Enfield

Sister cities

• Courbevoie

History

In Anglo-Saxon times, the manor of Enfield was held by Ansgar the Staller ( – 1085), a nobleman and staller to King Edward the Confessor (). The name 'Enfield' most likely came from Old English Ēanafeld or similar, meaning "open land belonging to a man called Ēana". At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, the manor of Enfield, spelt 'Enfelde', was the property of Geoffrey de Mandeville, a powerful Norman granted large estates by William the Conqueror. A priest is recorded in the Domesday Book as holding about 30 acres of land in Enfield, leading some to believe that a priest may have ministered there at St Andrew's Church in this period, although the earliest written evidence of the parish church in Enfield dates from when the parish of Enfield (dedicated to St Andrew) and St Andrew's Church were endowed to the monastery of Walden Abbey in Essex in 1136. In 1303, by charter of King Edward I, nobleman Humphrey de Bohun and his heirs were granted a licence to hold a weekly market and two annual fairs, one on St Andrew's Day and another in September. The village green became a marketplace, making the town of Enfield (also known today as Enfield Town), at the core of the parish, a market town. The parish was the largest in Middlesex (if one excludes from the parish of Harrow on the Hill its Pinner north-west corner, which broke away in 1766); Enfield measured 12,460 acres in 1831, i.e. . Proximity to the megalopolis of London saw Enfield "engulfed" by the capital in the inter-war period of the 20th century. The parish church, located on the north side of the marketplace, is dedicated to St Andrew. While some masonry from the thirteenth century remains, the nave, north aisle, choir, and tower constructed of random rubble and flint, date from the late fourteenth century.…

Most-observed species

• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  50,511
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  47,438
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  46,922
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  43,281
• Rock Pigeon

  Columba livia J.F.Gmelin, 1789 · Aves
  40,069
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  38,034
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  37,154
• Rose-ringed Parakeet

  Psittacula krameri (Scopoli, 1769) · Aves
  35,940

Most recent

• M 3.1 — 2020-09-22
  5 km N of Aylesbury, United Kingdom
• M 3.9 — 2020-09-08
  2 km WSW of Pitstone, United Kingdom
• M 3.3 — 2019-02-27
  3 km SE of Dorking, United Kingdom
• M 2.8 — 2018-07-05
  1 km S of Ewhurst, United Kingdom
• M 2.6 — 2018-06-27
  5 km W of Capel, United Kingdom
• M 2.7 — 2018-04-01
  4 km E of Holmwood, United Kingdom