EDMONTON, an urban district and parliamentary borough of Middlesex, England, 7 2m. N. of London bridge, with stations on the L.N.E. railway. Pop. (1931) 77,652. Edmonton, con sisting of Upper and Lower Edmonton, lies along the Old North road between Tottenham and Enfield, with the river Lea for its eastern boundary. It has grown very rapidly as an industrial area on account of its numerous factories; market-gardening is also carried on there. The church of All Saints, extensively re stored, retains Perpendicular and earlier portions, and some brasses of interest; in the churchyard is the memorial of Charles Lamb, who lived and died (1834) at Edmonton, and his sister. Cowper and Keats were also residents, and the Bell Inn is famed through Cowper's poem John Gilpin. Open spaces in Edmonton include Pymmes park (53ac.) and others. Among buildings there is, in addition to the townhall and public libraries, a technical institute (1912-13) under the Middlesex County Council. Ed monton was constituted an urban district in 1894; the parlia mentary borough was formed out of Enfield in 1918.