Tottenham
Tottenham is a Town in the county of Greater London.
There are great places to visit near Tottenham including some great cities, castles, museums, historic buildings, rivers and streams, shopping centres, towns, country parks, nature reserves, historic monuments, airports and bluebell woods.
The area close to Tottenham boasts some of the best cities including London.
The Tower of London is one of Tottenham's best, nearby castles to visit in Tottenham.
The Tower of London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, and Cutty Sark are great places to visit near Tottenham if you like museums.
The Tower of London, Millenium Bridge, Sutton House and Breaker's Yard, and Osterley Park and House are great places to visit near Tottenham if you like historic buildings.
The area close to Tottenham boasts some of the best rivers and streams including River Thames at London.
Shopping Centres to visit near Tottenham include Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, and Whitgift Centre.
Tottenham has some unmissable towns nearby like Hendon, Greenwich, Croydon, Chislehurst, Enfield, and Isleworth.
The area around Tottenham boasts some of the best country parks including Fryent Country Park, South Norwood Country Park, Morden Hall Park, Bedfont Lakes Country Park, Scadbury Estate Country Park, Stanmore Country Park, and Whitewebbs Country Park.
Morden Hall Park is one of Tottenham's best, nearby nature reserves to visit in Tottenham.
The area around Tottenham's best historic monuments can be found at Cutty Sark.
London Biggin Hill Airport, Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, and London Heliport are some of Tottenham best airports to visit near Tottenham.
The area around Tottenham's best bluebell woods can be found at Stanmore Country Park.
Tottenham History
There are some historic monuments around Tottenham:
Places to see near Tottenham
History of Tottenham
Tottenham is believed to have been named after Tota, a farmer, whose hamlet was mentioned in the Domesday Book. ‘Tota’s hamlet’, it is thought, developed into ‘Tottenham’. The settlement was recorded in the Domesday Book as Toteham. It is not related to Tottenham Court Road in Central London, though the two names share a similar-sounding root.
There has been a settlement at Tottenham for over a thousand years. It grew up along the old Roman road, Ermine Street (some of which is part of the present A10 road), and between High Cross and Tottenham Hale, the present Monument Way.
When the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, about 70 families lived within the area of the manor, mostly labourers working for the Lord of the Manor. A humorous poem entitled the Tournament of Tottenham, written around 1400, describes a mock-battle between peasants vying for the reeve’s daughter.
In 1894, Tottenham was made an urban district and on 27 September 1934 it became a municipal borough. As from 1 April 1965, the municipal borough formed part of the London Borough of Haringey together with Hornsey and Wood Green.
The River Lea (or Lee) was the eastern boundary between the Municipal Boroughs of Tottenham and Walthamstow. It is the ancient boundary between Middlesex and Essex and also formed the western boundary of the Viking controlled Danelaw. Today it is the boundary between the London Boroughs of Haringey and Waltham Forest. A major tributary of the Lea, the River Moselle, also crosses the borough from west to east, and often caused serious flooding until it was mostly covered in the 19th century.
From the Tudor period onwards, Tottenham became a popular recreation and leisure destination for wealthy Londoners. Henry VIII is known to have visited Bruce Castle and also hunted in Tottenham Wood. A rural Tottenham also featured in Izaak Walton’s book The Compleat Angler, published in 1653. The area became noted for its large Quaker population and its schools (including Rowland Hill’s at Bruce Castle.) Tottenham remained a semi-rural and upper middle class area until the 1870s.
