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Enfield Museum

Enfield's story, free, in the arts centre in the town: the rifle that took its name, the New River, and the first cash machine in the world.

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The Royal Small Arms Factory opened at Enfield Lock in 1816 to make muskets for an army that had just fought Napoleon, and for the next 170 years the town's name went round the world on the rifles made there: the Lee-Enfield was the British infantry weapon of both world wars. That industrial story is the strongest thing in the borough's museum, which sits inside the Dugdale Arts Centre in Enfield Town alongside the New River, the artificial channel that has carried London's drinking water past the town since 1613, the market town it grew from, and the borough's odder claims, among them the first cash machine in the world, opened at the Barclays on The Town in 1967. Entry is free.

Where
London Road, EN2 6EL
Nearest station
Enfield Town · 2 min walk

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