Enfield Wash is an area in the London Borough of Enfield

London Borough of Enfield

The London Borough of Enfield is the most northerly London borough and forms part of Outer London. It borders the London Boroughs of Barnet, Haringey and Waltham Forest...

, North London

North London

North London is the northern part of London, England. It is an imprecise description and the area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes. Common to these definitions is that it includes districts located north of the River Thames and is used in comparison with South...

. It is approximately located in the area either side of Hertford Road between Turkey Street and Albany Road.

Etymology

Enfield Wash was first recorded in 1675 and on the Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey , an executive agency and non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom, is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, producing maps of Great Britain , and one of the world's largest producers of maps.The name reflects its creation together with...

 map of 1822, from Old English (ga)wæsc 'a place that floods': there was probably a ford

Ford (crossing)

A ford is a shallow place with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading or in a vehicle. A ford is mostly a natural phenomenon, in contrast to a low water crossing, which is an artificial bridge that allows crossing a river or stream when water is low.The names of many towns...

 here where Ermine Street

Ermine Street

Ermine Street is the name of a major Roman road in England that ran from London to Lincoln and York . The Old English name was 'Earninga Straete' , named after a tribe called the Earningas, who inhabited a district later known as Armingford Hundred, around Arrington, Cambridgeshire and Royston,...

 crosses Turkey Brook

Turkey Brook

Turkey Brook rises near the Fir and Pond Woods Local Nature Reserve near Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.- Etymology :The brook named from the street which is recorded as Tokestreete 1441, Tuckhey strete 1610, Tuckey street 1615, Turkey street 1805, probably 'street of houses associated with a family...

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Nearest railway stations

• Enfield Lock railway station
  Enfield Lock railway station
  Enfield Lock railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield in north east London, and is in Travelcard Zone 6, on the Tottenham Hale branch of the Lea Valley Lines, on the West Anglian Railway...
  
  
• Turkey Street railway station
  Turkey Street railway station
  Turkey Street railway station is located in the Bullsmoor area of Enfield in the London Borough of Enfield, North London.The station is in Travelcard Zone 6 and is served by Lea Valley Lines services...
  
  

Parks and open spaces

Albany Park, Enfield, the park was created circa 1902, probably so named to commemorate Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany was the eighth child and fourth son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold was later created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow...

, the youngest son of Queen Victoria, who died in 1884.

The London Outer Orbital Path

London Outer Orbital Path

The London Outer Orbital Path — more usually the "London LOOP" — is a signed walk along public footpaths, and through parks, woods and fields around the edge of Outer London, England, described as "the M25 for walkers"...

 (Section 17) follows the course of Turkey Brook

Turkey Brook

Turkey Brook rises near the Fir and Pond Woods Local Nature Reserve near Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.- Etymology :The brook named from the street which is recorded as Tokestreete 1441, Tuckhey strete 1610, Tuckey street 1615, Turkey street 1805, probably 'street of houses associated with a family...

 which flows west-east through the park.

Schools

Albany School, which is in Bell Lane, adjacent to Albany Park, was opened as a coeducational secondary modern school

Secondary modern school

A secondary modern school is a type of secondary school that existed in most of the United Kingdom from 1944 until the early 1970s, under the Tripartite System, and was designed for the majority of pupils - those who do not achieve scores in the top 25% of the eleven plus examination...

 in 1939, and was converted to a comprehensive school

Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...

 in 1974. It closed in 2009 and there is a new academy, Oasis Academy Hadley

Oasis Academy Hadley

Oasis Academy Hadley is an Academy in Enfield, England run by Oasis Community Learning. It is the second academy in Enfield and has close links with Oasis Academy Enfield. It opened on 7 September 2009...

, that was opened by the Oasis Trust

Oasis Trust

Oasis Trust is a UK-based Christian registered charity. It was founded by Rev Steve Chalke in August 1985, who had been assistant minister at Tonbridge Baptist Church, Kent, for four years...

 on the site. However, it is also planned that the academy should move to Ponders End

Ponders End

Ponders End is a place in the London Borough of Enfield, North London located in an area generally known as the Lea Valley. It is roughly located in the area either side of Hertford Road between The Ride and the Boundary Public House and Wharf Road and the Southbury railway station/Kingsway...

 in 2012.

Politics

Enfield Wash is part of the Enfield North parliamentary constituency. The current MP is the Conservative politician Nick de Bois

Nick de Bois

Geoffrey Nicholas "Nick" de Bois is a British Conservative Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Enfield North, defeating the Labour incumbent MP Joan Ryan....

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