Tag: Enfield
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The Best Places to See Wisteria in London
There is a brief stretch each spring when London goes gloriously over the top. Quiet streets turn theatrical. Front doors acquire an audience. Entire facades seem to dissolve under purple bloom. Wisteria season usually peaks in late April and early May, and it never lasts quite long enough. This is the city at its most…
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Crews Hill: London’s Garden State
There are parts of London that shout. Crews Hill does not. It sits at the city’s northern lip, technically in the London Borough of Enfield, quietly minding its compost. If Soho is sequins and Shoreditch is trainers with opinions, Crews Hill is a man in a fleece explaining mulch ratios. It is, officially, a small settlement…
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Meridian Water: London’s Most Ambitious Reinvention?
There are parts of London that arrive fully formed — stuccoed, smug, Instagram-ready. And then there are parts that feel like a question. Meridian Water is very much a question. Set in the north-east of the capital, in the borough of Enfield, Meridian Water is one of London’s largest regeneration projects: 85 hectares of former industrial land, once…