Bowes Park (/boʊz/) is situated on the borders ofWood Green,Palmers Green andBounds Green inLondon, England. The postcodes for Bowes Park areN11, N13 and N22. The border between the London boroughs ofEnfield andHaringey 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 theA406 (to the north)
The population for the Enfield ward at the 2011 Census was 14,051.[1]
The district developed in the 1880s and is named after an old manor calledBowes 1396, marked asBowes Farm andBowes (Manor) on theOrdnance Survey maps of 1822 and 1877, respectively. This is 'estate of a family calledBowes' ; one Johnde Arcubus (Latin for 'of the bows or arches') occurs in a local document from 1274.[2] John de Arcubus was one of manyde Arcubi who lived aroundSt Mary-le-Bow ("Sancta Maria de arcubus") church in theCity of London.[3]
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Bowes Park is a small community centred aroundMyddleton Road, which houses a number of shops. There has been a strong local grassroots campaign to rejuvenate the street. 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. English Heritage recently put forward funding for a number of shopfronts to be restored in a traditional timber framed style.[citation needed]
As of 2016, businesses and shops on Myddleton Road included a cafe and bar; an interior design and gifts shop; a Greek bakery; a Greek deli; an Italian deli; alocal community space offering children's activities and yoga, amongst other things; a gym; a vintage interiors shop; a barber shop; and apiano shop and café.
The Bowes Park community also hosts the regularMyddleton Road market and the Bowes Park Summer Festival.
The road is named afterSir Hugh Myddelton, constructor of theNew River, which passes through Bowes Park and under the road itself. A smaller shopping area is at the north end of Whittington Road.
Bowes Park is served by mainline rail throughBowes Park station with trains to Moorgate via Finsbury Park and Highbury and Islington,London Underground throughBounds Green tube and bus services alongGreen Lanes toWood Green tube station.
The Bowes Park ward covers areas just south of theNorth Circular Road, but not the rail station. The 2011 census showed that the ward's population was 62% white (30% British, 29% Other, 3% Irish), and 8% was Indian.[4]
TheAnglican St Michael at Bowes Church, and Trinity at BowesMethodist Church, lie at the northern end of Palmerston Road.
Shaftesbury Hall is a rare example of a 19th-centurytin tabernacle, which lies abandoned on the western side of Bowes Park station, on Herbert Road. Current part-ownersThe Samaritans have recently rebuilt the building for community use following an earlier proposal for demolition and replacement with a modern office block which was successfully opposed by local people.[5]
The shops in Myddleton Road featured in the first episode of the 1999Channel 4sitcomSpaced. Myddleton Road (outside a menswear shop) makes another brief appearance in a flashback sequence in episode 4 of the first series. The series DirectorEdgar Wright used to live in a Myddleton Road flat.[citation needed]
Some of the exterior sequences featuringOmid Djalili for theDavid Baddiel scripted filmThe Infidel were shot in Thorold Road.[6]
Myddleton Road is included in some of the interior and exterior locations in the music video made byFree Seed Films forThe Blockheads' "Express Yourself", the first single from their 2013 album 'Same Horse Different Jockey'. The album was recorded at theCowshed Studio in Myddleton Road, Bowes Park.[7]
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