Goat Lane is named after a pub established before 1794[3] which was replaced by a large building in mock-Elizabethan style in the 1930s; this has since been converted to flats.

Interior of the Carpenter's Shop at Forty Hill, Enfield - exhibited 1813thumbnail There are many bus services which serve the area.

This was altered to terminate at the A110 in Enfield Town, and the main route cut to discourage through traffic from using the narrow Maiden's Bridge.

Forty Hall Farm includes an orchard and vineyard and hosts a monthly farmers' market as well live music events.

[5][6][7][8] The hill which gives its name to the district lies to the north of the built-up area and is mainly occupied by Forty Hall and its grounds.

They cut through pre-glacial sand and gravel and glacial till (the latter having been deposited by the Anglian ice advance about 450,000 years ago).

The Lea and the two brooks cut down into the London Clay (to a today's altitude of c35m), thus defining the north, east and south sides of what was becoming Forty Hill.

During further cold climate periods, the Lea laid down Taplow Gravel,[12] east and south of Forty Hill.

Later, the Lea moved further east to its present line, well away from Forty Hill, cutting down to a today's altitude of c20m at Waltham Abbey.

The brooks subsequently cut down a little further and alluvium was deposited along the valley bottoms in Hilly Fields, Whitewebbs Park and the grounds of Forty Hall.

But, in Enfield, the engineers who constructed it took the New River on a loop going west, to the north of Forty Hill, and then across Cuffley Brook near Flash Lane (and, later, across an aqueduct[13] there).

From that point, they took it south-east, through the water gap at Beggars Hollow, along the dry channel north of Clay Hill, and down to where Ladysmith Road is today.