Crews Hill

Crews Hill is a small village in the London Borough of Enfield. The village is surrounded by Green Belt land which forms part of the Enfield Chase Heritage Area of Special Character.

The village, which has many garden centres and plant nurseries, is centred 12.3 miles (20 km) north of Charing Cross, is just south of the M25 motorway. In 2025 the government proposed a large new town at Crews Hill.

Crews Hill was historically part of the county of Middlesex.

It is named from its association with the Crew family, mentioned in local records of the mid-18th century.

John and Charles Crew, originally from Barnet, engaged in long and sometimes violent criminal careers in Enfield Chase.

William Crew worked for a time as an employee of the Duchy of Lancaster, the owners of Enfield Chase who were often in conflict with the commoners and common rights of Enfield. Crew also had a long criminal career and engaged in long feuds with the Duchy and appears to have become a folk hero, or anti-hero as a result. William Crew lived to 104 and gave his name to Crews Hill.

Crews Hill is served by Crews Hill railway station with trains to Hertford North, Stevenage, in the north, and Moorgate in the south. Starting in 2021, bus route 456 connects Crews Hill to the North Middlesex Hospital via Enfield Chase and Winchmore Hill.

Crews Hill is part of the large Chase ward, which also covers Botany Bay, Clay Hill and Bulls Cross. In the 2011 census, 77% of the ward's population was white (64% British, 11% Other, 2% Irish), 5% was Black African and 3% Black Caribbean.