Situated on the northern border of London, this neighbourhood area offers a vast stretch of the Green Belt for visitors and residents to explore, whilst benefiting from the transport connections to central London. Populated mostly by Victorian and Edwardian houses, this semi-rural village is a beautiful middle-ground for those who seek the best of both worlds. The village-life may get a little louder when the Spurs are playing, however, as the home ground of Tottenham Hotspur is located in the eastern side of this neighbourhood.

Previously populated by farmland and an estate on the outskirts of London, this neighbourhood retains this element of history with the modernised Forty Hill Estate. Originally built in 1632 by a former Lord Mayor of London, the estate now provides a fantastic opportunity for visitors to learn more about the growth of the city, and the role of the merchant classes in its establishment as a major global trade centre. The Forty Hall Farm also remains, which is now an organic farming hosting regular public events, as well as functioning as an educational area for students of the nearby Capel Manor College.

This neighbourhood was also home to Robert Buckle and his two friends Sam Casey and John Anderson, who together formed Tottenham Hotspur Football Club as a way to continue playing sport during the winter months. It is said they met under a lamppost of Tottenham High Road one night and agreed to form a club in 1882. Within just a few years, the club’s matches began to attract local interest and thousands of spectators would show up to a single game.

One of the downsides of this neighbourhood is that new building continues to go on over the rural areas, with Tottenham Hotspurs having recently built a new sports academy on green belt land. Residents state that they are “confident in the local council” to prevent any further development on green belt land, however, since they have pledged to only allow building on brownfield sites in the foreseeable future.

Enfield Council acknowledges the adverse effects that congestion has on residents and businesses in the borough. As a result, they aim to deploy a package of transport improvements targeted on the M25 between junctions 25 and 26, the A10, and the A406 North Circular Road to alleviate this problem over the next decade. The closest private investment in the area is the Old Royal Chace development at 162 The Ridgeway, which will provide 64 new homes and a care home with 92 rooms.