The volume relates the history of four parishes in Gore hundred and
of the five which form Edmonton hundred. The first group contains
Hendon, Kingsbury, and Little Stanmore, all bordering Edgware Road,
and Great Stanmore. A northward projection of Ossulstone hundred
separates it from the second, consisting of Edmonton, Enfield, and
Tottenham, along the Essex boundary following the river Lea, and of
South Mimms, finally transferred to Hertfordshire in 1965, and
Monken Hadley, transferred in 1889 but now part of Greater London.
In size the parishes range from Monken Hadley, with 695 a., to
Enfield, among the largest in England with more than 12,000 a.; the
most populous, Totten-ham with Wood Green, had well over 200,000
inhabitants by 1931. The story is of the rise of roadside
settle-ment, of the purchase of land by Lon-doners, of suburban
growth around railway stations and along new avenues, and, most
recently, of rebuilding. Today's residents include a large Jewish
community at Golders Green and coloured immigrants in working-class
Tottenham and Edmonton. The scene is mainly suburban, although
varying from the villas of late Victorian and Edwardian Southgate
to ferry-built terraces farther east, and from Hampstead Garden
Suburb to municipal housing estates and tower blocks. Many houses
in Enfield, Mill Hill, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, and Stanmore are
left from the genteel villages of 18th- and early- 19th-century
Middlesex. Park-land and farms survive in the north, notably in
South Mimms, where Wrotham and Dyrham parks stand in their grounds,
and around the former royal forest of Enfield Chase. Canons, the
area's most famous mansion, is recalled by the remnants of its
park, close to the church where the princely duke of Chandos lies
buried. Industry is confined mainly to the Lea valley, where the
Royal Small Arms factory produced the first Enfield rifle in the
1850s, and to sites near Edgware Road, where Hendon Aerodrome lay.
Other landmarks include the Alexandra Palace, whence the earliest
television service was relayed, Harringay Stadium and Arena, and
the White Hart Lane ground of Tottenham Hotspurs football club.
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