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5 unusual facts about Enfield Lock


.476 Enfield

The Enfield name derives from the location of the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock, the armoury where British Military Small Arms were produced (in this case, the Enfield revolver the cartridge was best known for being used in), while Eley was a British commercial brand.

.55 Boys

Development on what is known as the .55 Boys was started by Captain H C Boys, a designer at the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield.

Bishop Stopford's School

Every year pupils from Years 7 to 10 go on an eleven-mile (seventeen-kilometre) sponsored walk known as the School Pilgrimage along the canal tow-path of the River Lee (or Lea) Navigation from Ware to Enfield Lock.

Bullpup

After being mobilized during the war he escaped German and Russian forces and made his way to England, where he was a part of the "Polish design team" at Enfield Lock's Royal Small Arms Factory.

Enfield Lock

After rioting had spread from neighbouring Tottenham on 8 August 2011, the Sony DADC/PIAS distribution centre on the Innova Business Park was looted and destroyed by fire.



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