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Freezywater

Freezywater is a neighbourhood of the traditional broad definition of Enfield in the London Borough of Enfield, North London.

Freezywater
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The place

Freezywater is a neighbourhood of the traditional broad definition of Enfield in the London Borough of Enfield, North London. It has a border with Hertfordshire. It is between Bullsmoor to the west, Enfield Lock to the east, Enfield Wash to the south, and Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire to the north. It became more than a hamlet at the beginning of the 20th century.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Freezywater

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
    Gilwell Park

    Gilwell Park is the headquarters and principal camp site of The Scout Association in the United Kingdom. It is a 109-acre site on the northeastern outskirts of London, located within Epping Forest in the Sewardstonebury area of Waltham Abbey, near the border with Chingford.

    3.6 km · UK camp site and activity centre for Scouting and Guiding groups and other youth organizations · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    2.3 km · church in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.6 km · park in the Lee Valley · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.3 km · ruined stately home and palace near Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    2.4 km · military museum in Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    2.7 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in the London Borough of Enfield, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Gilwell Oak

    The Gilwell Oak is an oak tree on the grounds of The Scout Association's headquarters at Gilwell Park, Essex. It is reputed to have been used as a hiding place by Dick Turpin and since the 20th century has become closely associated with the Scout movement.

    3.6 km · Oak tree at Gilwell Park, Essex · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Turnford and Cheshunt Pits

    The Turnford and Cheshunt Pits is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Cheshunt in Hertfordshire and Essex and covers a total of 428.17 acres. It is part of the Lee Valley Special Protection Area.

    3.8 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire and Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Waltham Abbey SSSI

    Waltham Abbey SSSI is a 34.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which is located within the Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey in Essex.

    2.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Waltham Abbey Town Hall

    Waltham Abbey Town Hall is a municipal building in Highbridge Street, Waltham Abbey, Essex. The town hall was completed in 1904 as the headquarters of Waltham Holy Cross Urban District Council, and today serves as the headquarters of Waltham Abbey Town Council.

    2.2 km · municipal building in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England · 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 Freezywater

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 30 km · London Luton (LTN), 32 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 37 km
Stations
Southbury railway station, 3.4 km · Turkey Street railway station, 1.2 km · Theobalds Grove railway station, 1.8 km · Cheshunt railway station, 3 km · Ponders End railway station, 3.8 km
  • London → Freezywater
    20 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £2–3
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Freezywater
    156 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £16–22
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Freezywater
    161 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £18–24
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Freezywater

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 Freezywater. 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

    141 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    326 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    383 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    549 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    584 km

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

Around it

Next door to Freezywater

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

  • Cheshunttown in Hertfordshire, England2.9 km
  • Waltham Abbeytown in Epping Forest, Essex, England2.3 km
  • Waltham Crosstown in Hertfordshire, England1.1 km
  • Sewardstonevillage in Essex, England, UK2.9 km
  • Ponders Endcommercial and residential district of the London Borough of Enfield, London, England3.9 km
  • Clay Hillarea of Enfield, London, England3.7 km