Eley Industrial Estate is in

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. Bordered by the

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which is part of the North Circular Road A406 road, the

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, and the

Lea Valley Lines The Lea Valley lines are a set of suburban rail lines running along the Lea Valley in East London, North London and Hertfordshire to Liverpool Street and Stratford. Historically part of the Great Eastern Railway, the lines now form part of t ...

railway line. The estate is named after

Eley Brothers Eley Limited is a British manufacturer of firearms cartridges. Historically the company has produced a broad variety of ammunition, but today specialises in .22 Long Rifle cartridges for competitive target shooting. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, ...

who manufactured firearms cartridges here. Eley Industrial Estate

Today

The estate is now mostly used for warehousing and retail outlets. The former B&I Nathan furniture factory is now used to manufacture the

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range of furniture.

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are a major employer with a manufacturing plant on the estate. The estate still has some functional brick built factories from the 1950s.Cherry. B, Pevsner.N ''

Buildings of England The ''Pevsner Architectural Guides'' are four series of guide books to the architecture of the British Isles. ''The Buildings of England'' series was begun in 1945 by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, with its forty-six original volumes pub ...

, London4: North'' p432 Retrieved April 17, 2008

External links

Edmonton:Economic History Online
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References

{{Reflist Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Enfield Edmonton, London