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13 unusual facts about London Borough of Enfield


Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Andrew Wright, director of strategic development, told councillors in Enfield in November 2013 that over the past 3 years, the trust had experienced an 11% rise in patient demand.

Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides mental health and community health services across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey and community health services in Enfield.

Charles Cowden Clarke

Charles Cowden Clarke (15 December 1787 – 13 March 1877), English author and Shakespearian scholar, was born in Enfield, Middlesex.

Chingford Reservoirs

The Chingford Reservoirs is the collective name for the King George V Reservoir and the William Girling Reservoir, which form part of the Lee Valley Reservoir Chain in the London Borough of Enfield.

Enfield Poltergeist

The Enfield Poltergeist was the name given to claims of poltergeist activity at a council house in Brimsdown village, borough of Enfield, England during the late 1970s.

Enfield Town F.C.

This followed the chairman of Enfield FC withdrawing from an outline agreement with the Supporters' Trust which would have seen the Trust take over the running of a debt-free club and receiving £100,000 from money from the sale of Southbury Road which was held in an escrow account by Enfield Council.

Frank Buglioni

Now based in Enfield, London, Buglioni chose to turn professional in November 2011.

Freight quality partnerships

Some of these are small geographically, i.e. covering only one business estate, e.g. Brimsdown Business Area in Enfield, whilst others cover larger areas, such as West London .

Ian Gilzean

Ian Roger Gilzean (born 10 December 1969 in Enfield) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Kevin Stephens

Kevin Alexander Stephens (born 28 July 1984) in Enfield, London, England, is an English professional footballer who plays for Boreham Wood.

Neil Kilkenny

Born in Enfield, Middlesex, Kilkenny moved to Australia with his family at the age of four, and grew up in Brisbane.

Southgate College RLFC

Southgate Rugby League Football Club is a rugby league team based in Southgate College which is located in the London Borough of Enfield that usually competes in Veneto's Nines.

Zumtobel Group

It also manufactured lamps at factories in Leicester (mostly auto and high and low pressure discharge), Merthyr Tydfil (incandescent) and Enfield (fluorescent), which were sold to GE Lighting in the early 1990s.


Alan Teulon

Alan Edward Teulon ARICS MBE was born in Enfield, one of the eighth generation descended from Antoine Teulon, a Huguenot refugee from the south of France who came to England and settled in Greenwich in 1689.

Brickplayer

Brickplayer was a British construction toy with four sizes of sets (1 to 4) made by J. W. Spear of Enfield in North London, later supplementary sets like a Farmyard version were introduced.

Broxbourne Borough F.C.

The club was formed in 1959 as Somersett F.C. by Colin Plowman and Robert Le Moignan who attended Chace Boys School, in Enfield, and played in the Edmonton Youth Saturday League for the first one two season, finishing bottom, failing to win a match.

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.

Joseph Swan

This area, with nearby Brimsdown subsequently developed as a centre for the manufacture of thermionic valves, cathode ray tubes, etc. and nearby parts of Enfield became an important centre of the electronics industry for much of the 20th century.

Oasis Trust

Further "Church.co.uk" network churches have developed running alongside the communities of the Oasis Academies in Salford, Oldham, Brightstowe, Bristol, Enfield, Southampton (Lord's Hill & Mayfield), Immingham and Wintringham.

Royal Enfield Bullet

The Royal Enfield and Bullet names derive from the company's links with the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield, London.