Bruce Grove

Last updated October 09, 2019

Bruce Grove is a ward in Tottenham, enclosed by Lordship Recreation Ground, Lordship Lane, Philip Lane, and the High Road. The population of the ward at the 2011 Census was 14,483.^[1] Nearby Bruce Castle was named after Robert the Bruce. ^[2] When Robert became King of Scotland, Edward I seized his English Estates, including the area then known as Bruce Manor.^[3] The area is served by Bruce Grove railway station, from where trains go to Liverpool Street, Enfield Town and Cheshunt.

Tottenham is a district of North London, England, in the London Borough of Haringey. It is 5.9 miles (9.5 km) north-north-east of Charing Cross and lies inbetween Edmonton, Walthamstow, Harringay, Stamford Hill and Wood Green.

Lordship Recreation Ground is a public park in Tottenham, London Borough of Haringey. It is over 20 hectares in size. Access is from Lordship Lane and from opposite Downhills Park in Downhills Park Road. It stretches approximately 750m north-south. The River Moselle runs through the park from west to east and the park also includes a small lake.

Bruce Castle is a Grade I listed 16th-century manor house in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, London. It is named after the House of Bruce who formerly owned the land on which it is built. Believed to stand on the site of an earlier building, about which little is known, the current house is one of the oldest surviving English brick houses. It was remodelled in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

The neighbourhood dates back to Roman times with Ermine Street (High Rd) and to medieval times with the Swan Public House, but most of the houses were built in the late Victorian or Edwardian Era following the building of the Great Eastern Railway Enfield Branch. 7 Bruce Grove features an English Heritage blue plaque to Luke Howard (1772–1864), a meteorologist who devised a nomenclature system for clouds in 1802. The Bruce Grove area of Tottenham High Road has received^{[ when? ]} a £1m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to restore the historic Victorian and Edwardian buildings to their original grandeur under the Bruce Grove Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) project.^[4]

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The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.

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References

↑ "Haringey Ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
↑ Bruce Castle Conservation Area (6) Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
↑ http://www.combs-families.org/combs/records/england/mdx/tottenham.htm Tottenham, Middlesex, England
↑ Bruce Grove Townscape Heritage Initiative Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine

Coordinates: 51°35′35″N0°04′30″W / 51.593°N 0.075°W / 51.593; -0.075

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[1] "Haringey Ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 October 2016.

[2] Bruce Castle Conservation Area (6) Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine

[3] ttp://www.combs-families.org/combs/records/england/mdx/tottenham.htm Tottenham, Middlesex, England

[4] Bruce Grove Townscape Heritage Initiative Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine