Crews Hill is an elevated and green-buffered former hamlet grown into a small village-size community on the northern outskirts of London centred 12.3 miles (20 km) north of Charing Cross.

It forms part of the London Borough of Enfield and economically has many garden centres and plant nurseries.

John White, the Tottenham Hotspur and Scotland national football team player, was killed by lightning while sheltering under a tree at the golf course on 21 July 1964.

Crews Hill originally had a large area of glasshouse production, to serve the nearby London market with cut flowers, pot plants and vegetables.

Now there are warehouses filled with flowers, chilled at a permanent 7C, the same temperature that has kept them fresh in the six-hour lorry and rail journey through the tunnel from the auctions in Holland.