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agricultural, with centres of population at Hadley Wood and
Cockfosters, is situate on the London Clay, and is hilly in character,
the highest point in the District being at "Stormont" (near Potters
Bar), 418 feet above Ordnance Datum. The Central; including
the Ridgeway, Old Town, Bush Hill Park, Clay Hill and Forty Hill
is, like the Western, partly on the London clay, and the remainder
on soil of a loamy nature with gravel below. There is a considerable
population in the neighbourhood of the town, partly of a residential
and business, also industrial nature. Bush Hill Park is now almost
entirely built upon, the inhabitants being mostly industrial.
The Eastern part of the District, the lowest point of which
(41 feet above Ordnance Datum) is found near the Flour Mills,
Ponders End, lies in the Lea Valley. The soil is of loam, lying
on a deep substratum of gravel. There are two principal centres
of population, viz., Ponders End and Enfield Lock, and the inhabitants
are mainly employed in local factories, horticulture and
market gardening. In addition to the Royal Small Arms Factory
at Enfield Lock, there are the British Stone and Marble Company,
the Corticine Works, Edison and Swan United Electric Light Company's
Works, Enfield Gas Works, Metallic Tube Works, and the
Velvril-Bonnaud Works, Ponders End; also the Brimsdown Lamp
Works, North Metropolitan Electric Power Station, Ruberoid
Works, and White Lead Works at Brimsdown, Enfield Highway.
In addition to these there are many smaller works and steam
laundries in the District.
Enfield is well provided with parks and recreation grounds,
the Council having purchased and devoted to the use of the public
no less than 170 acres of land.
There is a public park in the Ordnance, Green Street and
Ponders End, and Bush Hill Park Wards respectively. The Town
Ward boasts of a beautiful park (23 acres), as well as "Chase Green,"
and the Chase Ward owns the "North Enfield Cricket Ground,"
and a large park of 62 acres known as "Hilly Fields," a name
which by no means does justice to its natural beauties.
POPULATION.
The population of Enfield at the census of 1901 was 42,738, a
figure which at the census of 1911 was altered to 56,338, showing
an increase in the population of 13,600, or 318 per cent. for the
ten years.
At the last census it was found that the average number of
inhabitants to each house was 5T2, and as on the 30th of June
there were 11,552 inhabited houses, it follows that the population
of Enfield at that date must be estimated at 59,146.
There were 424 uninhabited houses available for habitation,
and although from this it would appear that the housing