half-brother of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, statesman, spymaster and minister to Elizabeth I of England and James I of England. ...
Queen Elizabeth II, of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada etc. ...
In several countries, Secretary of State is a senior government position. ...
The historic All Saints' Church is situated in Church Street as is Lamb's Cottage, which was home to writers Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb. Charles Lamb (1775- 27 July 1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the childrens book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb. ...
Mary Anne Lamb (December 3, 1764 - May 20, 1847), was an English writer, the sister and collaborator of Charles Lamb. ...
Railway and transport The railway arrived in 1840 with the opening of the first section of the Lea Valley Line from Stratford to Broxbourne. A station was provided in Water Lane (Angel Road). As the station was badly sited and the trains were slow and expensive, few people used the railway in the early days, preferring the horse buses. In 1845 there were buses every 15 minutes along Fore Street, travelling alternately to Bishopsgate and Holborn. Stratford originally meant ford in a Roman street and is the name of several places: Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England Stratford, London, England Fenny Stratford, Milton Keynes, England Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, England Stratford, Ontario, Canada Stratford, Connecticut, United States of America Stratford, New Jersey, United States of America Stratford...
Angel Road railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield in north east London, and is in Travelcard Zone 4, on the Tottenham Hale branch of the Lea Valley Lines. ...
Looking north from a pedestrian bridge across Bishopsgate Bishopsgate is a road in the east of the City of London, running north from Gracechurch to Norton Folgate. ...
Holborn (pronounced ho-bun or ho-burn) is a place in London, named after a tributary to the river Fleet that flowed through the area, the Hole-bourne (the stream in the hollow). ...
The single-track line from a junction just north of Angel Road to Enfield Town opened on 1 March 1849, with an intermediate single-platform station at Lower Edmonton, located at the edge of the village green. The service was infrequent and often required a change of train at the junction. This, coupled with the train taking the long way round through Stratford to get to the terminus at Bishopsgate, meant that the railway offered little competition to the existing horse coaches and buses. Angel Road railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield in north east London, and is in Travelcard Zone 4, on the Tottenham Hale branch of the Lea Valley Lines. ...
Enfield Town railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield in north east London, and is in Travelcard Zone 5, on the Enfield Town branch of the Lea Valley Lines. ...
The direct line from London to Enfield Town was opened in four stages, from Bethnal Green to Stoke Newington on 27 May 1872; from Stoke Newington through to Lower Edmonton High Level on 22 July 1872, with stations in Edmonton at Silver Street and a new High Level station at Lower Edmonton, which was renamed Edmonton Green in 1992; the short section from Lower Edmonton High Level to Edmonton Junction (where the new line met the original Eastern Counties Railway route from Angel Road to Enfield Town via Lower Edmonton Low Level) on 1 August 1872; and the suburban platforms on the west side of Liverpool Street station on 2 February 1874. Silver Street is a railway station located in Sterling Way, Edmonton in North London, close to Fore Street. ...
Edmonton Green railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield in north east London, and is in Travelcard Zone 4, on the Seven Sisters branch of the Lea Valley Lines. ...
Liverpool Street station Liverpool Street station, also called London Liverpool Street, is a mainline railway station in the north eastern corner of the City of London, in the heart of the financial district, with entrances on Bishopsgate and Liverpool Street itself. ...
The stations were well sited and offered exceptionally cheap workmen's fares of just 2d on trains arriving at Liverpool Street prior to 07:00, 3d on those arriving between 07:00 and 07:30, and half-price returns on those arriving between 07:30 and 08:00. A horse tramway along Fore Street opened in 1881. The tramway was re-constructed and electrified during 1905, lasting until 1938 when trolleybuses took over.
The old highway Ermine Street passed through what is today Edmonton. Ermine Street was the main Roman Road from London through Lincoln and on to York. Edmonton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it is recorded as Adelmentone. Ermine Street was the Saxon name of a road in England that ran from London to Lincoln and York. ...
A Roman road in Pompeii The Romans, for military, commercial and political reasons, became adept at constructing roads. ...
Lincoln (pronounced Lin-kun) is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England, a bridging point over the River Witham that flows to Boston. ...
York is a city in Northern England, built at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ...
Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror, that was like a census by the government today. ...
The River Lea adjoins the east of Edmonton and runs from the Chiltern Hills through Hertfordshire and the Lea Valley down to the Thames. This article is not about the River Lee that flows through Cork, in the Republic of Ireland; see River Lee (Ireland). ...
The Chiltern Hills are a chalk escarpment that stretches in a south-west to north-east diagonal across several counties of southern England, but is most prominent in Buckinghamshire. ...
Hertfordshire (pronounced Hartfordshire and abbreviated as Herts) is an inland county in the United Kingdom, officially part of the East of England Government region. ...
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Nearest places A rural Tottenham featured in Izaak Waltons book The Compleat Angler published in 1653 [1]. Tottenham remained a semi-rural and upper middle class area until the 1870s. ...
Palmers Green is a place in the London Borough of Enfield in north London. ...
Walthamstow is an area of north-east London, England in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. ...
Winchmore Hill is a district in the London Borough of Enfield in London bounded on the east by Green Lanes (the A105) and on the west by Grovelands Park. ...
Railway stations Angel Road railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield in north east London, and is in Travelcard Zone 4, on the Tottenham Hale branch of the Lea Valley Lines. ...
Edmonton Green railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield in north east London, and is in Travelcard Zone 4, on the Seven Sisters branch of the Lea Valley Lines. ...
Silver Street is a railway station located in Sterling Way, Edmonton in North London, close to Fore Street. ...
Famous residents Charles Lamb (1775- 27 July 1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the childrens book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb. ...
Mary Anne Lamb (December 3, 1764 - May 20, 1847), was an English writer, the sister and collaborator of Charles Lamb. ...
Bruce Forsyth (born February 22, 1928) (real name Bruce Forsythe-Johnson) is a British entertainer and showman who achieved celebrity on the show Sunday Night at the London Palladium, and has since presented game shows such as The Price is Right, Play Your Cards Right, The Generation Game and You...
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (June 1, 1563 -May 24, 1612), son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and half-brother of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, statesman, spymaster and minister to Elizabeth I of England and James I of England. ...
Gladys Aylward was the British missionary worker whose story was made into the Hollywood film, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman. ...
David Jason in A Touch of Frost. ...
External links
References - "The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland" (1868) at Genuki, UK and Ireland Genealogy. (A brief description and history of Edmonton from the 1868 Gazetteer)
- A brief history of Lower Edmonton on the Enfield Council Website. (A succinct account starting early 1800's)
- A brief history of Upper Edmonton on the Enfield Council Website. (A succinct account starting early 1800's)
- Edmonton: Economic History fom British history Online. (This is detailed and starts in 1086)
- Jackson, Alan A. (1999). London's Local Railways (2nd Edition). Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-209-7.
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