ENFIELD, a village of the hundred of Edmonton, in the county of Middlesex, nine miles from London. There are the remains of an ancient royal palace, in which Edward VI. kept his court, and where Elizabeth rested on her way to London in order to assume the crown. Near to it was Enfield chase, disforested in 1779, divided between several parishes and the crown, and now occupied by several country seats of the more opulent traders of London. The parish is extensive, and its population amounted in 1801 to 5881, in 1811 to 6884, in 1821 to 8227, and in 1831 to 8812.