[3] Before the advent of the motor car, the Fox was the terminus of the horse-drawn bus service into London, run by the Davey family of publicans.

[4] In 2002, a dispute between rival Albanian drugs gangs at The Fox spilled out on to the streets of Palmers Green and two men were critically injured and a third man, Edmund Gullhaj (22), was pronounced dead at the scene.

[5] The Fox featured in the film of J.K. Rowling's novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).

[6] In 2015, the pub became the London Borough of Enfield's first Asset of Community Value after a successful application by Southgate Civic District Trust.

[8] In 2017, it was reported that Dutch brewers Heineken owned the pub and were preparing plans to redevelop it.