Enfield Highway - Etymology

Etymology

Enfield Highway is marked thus on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822, it is a settlement mainly from the eighteenth century named from the kings highe way leading to London 1610, the highway being the Roman road Ermine Street (now the A1010 Hertford Road).

The name of the hamlet along this stretch of road was recorded as "Cocksmiths End" in 1572 and in 1658.

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