Edmonton

Edmonton lies in the south-east of the London Borough of Enfield, in the N9 and N18 postcode districts, along Fore Street, the old road north from London. The name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and the historic centre grew around All Saints' Church, a Grade II* listed building of 12th-century origin that was largely rebuilt in the 15th century. Church Street, where Charles Lamb died in 1834 at what is now Lamb's Cottage, and parts of Fore Street are covered by conservation areas. Edmonton Green, the town centre, is dominated by the 10-hectare Edmonton Green Shopping Centre. Pymmes Park and Jubilee Park provide local green space, and the Lee Valley lies to the east.

Enfield Council's conservation area appraisal describes Fore Street as the principal shopping street of Upper and Lower Edmonton, with houses on it from the 17th and 18th centuries. Suburban development gathered pace from the 1890s and was mostly working-class housing, and almost all open land had been built on by the late 1930s. Church Street still has 18th and early 19th century houses and mid-19th century villas, while later post-war public housing and taller residential blocks sit around Edmonton Green and along Fore Street.

Edmonton Green and Silver Street stations are on the Overground Weaver line to London Liverpool Street, both in Zone 4. Seven Sisters, on the same line in Zone 3, connects to the Victoria line. Meridian Water, also Zone 4, is on the Lea Valley line operated by Greater Anglia, with a change at Tottenham Hale for Liverpool Street. There is no Tube station in Edmonton itself. The North Circular Road crosses Fore Street, and the Great Cambridge Road replaced Fore Street as the main north-south highway in the 1920s.