Enfield was anciently called Infen or Enfen, from the fens with which it abounded. In Doomsday Book it is called Enfelde.

A weekly market, to be holden at Enfield on Mondays, was granted by Edward I. to Humphrey de Bohun, and his wife (Elizabeth Countess of Holland, the king’s daughter), and two annual fairs, one on, St. Andrew's day, the vigil; and the day following; the other for three clays also at the assumption of the Virgin Mary. James I. granted a weekly market at Enfield on Saturdays; the profits of which were to be appropriated to the poor of the town. — The markets have been discontinued many years. Two fairs are still held, on the days inserted in our list.

Enfield was formerly noted for tanning of hides. The parish is very extensive; the town itself being but a very small part of what is generally denominated Enfield. Baker’s Street, Four tree Hill, Bull’s Cross, Ponders End, Enfield Highway, Enfield Chace, &c. being parts thereof. The soil for the most part is a strong loam, and supposed to be as fine wheat, land as any in the kingdom. The circuit of the parish, is about 30 miles. It contains about 6, 430 acres of land, exclusive of the Chace.

The Church is an ancient structure, consisting of a nave, chancel, and two aisles, separated by clustered columns and pointed arches. The windows are of the architecture which prevailed during the fourteenth and till the middle of the fifteenth century. There are a great many monuments, some of them curious and interesting. On the tomb of Ann, daughter of Richard Guy, Esq. of Bushmead, in the county of Bedford, is a brass plate inscribed with the following epitaph:

"Here lies interr’d,

One that scarce err’d

A virgin, modest, free from folly;

A virgin, knowing, patient, holy;

A virgin, blest with beauty here,

A virgin, crown’d with glory there.

Holy virgins, read, and say

We shall hither all one day,

Live well, —ye must

Be turn’d to dust. "

Enfield Chase is mentioned by that name in a record of the reign of Edward II. before which time it was generally called the Great Park. The chase having been seized as crown land after the death of Charles I. it was divided into parcels, and sold to various purchasers. After the Restoration it was laid open again: woods and groves were replanted, and the whole chase stored with deer. But by an act of parliament in 1777, it was disforested. Part of it was allotted to different parishes, and enclosed, when it was found to contain 8349 acres, and another part reserved to the crown, was afterwards sold in eight lots at the office of the dutchy of Lancaster.

Upon the chase are three lodges, distinguished by the names of the East Bailey, the West Bailey, and the South Bailey.

"In April 1557 the Princess Elizabeth was escorted from Hatfield to Enfield Chase, by a retinue of twelve ladies, in white satin, on ambling palfries, and 20 yeomen in green, all on horseback, that her grace might hunt the hart. On entering the chase she was met by fifty archers in scarlet boots, and yellow caps, armed with gilded bows, each of whom presented her with a silver-headed arrow, winged with peacocks feathers. By way of closing the sport, the princess was gratified with the privilege of cutting the throat of a buck."— Norden.

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ENFIELD is a large and scattered parish and ancient town 10 miles north-east from London and 2 ½ north-west from Edmonton, with terminal stations on branch lines of the Great Eastern and Great Northern railways, and is in the Enfield division of the county, Edmonton hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court district, within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court and of the Metropolitan police, and in the rural deanery of Enfield, archdeaconry of Middlesex and diocese of London.

The Salmons brook, a feeder of the river Lee, flows through the western part of the parish, and the Stort Navigation and the river Lee form the eastern boundary of the parish and separate it from Essex.

The parish, which is about 6 ½ miles in length from east to west, from an early period comprised four divisions, viz.:-The Town division, Green Street division, Bull's Cross division and Chase division, the first three of which having separate churchwardens and overseers, and each division forming a separate locality.

The Town division in the centre consists of Enfield proper, including the Market Place, Silver Street, Baker Street, Bush Hill Park, Church Street, London Road, Clay Hill, Brigadier Hill and part of Chase Side, and has two terminal stations, mentioned above, with another on the Great Eastern railway at Bush Hill Park. Green Street division, south-east, consists of Ponder’s End-a large district with a railway station, Green Street and Enfield Highway, with Brimsdown station on the Great Eastern railway and Churchbury station on the branch of this line to Cheshunt. Bull’s Cross division, on the north-east, consists of Forty Hill, Bull’s Cross, Bull’s Moor Lane, Freezy Water, White Webbs, Cattlegate, Enfield Lock, Enfield Wash and Turkey Street, with a station at Enfield Lock on the Great Eastern railway and Forty Hill station, Turkey Street, on the Cheshunt branch. Chase division comprises the west of the parish, and consists of Cock Forsters, Bycullah Park, Botany Bay, the Chase and the remainder of Chase Side; the Enfield (Great Northern) station serves the eastern and northern portions of this district; Potter’s Bar station on the Great Northern main line, is used for the north-west portion; Hadley Wood, on the same line, for the western extremity; and Southgate and New Barnet stations for the south-western limits.

A Local Board of Health of 12 members, under the provisions of the “Public Health Act, 1848” (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63), was established here June 21, 1850, but the parish is now under the control of an Urban District Council, constituted under the Act of 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), and the district divided under an Order of the County Council, dated June 28, 1894, into four wards respectively the Town ward, Chase and Bull’s Cross ward, Ordnance ward and the Green Street and Ponder’s End ward. The district is lighted with gas by a company from works in the Sydney road and at Ponder’s End, and supplied with water by the Urban Council from their works at Ponder’s End and Bycullah.

Enfield is called in Domesday Book “Enefelde” and “Endfield,” taking its name, as some say, from being the last parcel of land on the north side of Middlesex, but the names are probably with more accuracy derived from the Saxon, referring to the cleared district of forest land, the manor at the time of the survey being the property of Geoffrey de Mandeville; it was afterwards vested in the Crown on the marriage of Henry IV. with the heir of the de Bohuns. Richard II. granted the inhabitants an exemption from tolls and various privileges in all fairs and markets within England and Wales, out of the liberties of the Duchy of Lancaster; and these grants were confirmed and extended by charters of Henry IV. and VI. Edward IV. Queen Elizabeth, James I. George II. and III. the originals of which are preserved at the Public Record Office. The New River enters the parish at Bull’s Cross on the north, and after a tortuous course leaves it at Bush Hill on the south.

Enfield has conferred the title of baron on the Nassaus, Earls of Rochford, and now confers that of viscount on the Byng family, Earls of Strafford.

The parish church of St. Andrew, in the Town division is an embattled building of stone in the Perpendicular style, with the exception of the tower and chancel, which are Early English, and consists of chancel, with north aisle and vestry, nave of five bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 8 bells: the vestry is supposed to have been originally a chantry, erected in 1471, during the reign of Edward IV. by Robert Blossom and Agnes his wife: the church contains some fine old monuments, the oldest of which is an altar tomb to Joyce (de Cherleton), wife of Sir John de Tiptoft of Tibetot kt. who died in 1446: the upper slab, of grey Purbeck marble, is adorned with a brass, representing her in an heraldic mantle, with shield of arms: the margin is surrounded with an inscribed fillet of brass, and above the tomb rises a canopy of later date, believed to have been erected by Thomas, first Earl of Rutland (1513—43), in memory of his maternal ancestor, Edmund Lord Roos or de Ros, who died 13 Oct. 1508: this tomb has been restored by the Duke of Rutland K.G.: there is also a brass to William Smith, ob. 24 Sept. 1592, Joan, his wife, and six children: in the north chancel aisle is a monument to Sir Nicholas Raynton kt. ob. 1646, his wife, ob. 1640, and children, with effigies, that of Sir Nicholas being in robes as Lord Mayor: on the wall of the south aisle is a memorial to Dorothy Middlemore, ob. 20 May, 1610: there is also a tablet to John Abernethy M.D. the famous but eccentric physician and surgeon, who died at Enfield, 20 April, 1831: at the east end of the south aisle is a marble bust in memory of Col. Stringer, d. 1706: in the chancel is a monument, by Nicholas Stone, to Martha Palmer, ob. 1617, and in the north aisle a memorial window to the late Philip Twells M.P. of Chase Side House, d. 1880: the chancel retains an ancient hagioscope: the sedilia and piscina were discovered and restored in 1852 and the church was restored and new roofed in 1866: there are 1,000 sittings, of which 350 are free. The register dates from the year 1550. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £464, including 600 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Trinity College, Cambridge, and held since 1870 by the Rev. George Hewitt Hudson M.A. formerly fellow of that college, Prebendary of St. Paul’s and Rural Dean of Enfield.

St. Michael’s church, Chase Side, built in 1874 as a chapel of ease to the parish church, on a site given by George Batters esq. of Brigadier Hill, is an edifice of Kentish rag with Bath stone dressings, in the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays and aisles: there are 400 sittings.

St. Mark’s church, Bush Hill park, built in 1893 as a chapel of ease to the parish church, is of brick in the Gothic style, and consists of nave, aisles, vestry, organ chamber and a turret with one bell.

St. John the Baptist’s is an ecclesiastical parish formed March 22, 1867, out of St. Andrew’s and Jesus parishes; the church, at Clay Hill, erected in 1857, is an edifice of brick with stone dressings, in the Early English style, from designs by Mr. J. P. St. Aubyn, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing 2 bells; all the windows are stained and there are 280 sittings, besides a gallery for 50 children. The register dates from the year 1865. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £158, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Enfield, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Vincent Travers Macy M.A. of Oxford University.

St. Luke’s, Acacia road, a district church in connection with St. John the Baptist’s, is of iron, and will seat about 200.

The Clay Hill Church Institute, situated in Morley hill, and erected in 1896 at a cost of £2,000, comprises a hall, seating about 400 persons, and a working men’s club, library and coffee tavern.

Jesus ecclesiastical district was formed Dec. 26, 1845; the church, at Forty Hill, in Bull’s Cross division, erected in 1835, at the sole expense of Christian Paul Meyer esq. of Forty Hall, and endowed by him with £4,000, is a building of white brick in the Early English style, and consists of nave, aisles, south and west porches, and four turrets, with a clock and 1 bell; the stained east window is a memorial to the founder; the west window was erected to the memory of the late vicar, Dr. Weir, who died in June, 1874, and there are several others: there are 400 sittings, of which 75 are free. The register dates from the year 1836. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £166, including 13 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Enfield, and held since 1874 by the Rev. Edward Wood Kempe M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and priest in ordinary to the Queen.

St. James’, Enfield Highway, in Green Street division, was formed into an ecclesiastical parish July 22, 1834; the church, built in 1831, on a site given by Woodham Connop esq. is an edifice of brick and stone in the Early English style, and consists of chancel with aisles, nave, western porch, vestry, and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and one bell: the chancel was added in 1864 by the Rev. John Harman, vicar (1854—80), at his sole expense, and the porch and vestry in 1885; all the windows are stained, chiefly as memorials to the Harman family, by whom a brass lectern has been presented: there is a handsome chancel screen and reredos: there are 700 sittings, of which 350 are free. The register dates from the year 1834. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £300, with residence and 4 acres of glebe, in the gift of the vicar of St. Andrew’s, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Joseph Leonard Boulden M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, and chaplain to the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield Lock.

Enfield Lock Parish Hall, in Ordnance road, is an iron building erected in 1897 by public subscription, at a cost of £900, and will hold 500 persons.

St. Mary Magdalene’s is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1884. The church, at Ridgeway in the Chase (western) division, built in 1883, was erected at the sole expense of Mrs. Twells, widow of Philip Twells esq. M.P. for the city of London, at a cost of £30,000, including parsonage and endowment; and is an edifice of stone, in the Early Decorated style, from designs by Mr. W. Butterfield, architect, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transepts, south porch and a western tower, with spire, containing 8 bells: the chancel has been redecorated at a cost of £500, by Mrs. Philip Twells: there are 470 sittings, half of which are free. The register dates from the year 1883. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £350, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. Twells, and held since 1885 by the Rev. George Passand Turner B.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

The Church Room was erected in 1898, at a cost of £1,700, chiefly borne by Mrs. Twells, of Chase Side House.

Enfield Wash St. George’s, is a new ecclesiastical district, with an iron church erected on a site given by the vicar of Enfield, and holding 500 persons. The Rev. Bryant Wonnacott, of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, has been curate in charge since 1896.

Here are Catholic, Congregational, Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and Baptist chapels.

The cemetery at Brigadier Hill, 1 ½ miles from Enfield Town, opened July 27, 1872, at a cost of about £9,000, and covering an area of about 12 acres, is pleasantly situated on a gentle slope of the hill side, looking towards Clay hill; it was enlarged in 1897 by an additional 3 acres, and has two mortuary chapels, and is under the control of a burial board of 9 members.

The cross in the Market place, built by subscription in 1826 and restored in 1866, is a structure of brick, covered with cement, in a poor style of Gothic, and about 30 feet in height, and stands on an octagonal stepped base; at the sides are inscriptions recording the dates of various charters by which the market was granted. A fair is held on the 30th November, chiefly for cattle.

A granite drinking fountain was erected in the town by subscription in 1884.

The Royal Small Arms factory, at the eastern extremity of the parish, was erected in 1855—6, at a cost of £150,000, and has a station (Enfield Lock) on the Great Eastern line, about ¼ of a mile west. The factory is open to visitors every Monday and Thursday from 9 to 12 and from 2 to 4; the principal buildings, forming three sides of a quadrangle, are built of brick, but the buildings generally cover an area of about 40 acres, including the testing ranges: the new magazine rifle is now made instead of the Martini-Henry, and machine guns and swords are also manufactured here; about 4.000 rifles can be turned out weekly.

The “Public Libraries Act, 1855” (18 & 19 Vict. c. 70) was adopted here in March 1892; the library (lending only), at the Court House, Enfield Town, contains about 7.000 volumes, and there are branches at Ponder’s End and Enfield Wash.

St. Joseph’s Home, for Destitute Catholic boys, contains beds for one hundred and fifty children under the age of twelve, under the care of the Sisters of Charity.

Charities.-A Cottage Hospital, supported by voluntary contributions, was established here in 1875, and has nine beds: there is also a Philanthropic Institution and a Lying-in Charity; Wright’s almshouses, in Enfield Highway, are for six poor women, each of whom receives £10 a year and coals; Mrs. Ann Crow’s almshouses, in Turkey street, are for four poor women, each of whom receives two tons of coal yearly; the Enfield Parochial charities, comprising Prounce’s, left in 1516, and consisting of £10 a year each for six aged women; Wilson’s, left in 1590, and consisting of £34 a year each for six poor men; David’s, left in 1620 and consisting of £10 4s. a year each for four aged women; Osborne’s, left in 1659, and consisting of £10 a year each for poor widows; and King James the First’s, left in 1622—3, of £10 a year each for five aged women, with others, are governed by a scheme of the Charity Commissioners dated 2 March, 1888; the governing body consists of the vicar, churchwardens, five cooptative and six representative trustees; the income, amounting to over £600 yearly, is devoted to various charitable objects, principally annuities to poor persons; Eaton and Myers’ charity, left in 1806, is for six persons.

Close to Enfield Lock station is Enfield Wash, a busy district: here was the house of Mother Wells, the notorious gipsy, where, in 1753, Elizabeth Canning, a servant girl of 18, was, according to her own account, shut up for a month; her remarkable story was the great subject of controversy for months, dividing society into two parties called “Egyptians” and “Canningites,” and giving rise to a large amount of pamphleteering; Canning was, however, eventually convicted of perjury and subsequently emigrated to America, where she married a wealthy planter, and died in 1773.

Charles Lamb long resided at Chase Side: Isaac D’Israeli D.C.L. father of the Earl of Beaconsfield, was born at Enfield, May 1766, and lived there till his marriage; Charles Babbage F.R.S. the mathematician, and Capt. Frederick Marryatt R.N. the novelist, were educated at Ponder’s End: at South Lodge lived William Pitt, first Earl of Chatham, and at East Lodge Alexander (Wedderburn), first Earl of Rosslyn and Lord Chancellor; John Keats, the poet, was at a private school here till the age of 15, leaving it in 1810 to be apprenticed to Mr. Hammond, a surgeon of Edmonton.

Considerable remains exist of Enfield House, a mansion of red brick with stone dressings, situated immediately opposite the parish church, but shut in by shops; it originally surrounded three sides of a square, but the greater part was demolished towards the end of last century, portions having previously been removed to Theobalds: here the children of Henry VIII. were brought up: Elizabeth was residing here at the time of Henry VIII.’s death, and visited Enfield several times after her accession; one of the rooms is wainscoted with fine English oak panelling, and has a ceiling enriched with royal and national emblems; the stone mantelpiece is supported by columns of the Doric and Ionic orders, and is adorned with foliage and birds, and above are the arms of England and France, with supporters, excellently carved, and still in good preservation; the monogram of Edward VI. also appears: several of the ceilings in the upper rooms are also decorated: in the grounds is a magnificent cedar tree, said to have been planted by Dr. Robert Uvedale, master of the Grammar School here, in 1670; the house was leased by Queen Elizabeth to a private gentleman in 1582, and from 1600 to 1623 seems to have been held by Lord William Howard: Charles I. alienated it the new holders, and in 1660 it was let to Dr. Uvedale; it has now been for many years used as a school, and here were educated Sir William de Grey kt. afterwards Baron Walsingham, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1771—80; d. 9th May, 1781; Lord Bramwell, Lord Justice of Appeal, and his brother, Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell kt. F.R.S. civil engineer.

Enfield Court, in Baker Street, the residence of Col. Alfred Plantagenet Frederick Charles Somerset C.B., D.L., J.P. is a mansion dating from the latter part of the 17th century, but has been altered at various periods, the south wing having been rebuilt in 1864; it still, however, contains some quaint specimens of brickwork, and has a fine terraced garden with clipped yews and a walk of 400 feet in length; at the bottom of the garden is a picturesque summer-house of two storeys, and there is also a fish pond, crossed by a bridge: the grounds extend over 80 acres.

Colonel Somerset is master of the Enfield Chase Stag Hounds.

White Webbs Park, on the borders of Herts, the property of Mrs. Wilkinson, but at present (1898) unoccupied, is associated with the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, the ancient mansion having been hired by the conspirators, as appears from deeds and state papers, as a rendezvous: the mansion is situated in a beautiful and well-wooded park of 300 acres, which still retains traces of the ancient chase.

Forty Hall, at Forty Hill, the residence of Major H. Ferryman Bowles M.P., J.P. is a rectangular mansion of brick, erected in the 17th century by Sir Nicholas Raynton kt. from the designs of Inigo Jones; it has some finely clustered chimney stacks and spacious apartments enriched with panelling, and containing a collection of pictures by the old masters and a portrait of Sir N. Raynton in civic robes: the house stands in a park of about 300 acres, still retaining many forest trees of ancient date, and has good grounds; leading to the stables is a pedimented gateway, flanked by columnar buttresses and smaller embattled arches.

Gough Park, also at Forty Hill, and formerly the residence of Richard Gough, the antiquary; the house is now (1898) unoccupied, and the park is being built upon: the New River flows through the grounds.

Capel House, Bull’s Cross, is the residence of James Warren esq.

Myddelton House is occupied by Henry Carrington Bowles Bowles esq. J.P., D.L. Chase Park forms a portion of the Old Park estate, Winchmore Hill; the present mansion was built about 1822 and a sheet of water formed in front by agreement with the New River Company; it is at present (1898) unoccupied, and the land has been partially bought by the Great Northern railway for their new line to Hertford, and the rest will eventually be built over.

A large portion of the ancient Chase and the manor of Enfield belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster and Acts of Parliament were passed in 1777 and 1801 for its enclosure.

The manor of Enfield and Honor of Clare belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster. H.M. the Queen is lady of the manor. A Court Leet and Court Baron are held annually on Whit Wednesday; steward, Hy. Corbin Weld esq; the parish also contains the manor of the Rectory of Enfield, of which the Masters, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, are lords; steward, Hy. Corbin Weld esq.; the manor of Worcesters and Capels and the manor of Durant’s and Grartons. Part of the land belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster-other owners are, Francis Augustus Bevan esq. of Trent Park, Mrs. Twells, Henry Carrington Bowles Bowles esq. J. W. Ford esq. J.P. the representatives of the late H. C. Wilkinson, Charles Jack esq. Col. Alfred Plantagenet Frederick Charles Somerset C.B., D.L., J.P. and Lieut.-Col. Bernard Tindal Bosanquet D.L.

The parish contains 12,516 acres (of which 36 are in Herts) inclusive of the Chase and 123 water-350 acres of which were enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1801; rateable value, buildings £162,574, agricultural land £17,253; the population in 1871 was 16,054 and in 1881, 19,104, and in 1891, 31,803 (of which 267 are in Herts) and including 393 in Edmonton Workhouse and 163 in Edmonton Workhouse schools; the population of the ecclesiastical parishes in 1891 was: Jesus, 1,598; St. James, 13,730; St. John the Baptist, 2,880; St. Mary Magdalene, 1,654. The population attached to the parish church in 1891 was 11,033; the area of the Urban District is 12,602 acres; rateable value, £179,827; the population in 1891 was 31,536, the remainder of the parish population, 267, being included in East Barnet Valley Urban District.

Boys’ School, erected by subscription in 1859, for 100 boys; average attendance, 65; William Day, master Girls’ School, erected in 1836, at the cost of the late R. C. L. Bevan esq. for 140 girls & infants; average attendance, 107.

Places of Worship, with times of services

St. Andrew’s Church, Enfield Town, Rev. Prebendary George Hewitt Hodson M.A. vicar; Rev. C. F. Peploe M.A. Vesuvio, 10 Queen Anne’s place; Rev. John Mare, The Poplars, Chase side & the Rev. C. H. Culshaw M.A. Eblana, Village road, curates; Sunday services, holy communion 8 a.m. & 11 a.m. 3.15 & 7 p.m.; daily, 8.30 a.m. (with litany on Wed. & Fri. at 1.30), & 4.30 p.m. (except Wed. 7.30 p.m.).

St. Michael’s Chapel of Ease, Chase side, Rev. J. Mare B.A. curate in charge; 8 & 11 a.m. & 7 p.m.; Wed. 5 p.m.; Fri. 7.30 p.m.

St. Mark's Chajpel of Ease, Bush Hill park, Rev. C. F. Peploe M.A. curate in charge; 8 a.m. 1st, 3rd & 5th Sunday; 11 a.m. 3.15 p.m. (3rd Sunday), & 7 p.m.; Thursdays, 8 p.m.

St. John the Baptist Church, Clay hill, Rev. V. Travers Macy M.A. vicar; Rev. H. C. Hudson M.A. & Rev. J. T. Bams B.A. curates; holy communion, 8 a.m. & 1st Sunday after matins, 11 a.m. & 3.30 & 7 p.m.; saints’ days, 10.30 a.m.

St. George’s Iron Church, Enfield Wash, Rev. Bryant Wonnacott, minister in charge; Sunday services, holy communion, 8 & 11.30 a.m.; morning service, 11 a.m.; evening service, 6.30 p.m.; week days, 8.30 a.m. & 7 p.m.

St. Luke the Evangelist, Acacia road (served by the clergy of St. John’s, Clay Hill); holy communion, 8 a.m.; Sundays, 11 a.m. & 3.30 & 7 p.m.; daily service, 8 a.m.; evening service, 5.30 p.m.

St. Mary Magdalene, Ridgeway, Rev. George Passand Turner M.A. vicar; Rev. John H. Davis, curate; 8 & 11 a.m. & 3.30 & 7 p.m.; daily, 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.

St. James’, Enfield Highway, Rev. Joseph Leonard Boulden M.A. vicar; Rev. Charles E. James Carter M.A. & Rev. E. H. Keymer B.A. curates; 11 a.m. & 3.15 & 6.30 p.m.; daily service, 8 a.m.; Fri. 7.30 p.m.

Royal Small Arms Factory District Church, Enfield Lock, Rev. Charles Edwin James Carter M.A. curate in charge; 8 & 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.; saints’ days, 8 a.m.

Jesus District Church, Forty hill, Rev. Edward Wood Kempe M.A. vicar; 11 a.m. 3.15 & 6.30 p.m.; Fri. & holy days, 11.30 a.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Christ Church, Cock Fosters, Rev. William Warren B.A. vicar; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.

Iron Mission Room, Cock Fosters; Thur. 7.30 p.m.

Catholic Chapel, Cecil road, Rev. Edward Murphy, 9.45 a.m. & 5.30 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

Catholic Chapel (St. Joseph’s Home), Holtwhites hill, Rev. Edward Murphy; daily, 7 a.m. & Sunday & Friday, 5 p.m.

Baptist, London road, Rev. George William White; 11 а.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Mon. & Thur. 7 p.m.

Baptist Chapel, Putney road, Enfield Wash; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Baptist, Totteridge road, Enfield Wash, Rev. A. W. Welch; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Baptist (Strict), Nag’s Head road, Enfield Highway; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Congregational, Baker Street, Rev. Samuel Joseph Smith B.A.; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

Congregational (Christ Church), Chase side; Rev. Henry Storer Toms; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Mon. 7; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Congregational (Christ Church) Mission Hall, Lancaster road; 11 a.m. (for children), 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 8 p.m. Congregational Chapel, White Webbs; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.

Congregational, Enfield Highway, Rev. John Cropper; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Chase side; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 p.m.

Wesleyan, Chase side, Rev. E. Julliffe; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Wesleyan (Iron), Ordnance road, Enfield Wash; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.15 p.m.

Christian Mission, Main avenue, Bush Hill park; 11 a.m. & 7 p.m.; Thur. 8 p.m.

Gospel Hall, Botany bay; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Tues. 7.30 p.m.

Salvation Army Fort, Grove road, Enfield Wash.

Enfield Highway Gospel Hall, Enfield Wash.

Cecil Hall Mission Hall, Cecil road.

Schools

Enfield Grammar School was founded in 1557 by Robert Blossom: the school house, rebuilt in the 17th century & restored in 1875, is a structure of red brick, with dormer windows: a new scheme for its management was framed by the Endowed Schools Commissioners in 1873, & it is now governed by a board, consisting of 15 members, of whom 3 are appointed by the County Council; the Eastwood estate forms the principal endowment & furnishes an annual income of £220; there are 125 boys. A science room was built in 1894, & technical classes are held in connection with the Science & Art Department at South Kensington.

A School Board of 9 members was formed March 10, 1894; Nathan Epworth, Court house, Little park, clerk to the board.

Board School, Chesterfield road, Enfield Lock, built in 1897, at a cost of £15,000, for 384 boys, 380 girls, 430 infants & 150 junior (mixed) (total 1,344 children); average attendance, 440 boys, 404 girls, 430 infants & mixed junior not yet opened. The new junior mixed school will cost about £8,000; this school now takes the place of the Government schools at the Lock.

Board School, Bush Hill Park (7th Avenue), built in 1896, for 300 boys & 300 girls; average attendance, 335 boys & 303 girls.

Board School, Botany bay, for 45 children; average attendance, 31.

Board (boys), Chase side, built in 1838, for 115 children; average attendance, 126.

Board (girls), Chase side, built in 1838, for 115 children; average attendance, 123.

Board (infants), Chase side, built in 1838, for 100 children; average attendance, 100.

St. Andrew’s Higher Grade School, Cecil road, for 167 girls; average attendance, 120.

National (St. Andrew’s) (boys), Sydney road, for 430 children; average attendance, 340.

National (St. Andrew’s) (girls & infants), Cecil road, for 193 children; average attendance, 190.

National (St. Andrew's) (infants), for 171 children; average attendance, 121.

Infants’ (St. Andrew’s), Gordon lane, Baker street, built in 1872, for 165 children; average attendance, 120.

St. George’s National (infants), Enfield Wash, built in 1874, for 160 children, to which 2 class rooms have been added with additional accommodation for 120; average attendance, 186.

Infants’ (St. Michael’s), Chase side, built in 1887, for 160 children; average attendance, 152.

Infants’, Maiden’s bridge, built in 1848, for 54 children; average attendance, 40.

National (boys), Enfield Highway, built in 1872, for 268 children; average attendance, 250.

National (girls), Enfield Highway, built in 1834, for 264 children; average attendance, 244.9.

National (infants), Enfield Highway, built in 1888, for 195 children; average attendance, 212.9.

National (St. Michael’s) (boys), Brigadier hill, built in 1881, enlarged in 1883, for 250 children; average attendance, 252.

National (mixed & infants), Forty hill, built about 1846, for 237 children; average attendance, 210.

National (St. John’s) (mixed), Clay hill, built in 1888, for 110 children; average attendance, 86.

St. Luke’s (infants), Hawthorne grove (Clay Hill district), for 150 children; average attendance, 100.

St. Michael’s (girls), Chase side, built in 1870, for 220 children; average attendance, 217.

St. Mark’s National, 4th Avenue, Bush Hill Park (senior infants), for 150 children; average attendance, 163.

St. Mark’s National (junior infants), for 160 chidlren; average attendance, 176.

The Edmonton Union Schools, at Chase Farm, on the Ridgeway, are an extensive series of buildings of brick, commenced in 1884 & completed in 1886, for 500 children, the average number of inmates being 370.

Church Day School of Industry (girls), Silver streets, founded in 1806, & rebuilt, with residence for mistress, in 1876, for the clothing & maintenance of 50 girls; their clothing is made by the girls; the elder girls are trained for service; the school is supported by voluntary subscriptions & has a yearly income of about £120, administered by a committee of ladies.