Bowes Park () is situated on the borders of
Wood Green
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,
Palmers Green
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and
Bounds Green
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B ...
in
London, England
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. The postcodes for Bowes Park are
N13 and N22. The border between the London boroughs of
Enfield
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** Enfield High School (South Australia)
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and
Haringey
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goes through the area. 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
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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. 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
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.
Community and grassroots campaigns
Bowes Park is a small community centred aroun
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;
local community space offering children's activities and yoga amongst other things; a gym; a vintage interiors shop; a barber shop; and
piano shop and café
The Bowes Park community also hosts the regula
Myddleton Road marketand 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.
Transport
Bowes Park is served by mainline rail through
Bowes Park station with trains to Moorgate via Finsbury Park and Highbury and Islington,
London Underground
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through
Bounds Green tube and bus services along
Green Lanes Green Lanes may refer to:
*A green lane (road), a type of road, usually an unpaved rural route.
*Green Lanes (London), a major road running through north London
* Harringay, a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Haringey
The London Borough o ...
to Wood Green underground station.
Demography
The Bowes Park ward covers areas just south of North Circular Road, but not the rail station. The 2011 census showed that the ward's population was 62% white (30% British, 29% Other, 3% Irish), and 8% was Indian.
Places of worship
The
Anglican
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St Michael at Bowes Church, and Trinity at Bowes
Methodist
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Church, lie at the northern end of Palmerston Road.
Shaftesbury Hallis a rare example of a 19th-century
tin tabernacle
A tin tabernacle, also known as an iron church, is a type of prefabricated ecclesiastical building made from corrugated galvanised iron. They were developed in the mid-19th century initially in the United Kingdom. Corrugated iron was first us ...
, which lies abandoned on the western side of Bowes Park station, on Herbert Road. Current part-owners
The Samaritans
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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.
In popular culture
The shops in Myddleton Road featured in the first episode of the 1999
Channel 4
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sitcom
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''
Spaced
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''. Myddleton Road (outside a menswear shop) makes another brief appearance in a flashback sequence in episode 4 of the first series. The series Director
Edgar Wright
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used to live in a Myddleton Road flat.
Some of the exterior sequences featuring
Omid Djalili
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Early life and education
Djalili was born on 30 September 1965 in Chelsea, London, to Iranian Baháʼí parents. He attended Holland Park ...
for the
David Baddiel
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scripted film ''
The Infidel'' were shot in Thorold Road.
Myddleton Road is included in some of the interior and exterior locations in the music video made by
Free Seed Films
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The c ...
for
The Blockheads
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"Express Yourself" the first single from their 2013 album 'Same Horse Different Jockey'. The album was recorded at the
Cowshed Studio
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in Myddleton Road Bowes Park.
Notable people associated with Bowes Park
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Robert Ayton (1915–1985), a British comics artist and illustrator who worked for the ''
Eagle
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'' and
Ladybird Books
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, was born in Bowes Park.
*
Arthur C Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 191719 March 2008) was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film '' 2001: A Space ...
(16 December 191719 March 2008), the pioneering English
science fiction
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author and
inventor
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, lived at 88 Nightingale Road, Bowes Park, from 1946 with his brother Fred Clarke and Fred's wife Dorothy.
*
Natalie Evans, Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
Natalie Jessica Evans, Baroness Evans of Bowes Park, (born 29 November 1975), is a British politician and member of the House of Lords. A member of the Conservative Party, she was made a life peer in 2014 and from 2016 to 2022 was Leader of th ...
(b. 29 November 1975) is a British Conservative Party politician and member of
the House of Lords
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.
*Donald MacCadie, inventor of the electrical
AVOmeter
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, lived at 190 Bowes Road at the corner of Moffat Road. For a time he rented Shaftesbury Hall, a pre-fabricated corrugated iron chapel or
tin tabernacle
A tin tabernacle, also known as an iron church, is a type of prefabricated ecclesiastical building made from corrugated galvanised iron. They were developed in the mid-19th century initially in the United Kingdom. Corrugated iron was first us ...
on Herbert Road, as an assembly shop for his invention.
References
External links
Bowes Park Community AssociationTrainspots – Bowes Park stationBowes and Bounds Connected: Community website for Bowes Park and Bounds Green History of Bowes Park and Bounds Green – Hornsey Historical Society
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Areas of London
Districts of the London Borough of Enfield
Districts of the London Borough of Haringey
Places formerly in Middlesex