Upper Edmonton was very different two hundred years ago. Then, the river
Lea ran along its eastern edge. The river formed the boundary between the
counties of Middlesex and Essex. You could sail north as far as Ware and
south to the Thames at Canning Town.
Getting around town
If you preferred to travel by road, Fore Street took you to the City of
London. By the early 1800s coaches left Bishopsgate every hour.
Fashionable commuters built fine houses with iron gates at Upper Edmonton.
The Angel Inn served traffic passing north towards Hertfordshire. Wier
Hall, west of Fore Street, stood at the west end of modern-day Silver
Street.
New and accurate map
This section is from 'A New and Accurate Map of the Country Twenty-Five
Miles Round London'. It shows 'His Majesty's Palaces, Noblemen and
Gentlemen's Seats, Cities, Market Towns, Villages, Churches, Cottages,
Rivers, Mills, Parks, Woods, Heaths and Remarkable Hills'. The map was
drawn in 1777 by a land surveyor called John Andrew. The scale is 7/8 inch
: 1 mile.
