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  1. Photographs, recollections and descriptions of buildings in Edmonton, north London, early-mid 20th Century.

    • Then and Now Edmonton

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    • Old Rural Edmonton

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    The name of the manor of Edmonton appears as Delmetone or Adelmetone (Eadhelm’s Farm) in the Domesday Book of 1086. The manor was given by William the Conqueror to Geoffrey de Mandeville and was later purchased by Henry VIII. Edmonton Green lay on the main road north from London to Waltham Cross, between Fore Street to the south and Hertford Road t...

    1. This print of 1806 shows Edmonton Green with Salmons Brook flowing through the rural village on its way to join Pymmes Brook and then the River Lea. 2. This view of Edmonton Green in1904 shows the level crossing, signal and signal box on the 1849 railway line. Edmonton lower level station was to the left of the signal box. Beyond is the triangle...

    12. Just to the north of Edmonton Green is the Crescent 84-132 Hertford Road, built as a speculation by a London solicitor between 1826 and 1851, although the northern end was not completed. This terrace of brown brick houses with stucco covered ground floors, seen here in 2020, is listed Grade II for its group value and in 2008 was made a conserva...

  2. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Edmonton like this: Edmonton.-- town and par. (ry. sta. Lower Edmonton), Middlesex, on New River, 7½ miles N. of London, 7483 ac. (86 water), pop. 23,463; P.O., T.O., at Lower Edmonton, and P.O. at Upper Edmonton; has ...

  3. Edmonton is a town in north London, England within the London Borough of Enfield, a local government district of Greater London. The northern part of the town is known as Lower Edmonton or Edmonton Green, and the southern part as Upper Edmonton.

  4. The Edmonton (now Enfield) wider area around the early 20th Century, commentaries, 1894 map showing street names, housing, factories, railway line, canal and more.

  5. Edmonton, (fn. 1) noted for its witch and devil, for John Gilpin and its 18th-century fairs, lay about 7 miles from London on the main road to Ware and the north. Southgate, known for its elegant mansions and the cricketing Walker brothers, lay some 2¼ miles west of Edmonton village.

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  7. Edmonton, an ancient town and parish, and head of a petty sessional division, in Middlesex. The town is built along a slightly raised crest between the Lea river and the New river, on the road from London to Ware, between Tottenham and Enfield, the part nearest Tottenham being called Upper Edmonton, and the part nearest Enfield Lower Edmonton.

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