Edmonton

, Edmonton, at dusk. Edmonton gasworks on horizon. (February 2006)]] ]] The main Roman road, Ermine Street, passed through what is today Edmonton. It ran from London to Lincoln and on to York. Edmonton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it is recorded as Adelmetone—'a farmstead or estate of a man called Ēadhelm', from an Old English personal name and tūn. Edmonton Hundred was a division of the historic county of Middlesex from Saxon times, an area of some 31,000 acre stretching up the west bank of the Lea from Tottenham to the county boundary south of Waltham Cross, and west into what is now Hertfordshire as far as South Mimms. Local government in the modern sense began in 1837…

A terrace of twenty-five Georgian houses in the Hertford Road, built between 1826 and 1851 by a London solicitor. By the late 19th century the properties in the Crescent had been largely split into flats.