Edmonton

Edmonton is an area in the east of the London Borough of Enfield, England, United Kingdom with a long history as a settlement distinct from Enfield. The man-made River Lee Diversion adjoins the east of Edmonton and forms the boundaries between Enfield and

Edmonton is an area in the east of the London Borough of Enfield, England, United Kingdom with a long history as a settlement distinct from Enfield. The man-made River Lee Diversion adjoins the east of Edmonton and forms the boundaries between Enfield and Waltham Forest.

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Location

Edmonton is 8.6 miles (13.8km) north-north-east of Charing Cross and stretches from just south of the North Circular Road in the south to just past Edmonton Green in the north and from the Great Cambridge Road in the west to the River Lea in the east. The northern part of Edmonton (N9 postal district) is known as Lower Edmonton and the southern part (N18) as Upper Edmonton.

Edmonton today

Since the 1960s Edmonton has been transformed from a predominantly white, working class industrial suburb into a multicultural area by commonwealth immigration and in recent years asylum seekers.

In 2008 the Edmonton Green ward has been identified as having one of the highest numbers of working age adults living on state benefits in the UK.

In the first three months of 2008 five young men were murdered, most of them victims of knife crime. The area has become known as "Shank Town".

The Edmonton Green area is currently being redeveloped by St. Modwen Plc. The £100 million project will include new housing, bus station, clinic and refurbishment of the shopping centre.

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson visited Edmonton in November 2008 to release his Time For Action plan. He claimed his proposals would help stop young people becoming repeat offenders.

Infrastructure

Deephams Sewage Treatment Works is located near Picketts Lock
Edmonton Incinerator the largest incinerator in the UK
William Girling Reservoir is one of the reservoirs in the Lee Valley Reservoir Chain

Schools

Secondary

Edmonton County School
The Gladys Aylward School
The Latymer School
Turin Grove School and College

Primary

Brettenham,
Churchfield,
Cuckoo Hall,
Eldon Road (J),
Fleecefield,
Galliard,
Hazelbury (J),
Houndsfield,
Latymer All Saints CE,
Raynham,
St Edmunds,
St. John& St.James CE,
Starks Field, Wilbury

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Shopping

The main shopping centre in Edmonton is at Edmonton Green which has a popular market, the second largest is at the Angel, Edmonton which is a high street.

History

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 Adelmetone- 'a farmstead or estate of a man called Ēadhelm' from an Old English personal name and tūn.

Edmonton Hundred was a division of the historic county of Middlesex from Saxon times, an area of some 31,000 acres (125km2) stretching up the west bank of the Lea from Tottenham to the county boundary south of Waltham Cross, and west into what is now Hertfordshire as far as South Mimms. Local government in the modern sense began in 1837 with the Edmonton Union, set up under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. This also covered a wide district of 47,102 acres (191km2), including the modern boroughs of Haringey and Enfield, plus Cheshunt, Waltham Abbey and Waltham Cross. The population of this area grew rapidly, reaching 445,875 by 1911 and would today be about 615,000. As the population mushroomed Middlesex was subdivided into many small local government areas, a much smaller Edmonton of 3894 acres (16km2) eventually achieving the status of borough (main article Municipal Borough of Edmonton) in 1937. At the 1961 census the borough had a population of 91,956. This was absorbed into the London Borough of Enfield in 1965, and the former Town Hall and civic buildings were controversially demolished by Enfield Council in 1989.

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.

In the 17th century the then rural Edmonton had a reputation for supernatural activities. In approximately 1600, a play entitled The Merry Devil of Edmonton was performed in London about a wizard who lived there.

In 1621 the villagers accused an old woman, Elizabeth Sawyer, of witchcraft and she was subsequently executed at Tyburn; her story was told in a pamphlet by Henry Goodcole, and in a 1621 play entitled The Witch of Edmonton.

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.

John Keats, the poet, was apprenticed to surgeon Dr. Hammond in Church Street between 1810-1816. The house was demolished in 1931 to be replaced by Keats Parade. An extant shop carries a blue plaque in commemoration.

Edmonton was the home town of Sir James Winter Lake, director of the Hudson's Bay Company. The company's trading outpost named after Edmonton is now the capital of what is today the Canadian province of Alberta.

The Diverting History of John Gilpin

William Cowper, the 18th century poet relates the comic tale of John Gilpin a linen draper of Cheapside London, who was probably based on a Mr Beyer, a linen draper of the Cheapside corner of Paternoster Row.

Gilpin's spouse decides she and her husband should spend their twentieth wedding anniversary at The Bell Inn, Fore Street, Edmonton. The journey is beset with misfortune from start to finish. Gilpin loses control of his horse which carries him on to the town of Ware ten miles (16km) distant. On the return journey, Gilpin is still unable to handle his steed, as he once again he fails to stop at The Bell. The horse gallops back to Cheapside much to the dismay of his concerned spouse.

Gilpin is remembered in Edmonton by the statue at Fore Street. The Wetherspoons outlet the Gilpin's Bell public house opposite the site of the original inn and the 1950s council housing Gilpin House in Upper Fore Street.

Industry

Edmonton was home to many industries which included manufacturing of gas appliances, electrical components and furniture. Most of this has been lost in the latter part of the 20th century. Some of the household names that produced goods here include MK electric, Ever Ready batteries, British Oxygen, Glover and Main gas appliances. Eley Industrial Estate was named after Eley Brothers the firearms cartridge manufacturer. Its shot tower was a distinctive landmark on the Edmonton skyline, demolished late 20th century. Due to its close proximity to the River Lee Navigation, timber was transported by barge from the London docks and stored in riverside wharves. As a result many furniture makers including Nathans, Beautility and Homeworthy had factories here. Today Parker-Knoll products are manufactured at the former B&I Nathan factory on the Eley Industrial Estate. The skyline here is dominated by the 100 metre Edmonton Incinerator chimney which was built in 1971. Other major employers here include Coca Cola.

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.

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.

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.

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 trolley buses took over.

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Leisure and recreation

Edmonton Cricket Club. The cricket club was founded in 1872 and is located in Church Street. The ground is also home to the Norsemen football club. Edmonton Leisure Centre located at Edmonton Green opened in August 2007. Facilities include a swimming pool and sports hall. Lee Valley Leisure Complex located at Picketts Lock and is part of the Lee Valley Park Pymmes Brook Trail crosses Edmonton to join the Lea Valley Walk at Pickett's Lock on the River Lee Navigation. Angling is allowed upstream and downstream of Picketts Lock.Information from the Lee Anglers' Consortium. The River Lee Navigation's towpath forms part of National Cycle Route 1 and the Lea Valley Walk.

Theatre and the arts

Edmonton is the home of the Millfield Arts Centre and Face Front Inclusive Theatre Company.[40]

Nearest places

Tottenham to the south
Palmers Green to the west
Walthamstow to the east
Ponders End to the north
Winchmore Hill to the north

Railway stations

Angel Road railway station
Edmonton Green railway station
Silver Street railway station

Notable residents

The following people were born in or lived in Edmonton:

John Clayton Adams (landscape artist)
Gladys Aylward (Protestant missionary)
Percival Harry Barton (footballer)
John Beck (footballer)
Dudley Benjafield (racecar driver& alumni of the university of london)
Eddie Bovington (footballer)
Jack Burkett (footballer)
Albert Cadwell (footballer)
Robert Cecil (statesman)
Charles Coward (world war II hero)
Jimmy Dimmock (footballer)
David Evans (politician)
Ray Evans (footballer)
Wally Fielding (footballer)
Bruce Forsyth (entertainer)
Frederick Grace (boxer)
Bobby Graham (musician)
Brian Harvey (singer)
Chas Hodges (musician)
David Jason (actor)
John Keats (poet)
Jo Kuffour (footballer)
Charles Lamb (essayist)
Mary Lamb (writer)
Derek Lampe (footballer)
Ron Lewin (footballer)
Derek Lewis (footballer)
Jennifer Lynn (actress)
Tony Marchi (footballer)
Les Medley (footballer)
Dave Murray (musician)
Kevin Nugent (footballer)
Joe O'Cearuill (footballer)
Ömer Rıza (footballer)
Paul Rodgers (footballer)
Lee Smelt (footballer)
Mike Smith (Dave Clark Five) (musician)
Norman Smith (producer, musician)
Jim Standen (footballer)
Brook Taylor (mathematician)
Leslie Welch (radio and tv personality}
B.J. Wilson (rock drummer)

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Notable people educated in Edmonton

Kriss Akabusi, athlete
Basil Hoskins, actor
Kevan James, cricketer
Kelly Johnson, guitarist
Debbie Kurup, actress
Larry Lamb, actor
Daisy Ridgely, athlete
Roy Strong, historian
Norman Tebbit, politician
Ray Winstone, actor
Eileen Atkins, actress
Johnny Haynes, footballer
Bruce Forsyth, entertainer
Claire-Hope Ashitey, actress
Syed Kamall, Conservative MEP
Poj masta, DJ
Albert Meltzer, British Anarchist
Tim Pope, Film and Video director
B.J. Wilson, Original drummer with Procol Harum
Dave Murray Guitarist for Iron Maiden