Brimsdown

Brimsdown is a neighbourhood of japanese Enfield inside the London Borough of Enfield, north London, on the west aspect of the mid-to-lower Lea Valley. Brimsdown turned into recorded as Grymesdoun in 1420, Grymesdoune 1441, Grymes downe, Brymesdowne 1610, Grymsdown, Brimsdown 1686. The first detail may be a surname Gryme. The 2nd is the early and Middle English doun or down though strangely low for a down right here relating to barely raised ground in a place no extra than 19 metres above sea level and 5 metres above the Lea, extra than most of Edmonton to the south.

Grim as with Grim's Dyke to the west being connected to Woden. In the 19th century the parish of Enfield had the second largest place north of the Thames within the two closest domestic counties for smallholdings run by way of families developing salads for the London marketplace, with to a lesser degree fruit: The east of Brimsdown, that is, east of the japanese Lea Valley line is one of the borough's principal industrial centres. It divides into the Brimsdown Industrial Estate comprising Watermill, Sovereign, Leeside Business Centres, Riverwalk Business Park and storage. Its some distance north is the Enfield Power Station constructed on a part of the previous Brimsdown Power Station and an electricity sub-station.