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TQ 96 40 The London/Waltham Forest/Essex boundary comes eastward and then turns due south while still on Chingford Plain. It crosses a path from Connaught Water turns east, then south, keeping to the edge of the forest Cuckoo Brook flows south west and reaches Connaught Water River Ching flows from Connaught Water in a southerly direction Post to the west Stewardstonebury Post to the south Buckhurst Hill Sites on the Essex side of the border. Epping Forest Epping Forest 1878-1978 Green Ride . This was cut through the Forest in preparation for its official dedication by Queen Victoria in 1882. She was driven along it in an open carriage to High Beech. This part of the Green Ride was an open trackway before the Ride proper was constructed. It was known as the Ridings, and may have been a dividing line in the woodland Magpie Hill . A name west of Connaught Water near the corner of Chingford Plain although there is no hill there. Maybe it means the rise of the land from the

TQ 39 96 The London/Waltham Forest/Essex boundary runs due east along the southern edge of Hawk Wood, crosses Bury Road and continues east on the same trajectory across the Forest. Cuckoo Brook flows south west towards  Connaught Water Post to the west Stewardstonebury Post to the east Epping Forest Post to the south Chingford Sites on the Essex side of the border Bury Road Retreat of old Hawkwood Farm. Used as a lodge for Head keeper and then retreat. All this land was farmland is now part of the forest. Gradual acquisition of the area. Used as a fun fair and tea room Bury Wood Large wood of tangled hornbeam and oak that stretches for almost half a mile. Dense hornbeam has made it suitable for pollarding trials. Woodman’s Glade. Longhorn cattle Cuckoo Brook. The Brook drains the West Essex golf course from Bury Road and from land to the north near the Owl Pub. In the Forest it passes under the three rides before joining the overflow from Connaught Water. It used to

TQ 38 96 The London/Waltham Forest./Essex boundary Goes east south of Yardley Hill, across the top of a stream and then curves slightly north west. It then turns abruptly south for a short distance and then north east to meet Yardley Lane. At the corner of Hawk Wood it turns south east along the edge of the wood and at the elbow bend goes east to cross the wood. It emerges, after a blip, going east on the southern boundary of Hawk Wood. Post to the west King George V Reservoir Post to the east Stewardstonebury Post to the south Chingford Sites on the Essex side of the boundary Bury Farm Livery stables Filter Beds Sites on the London/Waltham Forest side of the boundary Hawk Wood Marked as ‘Hawkwood’ on the Ordnance Survey map of 1883, named from ‘Chyngefordehal 1323, ‘Chyngford Hauke’ 1501 that is 'the nook or corner of Chingford’. The wood lies along the northern parish boundary of Chingford. Sewage works Centre Hawkwood School Yardley Lane Yardley Hill Hawkw

The London/ Enfield/Essex boundary goes south on an eccentric course (presumably the course of the original river) down the reservoir and joins the boundary of Waltham Forest. The London/Waltham Forest /Essex boundary Goes straight east-west across the reservoir. Post to the north Brimsdown Post to the east George V Post to the south Picketts Lock Post to the west Ponders End Sites on the London, Enfield, side of the boundary Alma Road Developed from 1855. Redeveloped by the council from the 1950s with tower blocks. The area had been part of an estate attached to Ponders End Mill. 173 Alma pub Tin tabernacle Alma Road Secondary School Pumping Station. In 1854 the local board opened a water works here. Conduit Lane Navigation Inn . This was the Ponders End Pumping Station for the Girling reservoir built by the East London Waterworks Co1899 and designed by W. S. Bryan. The Inn was created in 1995 from parts of the Pumping Station and an extra building in pastiche was adde

TQ 37 96 The London/ Enfield/Essex boundary goes south on an eccentric course (presumably the course of the original river) down the reservoir and joins the boundary of Waltham Forest. The London/Waltham Forest /Essex boundary Goes straight east-west across the reservoir with one blip and then turns north up the aqueduct. The London/Waltham Forest./Essex boundary goes south down the side of woodland at Yardley Hill and turns east, south of the southern border of the wood. Post to the west Ponders End Post to the east Stewardstonebury Post to the south Low Hall Chingford Sites on the Essex side of the border King George V Reservoir King George’s Sailing Club. Founded 1970s. To provide dinghy sailing and windsurfing in the north and east of London. Sites on the London, Waltham Forest, side of the border Drysdale Park Lea Valley Road Unexploded bomb 30 yards from Lea Bridge and Lea House also at ‘gun site 1250 battery RA KG reservoir Sewardstone Road Pitch and Put

TQ 37 97 The London/ Enfield/Essex boundary goes south on an eccentric course (presumably the course of the original river) down the reservoir The London/Waltham Forest./Essex boundary leaves the Aqueduct and goes east, crosses Sewardstone Road and goes down a path eastwards to the edge of woodland at Yardley Hill. The Lea Navigation and the Flood Relief Channel flow south Post to the north George V reservoir Post to the south George V reservoir Post to the west Brimsdown Sites on the London/Enfield side of the boundary Lea Navigation. Enfield Cut which follows the line of the earlier Enfield Millstream Thomas Yeoman 1770 Mardyke Went between the River Lee and the navigation before the reservoir was built. King George V reservoir, Embankment in the centre to prevent excessive wave action in high winds. Sites on the Essex side of the boundary Mill Lane Sewardstone Mill . Now under the reservoir. . Powder and Dye works. It was also a silk Mill, belonging to Carr

TQ 37 98 The London/ Enfield/Essex boundary goes south on an eccentric course (presumably the course of the original river) down the reservoir The Lea  Navigation and the Flood Relief Channel flow south Post to the north Enfield Lock Post to the south George V Reservoir Sites on the London, Enfield, side of the border Lea Navigation. Enfield Cut which follows the line of the earlier Enfield Millstream. Built Thomas Yeoman 1770 George V Reservoir Site of common marsh used for Pasturage by Chingford Commoners from to 1906. Cattle marked by Marsh Reeve. Grass cutting rights. Built by the East London Water Co. In 1898.. It is formed by a continuous embankment on the floodplain of the Lea. An mighty earth embankment divides it into two compartments connected by three large diameter culverts. The external grassed embankment consists of a central puddle clay core with shoulder filling comprising a mixture of river terraced gravels and alluvial deposits. opened in 1913, by the Me

The London/ Enfield/Essex boundary goes south on an eccentric course (presumably the course of the original river) parallel to Government Row and the aqueduct. The flood relief channel flows south. The Lea Navigation and the River Lea flow south and are met by the Turkey Brook from the west.  An eastward channel goes to the pumping station. Development area of housing on the site of the Ordnance factory, plus the older area of the lock and Government Row Post to the north Ramney Marsh Post to the west Enfield Lock Post to the south King George V Sites on the London, Enfield side of the border Aldridge Road Arnold Avenue Enfield Lock . Originally built in 1725, and rebuilt in 1768 and 1922, Offices. This was the centre of the management of the Lee Navigation and The Lee Conservancy offices were built here in 1907 on the western side of the river, below the lock. They remained as an office for British Waterways Enfield Lock Road School Government Row Terrace of cot

TQ 37 99 The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary goes east along the M25 with a dip south at the New River and return north. At the River Lea it meets the Essex boundary. The London/ Enfield/Essex boundary turns south taking a wiggley course to the east of the pumping station and then follows the River Lea. The Lee Navigation, the Small River Lee and the Flood Relief Channel all flow southwards. The Flood Relief Channel is met by the Black Ditch and Cobbins Brook both flowing from the west. Cobbins Brook flows westwards and joins the Flood Relief Channel The Black Ditch flows westwards and joins the Flood Relief Channel Post to the west Waltham Cross Post to the south Enfield Lock Post to the north Waltham Cross Post to the east Waltham Abbey Sites on the Essex side of the border Aqueduct Made up of Cattlegate Flood Relief Channel and Ramney Marsh Flood Relief Channel Cobbins Brook Said that Boadicea poisoned herself with hemlock gathered from the banks of Cobbin

TQ 00 36 GLC/Enfield boundary Goes on along the M25 The Small River Lee flows southwards The Lea Navigation and the River Lee flow southwards Post to the east Ramney Marsh Post to the north Waltham Cross Post to the south Enfield Lock Sites on the London, Enfield side of the boundary Caxton Court. Industrial warehouses Electric Way Freezywater Name of a local farm, which took its name from a pond, which has disappeared under the sewage works. Recorded as ‘Freezwater’ 1768, ‘Freezy Water’ 1819 so called from its bleak and exposed situation Innova Way Keys Meadows School . Primary school Oasis Academy Innova Business Park. On the site Ramney Marsh sludge works Kinetic Way Mandeville Park Road Mollison Avenue Painters Lane. Rammney Marsh Innova Business Park replaces the sludge disposal and dewatering works. Solar Way

The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary goes on along the M25 TQ 35 01 Post to the east Waltham Cross Post to the west Theobalds 34 01 Post to the north Cheshunt Sites on the Hertfordshire side of the border Cambridge Road Dual carriageway built in the 1930s and is now the A10.  It is the first area of derestricted speed when leaving London. Mainly on the line of Ermine Street it goes from London Bridge to Kings Lynn, New Cottages Oyler’s Farm one of the largest cultivated areas in the district. 18th farmhouse and a thatched refrigerator barn, an uncommon structure at least two hundred years old. Theobalds Park Farm . Historic farm site. Producing vegetables for London markets. Footpath , was known locally as the Twopenny Tube, connects Park Lane with Bullscross Ride. Printing works of News International. At the junction with Park Lane (Paradise). On the site of Orange Cafe which became a Little Chef Travelodge Hotel at the junction with Park Lane (Paradise) on the s

TQ 35 01 Post to the west Theobalds Manor 34 01 Post to the east Waltham Cross 36 01 Post to the north Bury Green Post to the south Bulls Cross The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary goes along the M25 A tributary stream to Theobalds Brook flows east and meets another tributary stream from the south Sites on the Hertfordshire side of the border Bull’s Cross Road Continuation of Green Lanes, Drove road into London from Islington is interrupted by the park, which it used to go north through between Bull’s Cross Road and Bury Green Road Bulls Cross Farm Western Cemetery Jewish Littlefield . Offices Moated site west of the A10 The Manor of Cullings. Cullings is the name of the original manor here which derives from Walter Cullings who was here in 1303 and in 1387 it passed to the Abbot of Waltham Holy Cross which they held until the dissolution. By 1552, in the reign of Edward VI, Cullings was held by Henry and Alice Beecher, and in 1573 by Sir William Cecil, Lord Bu

The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary goes east west from a stream on the south side of the M25.it continues along the south side of the Motorway with a slight blip to the south. It then crosses it and goes along the north side with a slight blip at a point at which it is joined by a channel. It continues on the south side of a wood alongside the motorway A tributary arm of Theobald's Brook rises in this area and flows eastwards A stream flows south east towards Turkey Brook Post to the west - White Webbs - 33 01 Post to the east Theobalds 35 01 Post to the north Broadfield Farm Post to the south Whitewebbs Sites on the Hertfordshire side of the border Old Park Ride Gunsite Farm - Theobalds Stud. Gunsite Stud is a new stable building in a fold of the southern slopes, finished with white rendered walls and terracotta roof tiles. South Osiers Theobalds Manor .  A red brick Queen Anne style house adjacent to the stud buildings. There was a small settlement here c

The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary Goes east. It crosses the Sloeman’s Farm track at the elbow bend and continues to touch the M25 at the point at which it meets a track and a stream A stream rises in this area and flows south east TQ 33 01 Post to the west Crews Hill 32 01 Post to the east 34 01 Theobalds Manor Post to the north Woodgreen Farm Post to the south Whitewebbs Park Sites on the Hertfordshire side of the border Cinder Ash Home Plantation Sites on the London, Enfield, side of the border Whitewebbs Road Sloeman’s Cottage Whitewebbs Farm .listed and with a listed barn.

The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary goes east along a road to Williams Farm and crosses Burnt Farm Ride and some woodland. Post to the west Crews Hill Post to the east White Webbs Post to the north Crews Hill Post to the south Whitewebbs Sites on the London, Enfield, side of the boundary TL 3152100046 Area of garden centres and nurseries together with older buildings, once farms Burnt Farm Ride Glasgow Stud 17th century, HQ of British Bloodstock Agency, farmhouse staircase. Farmhouse c17, Staircase with strapwork balusters; first-floor stone fireplace with carved artisan Mannerist detail. listed Crews Hill Paddocks Crews Hill Piggeries Stud Cottages Sanders Corner Williams Farm Cattlegate Road Glasshouses. To the east of Crews Hill station, north and south of Cattlegate Road, is an area of glasshouses of the kind formerly ubiquitous in the Lea Valley. Cuffley Brook Tilekiln Osiers Sources British Bloodstock Agency. Web site Pevsner and Cherry. Hertfordshire

The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary crosses the northern edge of Cattlegate Farm, going south east. It continues on the same line to cross the M25 and the railway line and cross the path to Williams’ Farm. Turkey Brook Turkey Brook rises in this area and flows south TQ 3088999756 Area of garden centres and nurseries round Crews Hill Station in the area once part of Enfield Chase. Post to the north Cattlegate Post to the west Cattlegate Post to the east Glasgow Stud Post to the south East Lodge Sites on the London, Enfield side of the border Cattlegate Road Cattlegate – ‘Cathalgate’, ‘Le Chathalegate’ 1441, ‘Cattle Gate’ 1605,’Cathellgate’ 1636, named from ‘Cafhale’ c.1220, that is ‘nook or comer of land frequented by wildcats', from Old English ‘catt’ and ‘halh’ with the later addition of Middle English gate with reference to the northern entrance to Enfield Chase. Glasshouses were once ubiquitous in the Lea Valley. Was Cathals Road, renamed when it became a

GLC/Enfield boundary having come from Cattlegate Lane begins to curve south east towards the farm Cuffley Brook Cuffley Brook flows southwards and is joined by the Northaw Brook from the west. The Northaw Brook has itself been joined by the Henpshill Brook from the west. TL 3035201593 Countryside area south of Cuffley with woodland and the main railway line Post to the west Cattlegate Post to the south Crews Hill Post to the north Cuffley Post to the east Crews Hill Sites on the Hertfordshire side of the boundary Chain Walk Hempshill Brook Northaw Brook Nursery Plantation Railway Line This crosses the Northaw Brook on the Sopers Farm Viaduct with 11 arches. It dates from 1909. Sources GLIAS Newsletter

GLC/Enfield boundary. Goes on down Cooperslane Road and then crosses Cattlegate Road. It then begins to curve south east TL 2853101862 Countryside area with big houses and scattered farms Post to the south Cattlegate  Post to the east Cattlegate  Post to the north Cuffley Post to the west Barvin Park Sides on the Hertfordshire of the boundary Cattlegate Lane Cattlegate Cottages Prospect Cottages Coles Hill Coopers Lane Road Barvin Park . Big house latterly owned by the Order of St.John of God.  Decided in 1911 to set up “a colony in England for Catholic male adult mental defectives and epileptics,” and the Irish-English Delegation took possession of Barvin Park in Hertfordshire at the request of the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Francis Bourne. Cardinal Bourne officially opened the centre on 1st October 1931.eventully closed in the 1990s. The site is now housing Cattlegate Wood Robin Hill Woodhurst Farm Northaw Brook Northaw Road West Park Farm . Equ

The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary continues to follow Cooperslane Road TL 2853101862 Countryside area with scattered farms Post to the west Barvin Park Post to the north Cattlegate  Post to the east Crews Hill  Sites on the London, Enfield, side of the border Barvin Hill The ridge dips here Cattlegate Road Olive Cottage Coopers Lane Road Holly Hill Farm .  Outdoor sports and riding centre South Hill Turkey Brook Sources

The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary continues to follow Cooperslane Road. Entrance to a private housing estate, replacing a school, on an isolated country road east of Potters Bar surrounded by fields and woods - the M25 runs east:west to the south. Barvin Park was the name of the big house where the school operated. TL 28769 00926 Post to the west Potters Bar  Post to the east Cattlegate  Post to the north Barvin Park Cooperslane Road St.Raphael School Lodge. This appears to have gone Hooke Hill

The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary goes due north on the east side of the school and youth centre. When it reaches CoopersLane Road it turns east to follow it. Northaw Brook Northaw Brook flows eastwards  and it met by tributaries from north, south and north east TQ 28 02 Post to the south Potters Bar 28 01 Post to the north Northaw Post to the east Barvin Park Sites on the Hertfordshire side of the border Fir Wood Hook Lane Hook Cottages The Hook kennels . Owned by the Greyhound Racing Association Oshwal Centre . Jain temple. £3.6m to build from pink sandstone and marble. stone was carved by craftsmen in India.Swimming Pool The Hook Big house built 1838 and containing an important old staircase from Gubbins House.Army Dogs training school in the Second World War. Hook Wood Fish Pond. Hook Lake run by a carp syndicate Sites on the London, Enfield side of the border Coopers Lane Road Five Acre Wood Many sinuous hornbeam trees. They were harvested for ch

The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary continues due north crossing The Ridgeway, the M25 and going down the east side of Foxhole Hill to Moses Hill. , and the east end of Coningsby Drive, Honeywood and Featherstone Close. The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary comes south east following Cooperslane Road. Post to the east Barvin Park 30 01 Post to the north Potters Bar 28 02 Post to the south Plumridge Hill Post to the west Potters Bar interchange Sites on the London, Enfield side of the boundary Foxhole Hill Pond Wood. Managed by the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust Meadow –at the southern end is an ancient meadow with woodland on three sides and Turkey Brook on the fourth. It is grazed by Shetland sheep to stop the scrub encroaching. It is rich in butterflies, grasshoppers and there are large numbers of old ant hills. lake - at the southern end colonised by common reedmace and gipsywort. It supports large numbers of dragonflies including the ruddy dar

The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary Goes north east from Long Hill to cross Southgate Road Countryside area on the edge of Enfield Post to the south Hadley Wood Post to the east Plumridge Hill Post to the west Ganwick Corner Post to the north Potters Bar interchange Enfield Chase Royal hunting forest. George II sold it and 1777 act of enclosure parcelled it off. Sites on the Hertfordshire side of the border Fir Wood Managed by Hertfordshire and Middlesex TNC, Woodland with woodpeckers Hornbeam Hills. Geometric field patterns and pylons Chase Cottage Farm Chase Wood Southgate Road Stagg Hill Fenny Slade Hill. Wildlife site Chase Farm Sources Essex Lopresti, The New River London Borough of Enfield. Web site Pam. History of Enfield Pevsner and Cherry. North London

TQ 26 99 The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary goes north east to Wagon Road and turns east along it. At Long Hill it turns north east Monken Mead Brook flows eastwards to Pymmes Brook. It is joined by a tributary from Bartram's Quash to the north Post to the west Hadley Wood Post to the north Enfield Chase Post to the east West Lodge Post to the south Hadley Wood Sites on the London, Enfield side of the boundary Bartram’s Lane Hadley Wood Station . 1885 Between Potters Bar and New Barnet on Great Northern Railway. Received additional platforms at the time of the widening, and its building at track level assumed a rather austere late 1950s appearance. The booking office of much older origin, spanned the original two tracks, and was the last surviving link with the old station, lasting almost until electrification. 1974 the modest rebuilt waiting shelters on the down island had already been replaced 10m 46ch from Kings Cross. In 1885 Charles Jack, local landowner s

TQ 25 99 The London/ Barnet/Hertfordshire border goes from Monken Hadley Primary school grounds north east to curve and meet the line of Monken Mead Brook, at the end of which it meets the Enfield Boundary. The London/ Enfield/Hertfordshire boundary goes north east to cross over the end of Bartram's Quash Monken Mead Brook flows north east towards Pymmes Brook. It is joined by small tributaries form the north and east Post to the south Monken Hadley Post to the east Hadley Wood Post to the west Kitts End Post to the north Ganwick Corner Sites on the Hertfordshire side of the boundary Bartram's Quash. Monken Mead Brook Deadman’s Bottom. Said to be where the dead were buried from the Battle of Barnet Wagon Road Ganwick Farm Cockshot Hill

TQ 25 98 The London/ Barnet/Hertfordshire border going southeast crosses Monken Mead Brook and goes to the edge of a wood. It then turns north east up the western edge of the wood and continues back to Monken Mead Brook. Monken Mead Brook flows north east towards Pymmes Brook Green Brook rises from a number of sources in this area and flows towards Monken Mead Brook Post to the north Hadley Wood Post to the west Hadley Green Post to the east Hadley Wood Sites on the London, Barnet side of the boudary Camlet Way Lined with affluent 20th houses in every style except modern. Among them a few earlier buildings: The road name is also that of a Roman road running south west from St.Albans 83-89 1878, a picturesque group of ‘Old English' estate cottages which served a mansion called Broadgates; steep gables and decorative tile-hanging. St.Paul. small church built in 1922 and designed by A. E. Kingswell. Church Hall St Martha’s Convent school. Was Mount House which had b

The London/ Barnet/Hertfordshire border goes a short way north up Kitts End Road and then crosses it and Great North Road, goes slightly south and then due east. A tributary to the Mymshall Brook flows north westwards TQ 24 99 Post to the south Hadley Green Post to the east Hadley Wood Post to the west Knightsland Sites on the Hertfordshire side of the border Great North Road The Great North Road, straight ahead has, it is true, the look of a mail coach road: wide, paved surface flanked with boundary ditches and green selvedges, lined with great oaks. Wrotham Park Home farm was set up in the mid-19th century, at around the same time as the model farm at Windsor established by Prince Albert. Steam engine - Grasshopper engine, built by Easton & Amos of The Grove, Southwark, supplied in the 1850s. The engine operated a sawmill, threshing and other farm machinery in adjacent barns and workshops through a system of belt driven shafts, some of which survive. It also appe

TQ 24 98 The London/ Barnet/Hertfordshire border going north east crosses St.Albans Road and a path and goes north round the golf club house to Taylors Lane where it turns north, east again, north again The London/ Barnet/Hertfordshire border runs east from Great North Road and then turns south and then south east towards Monken Mead Brook. Monken Mead Brook rises in this area flowing north east towards Pymmes Brook A tributary to Mymshall Brook rises in this area and flows northwards Post to the north Kitts End Post to the east Monken Hadley Post to the west Barnet Sites on the London, Barnet, side of the border Christchurch Lane Water and Gas Pressure Tower for the East Barnet Water Company. Locally Listed. Now housing. Dury Road 1 early 18th plum brick; Grade II listed Old tiled roof. Tiled lean-to porch. 2, Locally Listed White-rendered, Regency style house with sash-windows, decorative moulding and a carved doorcase. 3 Grade II Probably 18th . Small, timber fr