ENFIELD, a village of the hundred of Edmonton, in the
county of Middlesex, 10 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 various parishes and the crown, and now occupied by several country seats of the more opulent traders of London. The parish is extensive. Pop. (1851) 9453.