Enfield is London’s most northern borough.
Enfield was once a small market town but is now a residential area with a mainly elderly population. The town has good, fast links into Central London.
A short while ago Enfield town was redeveloped, this included new shops, another multi-storey car park and a new layout for the nearby roads.
The A10 road area houses retail facilities, a nightclub and a large multiplex cinema that attracts people from miles away. Rather unusually this Cineworld cinema is also home to Jubilee Church. On Sundays the church hires two auditoriums for its worshippers who travel miles to attend the services.
Property for rent is always available at average costs of £700pcm for a l bed flat, £1000pcm for a 2 bed house and £1100 for a 3 bed house.
The town is home to three of Middlesex University campuses, Ponders End, Cat Hill and Trent Park.
King George’s Field includes the Enfield Ignatius Rugby Club and the Queen Elizabeth II athletics stadium plus many football and rugby pitches and baseball diamonds. These playing fields used to house Italian Prisoners of War during World War II.
Enfield is served by the Piccadilly tube line and is close to the North Circular Road, M25 motorway and the A10 major road.
The town is known for a number of ‘firsts’: the world’s first solid state circuitry colour television was made at the Ferguson plant and the first dish washer to be mass produced was built in Hotpoint’s Enfield plant, both of these factories are now closed. Another first was Barclays Band in Enfield was the first place in the world to have an ATM.
Also to be found in Enfield is the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture. This houses 19th and 20th century textiles and includes the Crown Wallpaper archives. It holds several workshops throughout the year. It opens 10am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday and 2pm to 5pm on Sundays.
The Capel Manor is a specialist College of Horticulture, Floristry, Garden Design, Arboriculture, Countryside Studies and Animal Care. The gardens are in the grounds of a Georgian Manor House with Victorian Stables. There are thirty acres of themed gardens including Japanese and Italian plus a garden designed by Kim Wilde. A gift shop and restaurant and an animal enclose with pigs goats, rabbits and heavy horses are all in the grounds.
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