Removals in Enfield

Removals Enfield: two kinds of move either side of the A10

The Great Cambridge Road was cut through the parish in 1923 and 1924, and it still divides Enfield. The Victoria County History of Middlesex notes that the old separation between Enfield Town and the eastern part of the parish survived the interwar building boom, because much of the land along the new road went to industry, playing fields and schools rather than housing. For a removal, that line matters more than the postcode. West of the A10 the roads climb and bend, many houses are large and old, and some sit at the end of private drives. East of it the streets are flat and straight, lined with three-bedroom semis and short terraces, and the real question is where the van will stand rather than how to get a wardrobe down a hill.

West of the A10: Gordon Hill, the Ridgeway and the old Chase

Building on the former Enfield Chase started after the Great Northern branch reached Enfield in 1871. By 1897 some of the largest houses in the parish lined the Ridgeway as far as Holtwhites Hill, and the same history records that many expensive private flats later replaced older houses along it. So a Ridgeway job can just as easily be a flat in a purpose-built block as a detached house with a long drive, and we ask which before we suggest a vehicle; our guide to choosing the right size of van explains how we decide.

Around Gordon Hill, the North London Society bought Gordon House, pulled it down and laid out Halifax and Gordon roads, which had houses by 1868; houses were going up on the site of Gordon House itself in 1894, and Gordon Hill station arrived with the Hertford line extension in 1910. Drapers Road, between the Ridgeway and Holtwhites Hill, was laid out by 1897 but mostly built between about 1922 and 1925, while Holtwhites Avenue and Trinity Street at the foot of the hill filled with terraces. On these streets we look at the slope between the front door and the kerb before deciding how many people the job needs. A three-piece suite carried up a front path on a hill takes longer than the same suite on the flat, and the price should allow for that rather than surprise anyone on the day.

Clay Hill and Crews Hill: lanes, drives and gate lodges

Clay Hill is the nearest thing Enfield has to a country lane. Enfield Council's 2015 appraisal of the Clay Hill conservation area counts only sixty dwellings inside it, describes the road as enclosed by high walls and hedges with a single narrow pavement on the south side, and notes that several of the larger houses are hidden at the end of private drives. St John's Terrace, a late Victorian L-shaped row of artisan cottages, partly faces a rough, unmade side road. The 1930s Park Nook semis line the south side of the road at the eastern end, just outside the boundary.

For a house on Clay Hill or Theobalds Park Road, we check the gate width, the surface of the drive and where a van can turn before we pick the vehicle, because reversing out of a hedged drive onto a bend is not something to work out on the morning. Further out on the Hertford line, Crews Hill had a small estate of 102 houses built after 1931; the golf courses and farmland around it became Green Belt, so the homes there sit mostly in that one group of streets.

East of the A10: Enfield Highway, Enfield Wash and Turkey Street

Hertford Road, the old road from Bishopsgate to Ware, once carried a string of separate hamlets. The council's Turkey Street appraisal lists them: Ponders End, Green Street, Cocksmith's End (now Enfield Highway), Horsepoolstones (now Enfield Wash) and Turkey Street. Between the wars they ran together. The county history counts 21 private estates for 2,500 houses approved east of the Great Cambridge Road between 1931 and 1937, among them the Aylands estate of 286 houses at Enfield Wash, on Ayland, Larmans, Balmoral and Windsor roads, and the Longfield estate of 284 houses at Enfield Highway, alongside council building south of Carterhatch Lane around Central Avenue.

Those houses are most of what we move in EN3: a three-bedroom semi or end of terrace with a short front garden, sometimes a dropped kerb, and a loft that has quietly filled up since the last move. Along Hertford Road itself, shopping parades replaced the older cottages and shops near St James's church in the 1930s. Where a flat sits above one of those shops, the way in is often at the back or through a side door, and we have written up what a move from a flat over a shop involves. For homes on the post-war council estates around Addison Road and north of Hoe Lane, we check whether it is a house or a flat, the stair widths and any lift before we quote.

In Turkey Street the conservation area is tiny: 18 houses, the former Turkey pub and the bridges beside the station. A few of the houses face the footpath along the Turkey Brook rather than the road, and the appraisal describes a rear access past a garage court and parking bays. For those, we decide whether the van is better on Turkey Street at the front or at the back before the crew arrives.

Office removals Enfield

Business moves in Enfield are usually modest: practices and offices above the Hertford Road and Chase Side shops, trade counters and units on the industrial land along the Great Cambridge Road, and schools on the land beside the same road. We move them after closing or over a weekend so that work starts again at the new address the next morning, and our office move planning checklist sets out what to sort before the day.

Enfield removals price guide

Guide prices for moves within or out of Enfield:

These are guides, not quotes. A Ridgeway house with a long drive and a Freezywater semi with the van at the gate can cost quite different amounts for the same number of bedrooms, so each Enfield move is priced on its own.

Other parts of Enfield and the borough around it

This page covers Gordon Hill, the Ridgeway, Clay Hill, Crews Hill, Bulls Cross, Enfield Highway, Enfield Wash, Turkey Street and Freezywater. The places next to them that have a page of their own: