South of the Hertfordshire border and M25 motorway, it borders Waltham Cross to the north, Winchmore Hill and Edmonton to the south, Chingford and Waltham Abbey, across the River Lea, to the east and north-east, with Cockfosters, Monken Hadley and Oakwood to the west.

[1] The east of Enfield, adjacent to the River Lea and Lee Navigation, is renowned for its industrial heritage.

At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, the manor of Enfield, spelt 'Enfelde', was the property of Geoffrey de Mandeville, a powerful Norman granted large estates by William the Conqueror.

[3] In 1303, by charter of King Edward I, nobleman Humphrey de Bohun and his heirs were granted a licence to hold a weekly market and two annual fairs, one on St Andrew's Day and another in September.

The last remains of it were demolished in 1928 to make way for an extension to Pearson's department store, though a panelled room with an elaborate plaster ceiling and a stone fireplace survive, relocated to a house in Gentleman's Row, a street of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century houses near the town centre.

188), the writer says: "Dr. Uvedale of Enfield is a great lover of plants, and, having an extraordinary art in managing them, is become master of the greatest and choicest collection of exotic greens that is perhaps anywhere in this land.

His orange-trees and largest myrtles fill up his biggest house, and ... those more nice and curious plants that need closer keeping are in warmer rooms, and some of them stoved when he thinks fit.

"The poet John Keats (1795-1821) attended progressive Clarke's School in Enfield, where he began a translation of the Aeneid.

It was installed at the local branch of Barclays Bank on 27 June 1967 and was opened by actor and Enfield resident Reg Varney.

[14] Enfield Town houses the Civic Centre, the headquarters of the Borough administration, where Council and committee meetings are also held.

[15] In the 2011 census, the Town ward (covering areas north from the Southbury Road) was 82% white (68% British, 10% Other, 3% Irish).

The District is also covered by the Chase, Highlands, Grange, Southbury, Lock, Highway, Turkey Street and Bush Hill Park wards.

is Enfield Town's women's football club, also based at the Queen Elizabeth II Stadium.

The Southbury Loop separates from the Enfield Town branch line between Bush Hill Park and Edmonton Green stations, towards Cheshunt.

Services are operated by Greater Anglia to Liverpool Street, Stratford, Hertford East and Bishop's Stortford.

Enfield and its clock tower are important locations in the 2016 young adult novel Timekeeper by Tara Sim.

The story also attracted press coverage in British newspapers, and has been mentioned in books, and television and radio documentaries.