Public Walks in Enfield take place once a month on a Sunday afternoon starting at 2pm.
Any of these walks can be led for your group or organisation.
Available Walks
1. Enfield Town
📍 Meet: Enfield Town Station
The backstreets of Enfield Town are discovered on this walk and it all could have been lost.
2. Forty Hill
📍 Meet: Outside Forty Hall by the lake
Some wonderful Georgian buildings in the conservation area. All have stories to tell.
3. Edmonton Conservation Area
📍 Meet: Edmonton Green Station
This walk reveals four literary giants, a garden city estate, a tragic air disaster and its fair share of historic buildings and stories.
4. Chase Side & Gentlemans Row
📍 Meet: Enfield Chase Station
Plague pits, workhouses and murder rub shoulders with Charles Lamb and the gentry of Enfield on today’s walk.
5. Enfield Lock & The Royal Small Arms Factory
📍 Meet: Outside Tesco on Enfield Island Village
Turn right at the Water Tower roundabout and Tesco is front of you. The factory could justifiably claim to be what made Enfield Famous.
6. The Dark Side of Winchmore Hill
📍 Meet: Winchmore Hill Station
Poachers, Highwaymen, murder, ghosts, witches tragedies. Watch the house prices tumble after these stories are revealed.
7. Bush Hill Park
📍 Meet: St Stephens Church (Park Avenue) @ 2pm
Most of the Rustic Bijou Villas have been replaced by flats, but the history remains.
8. Bounds Green
📍 Meet: Bowes Park Station (by Herbert Road) @ 2pm
On the borders of Enfield & Haringey we discover a forgotten hospital, a bluebell wood, and the real Bounds Green.
9. Silver Street & Pymmes Brook
📍 Meet: Silver Street Station Edmonton @ 2pm
Two workhouses, Millfield, Weir Hall, Pymmes House and the Inn of Eight Happinesses.
10. Southgate
📍 Meet: Southgate Tube @ 2pm
The Walkers of Arnos Grove dominate this walk to Southgate Green.
11. The Dark Side of Enfield
📍 Meet: Enfield Town Station @ 2pm
Ghost Trains, Medieval Murders, Hauntings Galore, Witches & Historical Tragedies around the Town.
12. Palmers Green
📍 Meet: Palmers Green Station @ 2pm
Meet Billy Biscuit, visit Loch Melville and hear about the elopement in a laundry basket.
13. Ponders End
📍 Meet: Ponders End Station
A hidden gem: the birth of the light bulb, the valve, thermos flasks, and mains radio.
14. Winchmore Hill
📍 Meet: Winchmore Hill Station
The Cresswells, Quakers, The Old Bakery, and a murdered Prime Minister all here in N21.
15. New Southgate
📍 Meet: Arnos Grove Station
A small enclave with tons of stories.
16. Lavender Hill Cemetery
📍 Meet: Gordon Hill Station
Late Victorian and Edwardian Enfield history comes alive amongst the dead.
17. Lancaster Road
📍 Meet: St Michaels Green (Top of Chase Side)
Lancaster Road, Birkbeck Estate, Hilly Fields & Brigadier Hill.