You can cycle from Edmonton in north London to Enfield Lock, entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 6.7km long (4.2 miles) and makes use of Cycleway 1, as well as paths through Albany Park
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Good Morning 😂
Enfield Lock used to be the home of the Enfield Ordnance Factory, the birthplace of the Lee Enfield rifles, the Brno-Enfield (Bren) light machine gun, the Stirling-Enfield (Sten) submachine gun, and most other infantry small-arms of the World Wars. The presence of the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey indicates an interest dating back to well before Tudor times (although the very early research was done at Monmouth and Tintern Abbey, in the Welsh Borders, as well as at the Woolwich Arsenal, now Boadmarsh Prison and Thamesmead). This was also the birthplace of the Royal Enfield motorcycle, although they're now made in India.
Nice roure, thanks!
I wonder if Haringey was planning any cycle route 1 extension thorough borough in their active plan, and if any of those plan are under actual consideration
Looking a lot lovlier than what's currently out there, I bet :).
Nice one – been waiting for a POV of Hertford Road for a while 🙂
I'm not a fan of the constant twists and turns and the shared space on pavements & bus build-outs, it has so much potential for conflict.
I'll stick with using the canal path, even with the stink from the sewage works.
The route thorugh the park used in this is a detached part of national route 12 and at Enfield Lock (the lock not the station) it joins national route 1, so you can carry on much further north along paths through the Lee Valley Park and at Rye House join national route 61 to Ware, Hertford, Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield. A trip out from London and back on the train is dead easy to do as there are lots of stations along the Lee Valley and at the towns I listed.
The NCN12 west of the park is under constrcution but Enfield are busy adding to it at Enfield Chase including lots of brand new off road cycle paths. So I'm hoping all that work will get through to Hadley Wood and the main bit of route 12, not least as there will be a monster of a south Herts and Enfield circular ride.
Another nice video!
As great as this route is, it's a showcase as to why we need some standardisation across cycle schemes and boroughs in London. It seems a bit too messy at the moment!
Nice video! On the point of bus borders, this is actually how Copenhagen (and lots of other
places in Denmark) design a majority of their bus stops. You just step down from the pavement onto the segregated cycle lane and board the bus. It’s easier for cyclists to manage there, I think, because not many buses will stop at every stop on a given route (and are less frequent than in London). In any case, I really like seeing them here. Looks like they work well.
01:28 Lovely path, nice separation with this little angled wall. I like how people living in this estate can walk quietly, far from the road
02:49 Those plastic curbs are okay, they're just the same colour as the road, they could use a bit of colour or have reflectors on them!
02:56 I do like those planters at the intersections, great for water retention and visibility
05:07 THE AUDACITY
09:47 Are they "rewilding" this place? It looks brilliant!
That's some pretty nice cycle infrastructure Enfield have put in there. Top marks!
Enfield as an outer London Borough seems to do much better than Croydon to the South. Have you done Woodside, Croydon to Greenwich via South Nowood Country Park following the Ravensbourne?
Thanks
Great route, and another super video! 👍
I"m guessing that wasn't one of your "shot, edited & posted on the same day" vids! 😉🤣
excellent. terrific. I want a vid that picks up with the descent into the Enfield Lock bicycle/pedestrian tunnel! (your work is terrific)