Crews Hill

Crews Hill
Crews Hill Crews Hill shown within Greater London
Population	566 ^[1]^{[note 1]}
OS grid reference	TQ315995
London borough	Enfield
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ENFIELD
Postcode district	EN2
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
EU Parliament	London
UK Parliament	Enfield North
London Assembly	Enfield and Haringey
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Coordinates: 51°40′41″N 0°05′49″W / 51.678°N 0.097°W / 51.678; -0.097

Crews Hill is an elevated and green-buffered former hamlet of Enfield grown into a small village-size community in the northern outskirts of London centred 12 miles (19 km) north of Charing Cross. It forms part of the London Borough of Enfield and economically has many garden centres and plant nurseries.

Etymology

Named from its association with the Crew family, mentioned in local records of the mid-18th century.^[2]

Transport

The area has one bus service (route W10). Crews Hill is served by Crews Hill railway station with trains to Hertford North, Stevenage, Hitchin and Letchworth, in the north, and Moorgate, or King's Cross, to the south.

Places of interest

Nearby, there is Crews Hill Golf Course, which dates from 1916. John White, the Tottenham Hotspur and Scotland national football team player, was killed by lightning while sheltering under a tree at the golf course on 21 July 1964.

On Whitewebbs Lane there is the Whitewebbs Museum of Transport. This is open from 9am - 4pm every Tuesday as well as the last Sunday of every month.

Further up the road is Whitewebbs Park. This is a country park and includes the Enfield Municipal Golf Course.

Crews Hill originally had a large area of glasshouse production, to serve the nearby London market with cut flowers, pot plants and vegetables. As this became less economic, these sites transformed into a number of garden centres and retail nurseries. Describing the horticultural output of Crews Hill, journalist Ian Jack wrote: "The greenhouses at Crews Hill ('Britain's horticultural mile') used to supply London with flowers and salads. Then came garden centres. Now there are warehouses filled with flowers, chilled at a permanent 7C, the same temperature that has kept them fresh in the six-hour lorry and rail journey through the tunnel from the auctions in Holland."^[3]

Turkey Brook flows through Crews Hill.

References

↑ "Neighbourhood Statistics 2011". Office for National Statistics. 31 January 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
↑ Mills A. D. Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names (2001) p59 ISBN 0-19-860957-4 Retrieved 30 October 2008
↑ Jack, Ian (16 February 2008). "How roses got caught between the supermarkets and the greens". theguardian.com. Retrieved 28 March 2014.

Note

↑ Figures shown are for 2011. Please note the population derived from adding Area: E00007030 (Output Area) and Area: E00007032 (Output Area), the latter of which also includes part of Clay Hill

External links

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London Borough of Enfield

Districts	Arnos Grove Botany Bay Bowes Park Brimsdown Bulls Cross Bush Hill Park Chase Side Clay Hill Cockfosters Crews Hill Edmonton Enfield Chase Enfield Highway Enfield Island Village Enfield Lock Enfield Town Enfield Wash Forty Hill Freezywater Gordon Hill Grange Park Hadley Wood New Southgate Oakwood Palmers Green Picketts Lock Ponders End Southgate Upper Edmonton Winchmore Hill World's End

Attractions	Forty Hall and Gardens Millfield Theatre and Arts Centre Capel Manor Myddelton House Gardens Chickenshed Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture Whitewebbs Museum of Transport

Parks and open spaces	Arnos Park Broomfield Park Durants Park Oakwood Park Pymmes Park Trent Country Park Whitewebbs Park

Constituencies	Edmonton Enfield North Enfield Southgate

Tube and rail stations	Angel Road Arnos Grove Brimsdown Bush Hill Park Cockfosters Crews Hill Edmonton Green Enfield Chase Enfield Lock Enfield Town Gordon Hill Grange Park Hadley Wood Oakwood Palmers Green Ponders End Silver Street Southbury Southgate Turkey Street Winchmore Hill

Other topics	Coat of arms Council Grade I and II* listed buildings People Public art Public transport Schools

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