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Maybe affixing a Jehovah's witness logo to the gate prevents Jehovah's witnesses calling to try to convert you. Genius

Ian | 19.03.23 - 8:11 a.m. | #

Perhaps they are mistaken but Zoopla reckons there is one property south of the M25 in EN7 5HR. Capel Cottage, 279 Bullsmoor Lane.
(It must be just a coincidence that the 279 bus runs nearby...)

And one in EN7 5HT. Bulls Cross Lodge, 2 Gilmour Close.

The latter is Grade II listed.

Andrew | 19.03.23 - 8:59 a.m. | #

New Cottage Farm bus stop. Bet lost! I have been there!

Barry Coppock | 19.03.23 - 9:00 a.m. | #

Just because Capel Manor doesn’t use EN7 5HR doesn’t exempt you from visiting EN7, as it does extend in to London. Do it again. 😉

Mike Jones | 19.03.23 - 9:10 a.m. | #

My rules for this challenge: there has to be at least one deliverable address inside Greater London or the postcode district doesn’t count.

Seems there might be though, dammit.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 19.03.23 - 9:15 a.m. | #

Capel Manor College is always worth a visit, with campuses in Enfield, Crystal Palace, Mottingham, Gunnersbury and Regent's Park it's London's land-based college. Also responsible for introducing beavers in London and breeding scottish wildcats. Capel Cottage is owned by the college.

Rammey Island is home to a Scout campsite shared between Enfield Scouts and North London Scout District (Camden, Haringey, Islington & the City of London).

I am involved in the running of both of these places, so thanks for the opportunity to plug them!

Steve | 19.03.23 - 9:18 a.m. | #

Places I'm very familiar with; for years The Ridgeway was part of my M-F commute and I had to abandon my car there during a snowstorm some 30+ish years ago. But I've never heard of Rammey Marsh Lock, so thank you I have somewhere to investigate.

Frank F | 19.03.23 - 9:30 a.m. | #

I didn't think I would know anything about these postcodes, but I have been to Capel Manor, have ridden through that M25 tunnel (and had read the blogpost so I knew what I was travelling under) and have walked along the Lee under the M25 bridge - which is doing pretty well for one of DG's out-of-the-way posts in an area I visit so rarely!

Cornish Cockney | 19.03.23 - 11:22 a.m. | #

I forgot to add - the narrow gap in such a fortuitous position for the M25 was safeguarded as the route for Ringway 3 in the late 1940s - a mate of mine worked at the BOC Murex plant that used to be off the Hertford Road just north of the Bullsmoor Lane junction in the early 1970s and he told me they couldn't extend the plant onto the waste ground to the north as it was safeguarded for a motorway.

Steve | 19.03.23 - 2:21 p.m. | #

Now there's a topic for you: to visit and report on what's happened to all the "fortuitous gaps" that were left un-developed for the unbuilt Ringways. There will be others for (eg) railway construction as well. My bet is that most of the Ringway gaps will still be visible. Cynical? Moi?

Alan P | 19.03.23 - 11:05 p.m. | #

The postcode map for the area is indeed quite curious. Looking at the map, the most northerly Enfield postcode EN11 reaches way out of London, further north than SG13, a Stevenage postcode.

Mikey C | 19.03.23 - 11:15 p.m. | #

Lest there be any remaining doubt, confirmation that the London Borough of Enfield includes residential properties at EN7 5HR and EN7 5HT. Struggling to believe that the Homeric DG could so nod, I fear a trap for postcode nerds. Doomed to be banished perhaps to some Non-Geographic Sector.

Rich G | Homepage | 19.03.23 - 11:32 p.m. | #

Probably near to half of the reservation for the M23 to Streatham (the inside-London bit) is built on now, but most of it is less than 20 years old. I remember wondering why all that space next to the tracks had been left empty when they were building a lot of it. Always somewhat bemused that the local NIMBY group is centred on Sandy Lane South, which the motorway was going to run right next to in Wallington. I think most of them are unawares and it would blow their heads open.

Chz | 20.03.23 - 8:12 a.m. | #

A couple of memories pricked on this post as I’d often walk to school along Holmsdale having alighted at what was probably London’s most northerly bus stop and at a time when there was a big trench alongside the road which would become the tunnel that exists today. A later memory was a walk with my then new girlfriend along the Lea Navigation towpath past the Rammey Marsh Lock after a drink at the Old English Gentleman in Waltham Abbey where I discovered that she wasn’t much of a bra wearer!

Phil | 20.03.23 - 9:30 a.m. | #











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