Town Park is a surviving fragment of the pre-Elizabethan Old Park estate of Enfield Manor. Part of the estate later became the estates of Chase Side House, which in the 19th century had fine pleasure gardens, and Chase Park. In 1894 Enfield Urban District Council purchased some of the estate lands and Town Park was laid out and opened in 1902, a bathing lake opened in 1905. Along the southern boundary runs part of the New River Loop, separating the public park from the private golf course.