Where to Stay in Edmonton, England

What is Edmonton known for?

Lower Edmonton, also called Edmonton Green, takes the northern half and Upper Edmonton the southern, and the whole of it sits inside the London Borough of Enfield in north London. Bruce Castle is the landmark. The Markfield Beam Engine and Museum and the Lee Valley Athletics Centre give the other two reasons to make the trip out from Charing Cross.

What are the main landmarks in Edmonton?

Bruce Castle leads. The Markfield Beam Engine and Museum keeps the industrial exhibit, the Lee Valley Athletics Centre and Lincoln Road Ground cover the sport, and the Northumberland Development Project is the largest build on the list. After that come the churches.

All Saints' Church, Edmonton, St Ann's Church, St Edmund's Church, Church of St Mary the Virgin, St Alphege's Church, All Hallows' Church, Tottenham and St Benet Fink Church, Tottenham spread across the town and its neighbours. Broomfield House and 40 The Green complete it.

What is the history of Edmonton?

Edmonton was a parish long before the borough. All Saints' Church, Edmonton stands from that older settlement, and Church of St Mary the Virgin, St Ann's Church and St Edmund's Church record the dedications that followed as the place grew. Bruce Castle belongs to the same old ground.

The house stands toward Tottenham, on the southern boundary of the town, and Millfield House, Salisbury House and Broomfield House carry names from the period before the town was absorbed into London. Upper and Lower divided it. Industry left one machine.

The Markfield Beam Engine and Museum preserves a working relic of the town's industrial period, and it is the clearest trace of that era Edmonton still shows. London arrived and stayed. The London Borough of Enfield now administers Edmonton as part of Greater London, with Enfield to the north, Chingford to the east, Tottenham to the south and Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill to the west.

New congregations followed the arrivals. St Mary's Greek Orthodox Church and the New Testament Church of God Cathedral of Praise stand alongside the older parish dedications, and St Alphege's Church, St Paul's Church, Winchmore Hill and St John the Evangelist, Palmers Green fill out the map. The Northumberland Development Project came last.

Where is Edmonton?

Adjoining districts hem it in on all sides. Edmonton occupies part of north London inside the London Borough of Enfield, north-northeast of Charing Cross, bordered by Enfield, Chingford, Tottenham, Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill. The town divides north and south.

Greater London carries the built-up ground through both halves without a break, and Bruce Castle, Broomfield House and Millfield House are the older survivals inside it.

What is the climate of Edmonton?

London itself moderates it. Edmonton sits inside the built-up mass of Greater London in the temperate northern band, which keeps the year narrow and spares the town the extremes that open country further out collects. Rain is no obstacle here.

Bruce Castle and the Markfield Beam Engine and Museum both hold up on a bad day, and the Lee Valley Athletics Centre runs to its own schedule whatever the sky is doing.

How do you get to Edmonton?

Charing Cross fixes the distance. Edmonton lies north-northeast of it, out beyond the middle of the capital, which makes the journey an outbound one for almost everybody who makes it. The neighbours are the landmarks.

Enfield, Chingford, Tottenham, Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill all touch the town, and Bruce Castle, the Northumberland Development Project and the Lee Valley Athletics Centre all sit within that ring.