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2 unusual facts about Forty Hall


Forty Hall

An avenue of trees runs down the hill from the house into the valley of the Turkey Brook, also known locally as Maidens Brook.

The hall and formal park are located on the top of Forty Hill, a level gravel plateau standing above the flood plain of the River Lea to the east, and the valley of the Turkey Brook to the north and west.


Cuffley Brook

Cuffley Brook is one of the longest brook tributaries of the Lea, forming from Grimes Brook north west of Cuffley, Northaw Brook south-west of Cuffley, snaking for several miles through the south-east Hertfordshire hills past Crews Hill until it reaches a confluence with Turkey Brook, in the London Borough of Enfield, near Forty Hall.


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