Where to Stay in Enfield Town, England

What is Enfield Town known for?

The house belongs to a run of surviving properties, Myddelton House and Salisbury House among them, that mark Enfield out from the ordinary reaches of north London, while the Church of St Andrew, Enfield holds the old core. Whitewebbs Museum of Transport keeps the vehicles. Sport has its own addresses at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre and the Lincoln Road Ground.

What are the main landmarks in Enfield Town?

Houses carry the list. Forty Hall, Myddelton House, Salisbury House, Millfield House, Capel House and Burleigh House, Enfield all survive under their own names, along with Glenwood House and The Hermitage with its stable building. Silver Street keeps three of the oldest numbers.

Whitewebbs Museum of Transport stands well out from the rest.

What is the history of Enfield Town?

Enfield has no recorded founding year. What Enfield keeps instead is a long roll of surviving buildings, Forty Hall, Myddelton House, Salisbury House, Millfield House, Capel House and Burleigh House, Enfield among them, standing where the town spread outward through north London. The names outlast their fields.

Forty Hill, Bulls Cross, Botany Bay and Clay Hill still label parts of the town that read as farm and estate ground. The Hermitage and its stable building survive on the same terms. Churches date the parishes.

The Church of St Andrew, Enfield, the Church of St Mary Magdalene, St Michael & All Angels, Enfield and St Alphege's Church sit within the town, while All Saints' Church, Edmonton, St Paul's Church, Winchmore Hill and St John the Evangelist, Palmers Green stand in neighbouring parishes on the same north London ground. Christ Church United Reformed Church belongs to a later layer. One building has changed use outright: the former Church of St Michael now serves as Caroe Court.

St James' Church, Enfield Highway and the Church of St Aldhelm mark the outer parishes. Silver Street holds the oldest street numbers on the list.

Where is Enfield Town?

The town spreads wide. Enfield reaches from Hadley Wood and Clay Hill on one side to Ponders End, Brimsdown and Enfield Lock on the other, taking in Botany Bay, Crews Hill, Bulls Cross and Freezywater along the way, so the name covers far more ground than its centre. Charing Cross lies 10.1 miles away.

Grange Park, Bush Hill Park, Gordon Hill and Enfield Wash fill the space between.

What is the climate of Enfield Town?

Extremes stay away. Enfield sits in the temperate northern band that covers the whole of north London, which keeps the gap between the seasons narrow rather than severe. Indoor stops cover the rest.

Whitewebbs Museum of Transport, Forty Hall and the Church of St Andrew, Enfield hold up whatever the sky is doing, while the open ground at Clay Hill, Botany Bay and Hadley Wood repays the clearer days.

How do you get to Enfield Town?

Charing Cross is the reference point. Enfield lies 10.1 miles from it, which puts the town at the outer end of a London journey rather than a trip into the country, and the run out passes Bush Hill Park, Grange Park and Gordon Hill. Ponders End and Brimsdown lie beyond.

Enfield Lock, Enfield Wash and Freezywater carry the name further still, out toward Bullsmoor and World's End.