Bowes Park
| Bowes Park | |
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 Myddleton Road |
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| Bowes Park shown within Greater London | |
| OS grid reference | TQ307908 |
| London borough | |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LONDON |
| Postcode district | N22 and N13 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
| EU Parliament | London |
| London Assembly | |
Bowes Park is situated on the borders of Wood Green, Palmers Green and Bounds Green in London, England. The postcodes for Bowes Park are N22 and N13. The border between the London boroughs of Enfield and Haringey goes through the area. Bowes Park "village" is defined as the triangle area between Bounds Green Road / Brownlow Rd (to the west), Green Lanes (to the east) down to Trinity Road (to the south) and the A406 (to the north)
The population for the Enfield ward at the 2011 Census was 14,051.
The district developed in the 1880s and is named after an old manor called Bowes 1396, marked as Bowes Farm and Bowes (Manor) on the Ordnance Survey maps of 1822 and 1877, respectively. This is 'estate of a family called Bowes' ; one John de Arcubus (Latin for 'of the bows or arches') occurs in a local document from 1274. John de Arcubus was one of many de Arcubi who lived around St Mary-le-Bow ("Sancta Maria de arcubus") church in the City of London.
Bowes Park is a small community centred around Myddleton Road, which houses a number of shops. In years gone by the road was alive with shops of all kinds including butchers, bakers, tea rooms, and greengrocers, as well as many other types of shops. Nowadays many people travel to Wood Green or Muswell Hill to do their main shopping, however there has been a strong local grassroots campaign to rejuvenate the street and, as a result, the road has seen a vast improvement with many new businesses opening up since 2014.
The local action group We Love Myddleton Road meet several times a year and work with the police and local council to encourage regeneration and business development in the area. Myddleton Road has much improved in the last decade and the green shoots of recovery are certainly showing through but the local council's past failure to deal with many breaches of planning laws by landlords has previously threatened progress and regeneration. However, the many boarded up shopfronts which were inappropriate for the conservation area, are now gradually being rented out to new businesses who are replacing the shopfronts with new timber framed versions. English Heritage recently put forward funding for a number shopfronts to be restored in the traditional style and as a result the street has vastly smartened up.
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