Bowes Park
| Bowes Park | |
| Middlesex | |
|---|---|
 Myddleton Road, Bowes Park | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ307908 |
| Location: | 51°36’4"N, 0°6’50"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | London |
| Postcode: | N13, N22 |
| Dialling code: | 020 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Haringey / Enfield |
Bowes Park is a village situated on the borders of Wood Green, Palmers Green and Bounds Green in Middlesex, deep within the Metropolitan conurbation. Bowes Park village is defined as the triangle area between Bounds Green Road / Brownlow Rd (to the west), Green Lanes (to the east) down to Trinity Road (to the south) and the A406 (to the north)
The population for the Enfield ward at the 2011 Census was 14,051.
History
The district developed in the 1880s and is named after an old manor called Bowes 1396, marked as Bowes Farm and Bowes (Manor) on the Ordnance Survey maps of 1822 and 1877, respectively. This is 'estate of a family called Bowes' ; one John de Arcubus (Latin for 'of the bows or arches') occurs in a local document from 1274.[1] John de Arcubus was one of many de Arcubi who lived around St Mary-le-Bow ("Sancta Maria de arcubus") church in the City of London.[2]
Community and grassroots campaigns
Bowes Park is a small community centred around Myddleton Road, which houses a number of shops. There has been a strong local grassroots campaign to rejuvenate the street. The local action group "We Love Myddleton Road" meet several times a year and work with the police and local council to encourage regeneration and business development in the area. English Heritage recently put forward funding for a number shopfronts to be restored in a traditional timber framed style.
As of 2016, businesses and shops on Myddleton Road included a cafe and bar; an interior design and gifts shop; a Greek bakery; a Greek deli; an Italian deli; a local community space,[3] amongst other things; a gym; a vintage interiors shop; a barber shop; and a piano shop and café.
The Bowes Park community also hosts the regular Myddleton Road market and the Bowes Park Summer Festival. The road is named after Sir Hugh Myddelton, constructor of the New River, which passes through Bowes Park and under the road itself. A smaller shopping area is at the north end of Whittington Road.
Churches
- Church of England: St Michael at Bowes Church
- Methodist: Trinity at Bowes Methodist Churc
Shaftesbury Hall[4] is a rare example of a 19th-century tin tabernacle, which lies abandoned on the western side of Bowes Park station, on Herbert Road. Current part-owners The Samaritans have recently rebuilt the building for community use following an earlier proposal for demolition and replacement with a modern office block which was successfully opposed by local people.[5]
In popular culture
The shops in Myddleton Road featured in the first episode of the 1999 Channel 4 sitcom Spaced: the series Director Edgar Wright used to live in a Myddleton Road flat.
Some of the exterior sequences featuring Omid Djalili for the David Baddiel scripted film The Infidel were shot in Thorold Road.[6]
Myddleton Road is included in some of the interior and exterior locations in the music video made by Free Seed Films for The Blockheads "Express Yourself" the first single from their 2013 album 'Same Horse Different Jockey'. The album was recorded at the Cowshed Studio in Myddleton Road Bowes Park.[7]
Outside links
- Bowes Park Community Association
- We Love Myddleton Road
- Myddleton Road Market
- Trainspots - Bowes Park station
- Bowes and Bounds Connected: Community website for Bowes Park and Bounds Green
- History of Bowes Park and Bounds Green - Hornsey Historical Society
References
- ↑ Mills A. D. Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names (2001) p28 ISBN 0-19-860957-4
- ↑ St. Mary le Bow 104/10: Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire: Cheapside; parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane (1987), pp. 243
- ↑ Spark99
- ↑ Shaftesbury Hall N11
- ↑ Robert Mason. "Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society". http://www.glias.org.uk/news/236news.html#E. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
- ↑ "Local Film Locations - Bowes and Bounds Connected". http://www.bowesandbounds.org/forum/topics/local-film-locations?commentId=6278630%3AComment%3A72620. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
- ↑ "The Blockheads - Express Yourself - Bowes and Bounds Connected". 1 November 2013. http://www.bowesandbounds.org/video/the-blockheads-express-yourself. Retrieved 11 April 2016.