A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Enfield. You may be able to find further references to Enfield in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | ENFIELD | a small town, a parish, and a sub-district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Enfield.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Botany Bay | hamlet | Bartholomew | BOTANY-BAY | a hamlet | Imperial | Bulls Cross | village | Bartholomew | BULLS-CROSS | a village | Imperial | Clay Hill | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | ENFIELD CHASE and ENFIELD HIGHWAY | two hamlets | Imperial | Forty Hill | hamlet, and seat | Bartholomew | Palmer's Green | hamlet with railway station | Bartholomew | Ponders End | village with railway station | Bartholomew | PONDERS-END | a hamlet | Imperial | TRENT | a chapelry | Imperial |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Enfield within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
| Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | Thomas Pennant | Enfield to London | 6 | Thomas Pennant | St Albans to London | 4 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire | 3 | William Camden | Middlesex and London | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 2 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1697: Through Kent to Canterbury and Dover | 1 | John Wesley | 1740-2: Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield | 1 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
| Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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| Enfield Chase | 1 | 1 |
| Bush Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Winchmore Hill | 1 | 2 |
| Clay Hill | 0 | 1 |
| Ponders End | 0 | 2 |
| Lower Edmonton | 0 | 1 |
| Bulls Cross | 0 | 2 |
| Trent | 0 | 3 |
| Palmers Green | 0 | 2 |
| Southgate | 0 | 2 |
| Edmonton | 4 | 3 |
| Enfield Lock | 0 | 2 |
| Waltham Cross | 0 | 2 |
| East Barnet | 0 | 3 |
| Bounds Green | 0 | 1 |
| New Southgate | 0 | 2 |
| Chingford | 0 | 2 |
| Sewardstone | 0 | 2 |
| Tottenham | 6 | 3 |
| Friern Barnet | 1 | 3 |
