Capel Manor College

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Capel Manor is a horticultural further education college based in Bulls Cross, Enfield, London, United Kingdom. The college grounds double as a garden open to the public for most of the year, with a variety of events occurring, including Bushcraft, Lambing weekends, Heavy horse shows ^[1], Leatherwork and Garden festivals. The grounds cover over 30 hectares (74 acres). The students at the college tend the gardens as part of their programme of study.

Capel Manor stable block. The weather vane depicts a Clydesdale horse

1 Etymology
2 Student learning
3 Campuses
4 Notable alumni
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Etymology

Capel Manor house is marked on Grenewood's map of 1819 as Capel House, and on the Ordnance Survey map of 1887, earlier Capels c.1615, a manorial name 'estate of the family called Capel', from Sir George Capel 1547.^[2]

[edit] Student learning

Capel Manor offers a wide range of courses for students to learn, including countryside management, animal care, horticulture, saddlery, arboriculture, floristry, garden design among others.

[edit] Campuses

While the main campus is in Enfield, there are other campuses across London, in Gunnersbury Park, Regent's Park, Crystal Palace, Barking and Dagenham College ^[3] and Edmonton Green ^[4]. The College also runs Forty Hall Farm, a 140 acre organic farm in Enfield.

[edit] Notable alumni

Kim Wilde

[edit] References

^ Hertfordshire Heavy Horse Association Retrieved 25 August 2011
^ Mills A.D. Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names (2001) p40 ISBN 0198609574 Retrieved 30 October 2008
^ Barking and Dagenham College Retrieved 30 October
^ Edmonton Green Retrieved 30 October 2008

[edit] External links

Coordinates: 51°40′48″N 0°03′31″W / 51.6799°N 0.0585°W / 51.6799; -0.0585

v t e Schools and colleges in the London Borough of Enfield

Independent schools	Palmers Green High School Phoenix Academy St. George's R.C. Primary School St. John's Senior School

Grammar schools	The Latymer School

Comprehensive schools	Aylward Academy Bishop Stopford's School at Enfield Broomfield School Chace Community School Edmonton County School Enfield County School Enfield Grammar School Highlands School Kingsmead School (Enfield) Lea Valley High School Nightingale Academy Oasis Academy Enfield Oasis Academy Hadley Salisbury School Southgate School St Anne's Catholic High School St Ignatius' College Winchmore School

Colleges	Capel Manor College The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London Southgate College

Special schools	State: Aylands School Durants School Oaktree School Russet House School Waverley School West Lea School

Former	Enfield-chantry school The Gladys Aylward School Minchenden Grammar School

v t e London Borough of Enfield

Districts	Arnos Grove Botany Bay Bowes Park Brimsdown Bulls Cross Bush Hill Park Clay Hill Cockfosters Crews Hill Edmonton Enfield Chase Enfield Highway Enfield Island Village Enfield Lock Enfield Town Enfield Wash Forty Hill Freezywater Grange Park Hadley Wood Lower Edmonton New Southgate Oakwood Palmers Green Picketts Lock Ponders End Southgate Upper Edmonton Winchmore Hill World's End

Attractions	Forty Hall and Gardens Millfield Theatre and Arts Centre Capel Manor Myddelton House Gardens Chickenshed Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture Whitewebbs Museum of Transport

Parks and open spaces	Arnos Park Broomfield Park Durants Park Oakwood Park Pymmes Park Trent Country Park Whitewebbs Park

Constituencies	Edmonton Enfield North Enfield Southgate

Tube and rail stations	Arnos Grove Brimsdown Bush Hill Park Cockfosters Crews Hill Edmonton Green Enfield Chase Enfield Lock Enfield Town Gordon Hill Grange Park Hadley Wood Oakwood Palmers Green Ponders End Silver Street Southbury Southgate Turkey Street Winchmore Hill

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