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Freezywater

Area of Enfield, London, England

Field	Value
country	England
map_type	Greater London
region	London
official_name	Freezywater
london_borough	Enfield
constituency_westminster	Enfield North
post_town	ENFIELD
postcode_district	EN3
postcode_area	EN
dial_code	020, 01992
coordinates
static_image_name	Hertford Road.jpg
static_image_caption	Hertford Road in Freezywater
statistic_title	OS grid reference
statistic	TQ361993

Freezywater is a neighbourhood of the traditional broad definition of Enfield in the London Borough of Enfield, North London. It has a border with Hertfordshire. It is between Bullsmoor to the west, Enfield Lock to the east, Enfield Wash to the south, and Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire to the north. It became more than a hamlet at the beginning of the 20th century.

Freezywater occupies a zone straddling Hertford Road from its junction with Ordnance Road in the south to Bullsmoor Lane and the Holmesdale Tunnel overpass in the north. It is generally deemed to commence westwards from the Liverpool Street to Cheshunt railway.

Etymology

First recorded as Freezywater (1768) and Freezy Water (1819); the local farm choosing to name itself after its fishpond or duck pond which was liable to freeze.

Local history

| image-width = 2500 | image-left = -2000 | image-top = -1280 For centuries this area was farmed principally by three farms and smallholdings, the greatest being Freezywater Farm which was long one of the manor's tenant farms, the others being Totteridge House and Freezywater House. In the 18th century this was called Freezy Water Farm, and later developments largely informally took on the name until the completion of its church in 1906.

During World War II, Chesterfield School was hit by a V1 flying bomb aimed for the Royal Small Arms Factory, about 1.5 mi due east of the school. There was one fatality in the grounds, a teacher looking for her school children.

The church of Saint George, a large red-brick gothic building designed by JEK and JP Cutts, was built between 1900 and 1906. A planned tower was never constructed. It replaced a temporary iron church on a site next to it which remained in use as a church hall for many years.

Nearest places

;Immediately

Bullsmoor
Waltham Cross
Enfield Lock
Enfield Wash ;Beyond
Waltham Abbey
Enfield Town
Brimsdown
Cheshunt
Chingford

Nearest railway stations

Enfield Lock railway station
Waltham Cross railway station
Turkey Street railway station

Schools

Primary schools: Chesterfield Infant School, Chesterfield Junior School, Freezywater St George's Primary School (Church of England), Honilands School
Secondary school: Lea Valley Academy (formerly Bullsmoor Secondary school)

Open spaces

Cunningham Park

References

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References

http://www.enfield.gov.uk/362/Turkey%20Street.pdf{{dead link. (October 2017)
Mills, A. D. ''Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names'' (2001) p.85 {{ISBN. 0-19-860957-4 Retrieved 22 October 2008
Ordnance Survey, Map of Middlesex Sheet 2, 1868-1883
[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26949 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26949] ''british-history.ac.uk''
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/40/a7597740.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/40/a7597740.shtml] ''bbc.co.uk''
T F T Baker, R B Pugh (Editors), A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton, Eileen P Scarff, G C Tyack. (1976). "Enfield: Churches". Institute of Historical Research.

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