Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Enfield Chase like this:

ENFIELD CHASE and ENFIELD HIGHWAY, two hamlets in Enfield parish, Middlesex. The latter has a post office under Ponder's End, London N.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Enfield Chase by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Enfield Chase within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant	Enfield to London	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Enfield	21	2
Bush Hill	0	2
Winchmore Hill	1	2
Clay Hill	0	1
Trent	0	3
Southgate	0	2
Ponders End	0	2
Palmers Green	0	2
Bulls Cross	0	2
Lower Edmonton	0	1
East Barnet	0	3
Edmonton	4	3
New Southgate	0	2
Bounds Green	0	1
New Barnet	0	1
Enfield Lock	0	2
Friern Barnet	1	3
Waltham Cross	0	2
Colney Hatch	1	2
Whetstone	3	2