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Enfield Highway is an area in the
London Borough of Enfield The London Borough of Enfield () is a London boroughs, London borough in Greater London, England. The main communities in the borough are Edmonton, London, Edmonton, Enfield, London, Enfield, Southgate, London, Southgate and Palmers Green. Enfi ...
, north London. It is roughly located in the area either side of Hertford Road (Enfield Highway) between Hoe Lane and The Ride.


Etymology

Enfield Highway is marked thus on the
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map of 1822, it is a settlement mainly from the eighteenth century named from the '' kings highe way leading to London'' 1610, the highway being the
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Ermine Street (now the A1010 Hertford Road). The name of the hamlet along this stretch of road was recorded as "Cocksmiths End" in 1572 and in 1658.


Education

* Enfield College * St Ignatius' College * Bishop Stopford's School Thomas Ford in his history of Enfield (1873) records the existence in Enfield Highway of "a school for 160 boys, with a master's house, built in 1872, near the Church, under a certificated master and three pupil teachers" and a "girls' and infants' school at the Highway, for 260 children, taught by a certificated mistress, and four pupil teachers."


Library

A public library, built with the aid of a grant from the Carnegie Foundation was opened Enfield Highway in 1910. An enlarged lending library was added to the rear of the building in 1938. The borough's travelling library (started in 1947) was originally based there.


Places of worship

St James' Church, a brick gothic
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designed by William Conrad Lochner, was consecrated in 1831 The first Anglican place of worship to be established in Enfield in addition to the parish church, St James' was built by subscription as a
chapel of ease A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church architecture, church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently, generally due to trav ...
on land given by Woodham Connop. It was consecrated on 15 October by the Bishop of London, Charles Blomfield. A district was assigned to the church on 9 December 1833. It comprised the whole of the parish of east of a line drawn at a distance of 150 yards to the west of the main road from Edmonton to Cheshunt. The church was licensed for marriages in 1845.


Open spaces

For King George's Field, ''see main article List of King George V Playing Fields (Greater London)'' Durants Park was created in 1903 from the estate of the former manor house called ''Durrants''. It was named after the family of Adam ''Durant'' from 1244. It later became the home of the Wroth and Stringer families. The gatehouse of the manor survived until 1910.


Wright's Almshouses

On the west side of the Hertford Road is a terraced row of six almshouses, with a stone tablet bearing the inscription: "These almshouses were erected and endowed by Mr. Charles Wright, of Enfield-highway, for the support of six poor widows, A.D. 1847." Wright built the almshouses a few years before his death in 1851, and by a deed of 1848 conveyed them to trustees, who were given the responsibility of choosing six poor widows, aged over sixty, with an income of no more £10 a year, and not receiving parochial relief, to occupy them. The widows were also to receive a sum of £10 annually, and one ton of coal each winter. The almshouses form a grade II
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.


Demography

In the 2011 census, White British was the largest ethnic group at 38%, followed by 18% Other White and 12% Black African.


Politics

Enfield Highway forms part of the Enfield North parliamentary constituency in the
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.


In popular culture

Some scenes in the
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TV movie Learners were filmed around Enfield Highway.


Transport and locale


Nearest places

* Enfield Wash *
Ponders End Ponders End is the southeasternmost part of Enfield, London, Enfield, North London, north London, England, around Hertford Road west of the Lee Navigation, River Lee Navigation. It became Industrial suburb, industrialised through the 19th centur ...
* Brimsdown


Nearest railway stations

* Southbury railway station * Brimsdown railway station


Buses

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routes 121, 191, 279, 307 and night route N279 serve Hertford Road, the main road of Enfield Highway.


Notes


References

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External links

A photograph of the gatehouse at Durants from the Victoria and Albert Museum https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O54060/photograph-national-photographic-record-and-survey/ {{LB Enfield Places in Enfield, London Areas of London Districts of the London Borough of Enfield