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Bulls Cross

Bulls Cross is a road and hamlet in Enfield, London, on the outskirts of north London, forming part of the Metropolitan Green Belt.

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The place

Bulls Cross is a road and hamlet in Enfield, London, on the outskirts of north London, forming part of the Metropolitan Green Belt. Although it now lies within the ceremonial county of Greater London, prior to 1965 it was in the historic county of Middlesex. The area is situated west of the Great Cambridge Road, and south of the M25 motorway. Crews Hill is to the west, Bury Green to the north, and Bullsmoor to the east.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bulls Cross

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Waltham Abbey Church

    The Abbey Church of Waltham Holy Cross and St Lawrence, also known as Waltham Abbey or Waltham Abbey Church, is the parish church of the town of Waltham Abbey, Essex, England. It has been a place of worship since the 7th century.

    4 km · church in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lee Valley Park

    Lee Valley Regional Park is a 10,000-acre 26 miles long linear park, much of it green spaces, running through the northeast of Greater London, Essex and Hertfordshire. The park follows the course of the River Lea along the Lea Valley from Ware in Hertfordshire through Essex and the north east of Greater London, through the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to East India Docks Basin on the River Thames.

    3.7 km · park in the Lee Valley · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Theobalds House

    Theobalds House, also known as Theobalds Palace, was a significant 16th-century stately home located in the parish of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. Set in extensive parkland, it was a residence of statesmen Lord Burghley and his son the Earl of Salisbury, both leading royal advisers.

    1.3 km · ruined stately home and palace near Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Christ Church United Reformed Church

    Christ Church United Reformed Church is a grade II listed United Reformed Church at Chase Side, Enfield, London.

    3 km · church in Enfield, London · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Forty Hall

    Forty Hall is a manor house of the 1620s in Forty Hill in Enfield, north London. The house, a Grade I listed building, is today used as a museum by the London Borough of Enfield.

    1.1 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in the London Borough of Enfield, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills

    The Royal Gunpowder Mills are a former industrial site in Waltham Abbey, England. It was one of three Royal Gunpowder Mills in the United Kingdom.

    3.8 km · military museum in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Barclays Bank, 20 The Town, Enfield

    Barclays Bank, at 20 The Town, Enfield, formerly the London and Provincial Bank, is a Grade II listed building in the London Borough of Enfield. It was designed by William Gillbee Scott in a Flemish Renaissance style and completed in 1897.

    3.3 km · bank building in Enfield, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Andrew, Enfield

    St Andrew's Enfield is a Church of England church in Enfield, London, and the original parish church of Enfield. It is a grade II* listed building with Historic England.

    3.2 km · Church of England church in Enfield, London, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Nicon House

    Nicon House is an office building at 45 Silver Street, Enfield, London, that until 1911 was the Church of England Girls' School of Industry. It was then used as a boys' preparatory school and subsequently, until 1984, as the offices and printing works of the Enfield Gazette.

    3.1 km · building in Enfield, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Elsyng Palace

    Elsyng Palace was a Tudor palace on the site of what are now the grounds of Forty Hall in Enfield, north London. Its exact location was lost for many years until excavations were carried out in the 1960s.

    800 m · archaeological site in London Borough of Enfield, Greater London, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bulls Cross

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 30 km · London Stansted (STN), 31 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 36 km
Stations
Turkey Street railway station, 1 km · Southbury railway station, 3.3 km · Cheshunt railway station, 3.7 km · Theobalds Grove railway station, 2.3 km · Enfield Chase railway station, 3.5 km
  • London → Bulls Cross
    19 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £2–3
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Bulls Cross
    81 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bulls Cross
    148 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £16–22
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bulls Cross

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bulls Cross. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inUse Woolwich Ferry then for destinations in south London.

From Wikivoyage: London/East, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    140 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    324 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    385 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    547 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    583 km

If you know how people move in Bulls Cross – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bulls Cross

Bulls Cross is 16 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.