Discover Enfield EN1, North London's Historic Market Town
Enfield EN1 occupies a well-established position in the London Borough of Enfield in north London, a postcode that combines the character of a genuine English market town with the transport connections and amenities of a modern outer London suburb. The town centre around Church Street, The Town, and Palace Gardens Shopping Centre forms the commercial and civic heart of EN1 and has operated as a market since at least the thirteenth century, making Enfield one of the few London boroughs to have retained an active weekly outdoor market on the same site for eight centuries without interruption. Gentleman's Row, running parallel to the New River on the western edge of the town centre, is one of the most architecturally intact Georgian streets in the borough, lined with handsome terraces that have survived the Victorian and twentieth-century expansion of the surrounding area, and the Old Suffolks pub and the Greyhound Hotel on Church Street have served the market area for generations. Enfield Grammar School on Market Place, founded in 1558 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, claims to be among the oldest schools in continuous operation in England.
EN1 is served by Enfield Town station on the Greater Anglia line to Liverpool Street, providing frequent services into the City throughout the day, and by Enfield Chase station on the Thameslink route to Moorgate via Gordon Hill and the inner northern suburbs. Gordon Hill station at the northern edge of the postcode connects residents in the Chase area into the same Thameslink service southward. Bush Hill Park, covering the eastern residential section of EN1, is a quiet late Victorian and Edwardian suburb with its own station on the Liverpool Street line, giving the eastern side of the postcode its own direct access into the City and Tottenham. Enfield Chase itself, the ancient former royal hunting ground that gives Chase Side and Enfield Chase station their names, lies immediately north of the EN1 boundary and the parkland and woodland of Forty Hall and Trent Park are within easy reach of any address in the postcode for residents looking for accessible green space north of the town centre.