The New River Loop and Enfield Town Park
Park · Enfield Town, England
The New River Loop runs through Enfield Town Park, entered from River View, EN2 6PZ. The New River is an artificial aqueduct completed in 1613 under Sir Hugh Myddelton to bring water from Hertfordshire to New River Head in Clerkenwell, and the bypassed Enfield Town loop survives as an ornamental watercourse. Four bridges over it are covered by a single Grade II entry, NHLE 1079457. No source states the park's opening hours, so none are given here.
History
The four bridges - one at the south end of Parsonage Gardens, the others on the east side of River Walk - were listed Grade II on 20 March 1990 as NHLE 1079457. The Crown and Horseshoes public house on the loop is Grade II, NHLE 1079501, listed on 31 January 1974. About 1.5 km downstream, Bush Hill Sluice is Grade II, NHLE 1260895, added to the list on 20 March 1990; Historic England dates it to 1796, attributes it 'probably by Robert Mylne, for the New River Company' and describes a 'Single cell, square on plan, straddling the watercourse' in painted brick on a stone arch, with a Welsh slate hipped roof and a spike finial. Further north the Flash Lane aqueduct, which carried the New River across the Salmons Brook, is a scheduled monument, NHLE 1001989, scheduled on 26 April 1972 over 0.04 hectares. Enfield Town station is about 186 m from the market square end of the loop; at the sluice, Grange Park is about 997 m and Bush Hill Park about 1,046 m.
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River View, Enfield Town, Enfield EN2 6PZ
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