New Enfield Croquet Club badge is now available, suitable for shirts, t-shirts, tops, jerseys, hats or anything else you may fancy. This embroidered badge can be ironed or sewn on - contact Brian for further details. Price £2 each.
Plain white baseball style hats, suitable to take the Club badge are also available from Brian price £4 each.

The above design has now been adopted as our Club logo and the strange creature shown upon it, seen holding a croquet mallet, is called an 'enfield'. Now most Enfield rate-payers will be familiar with the Enfield logo because it appears on all the Enfield Council's correspondance including numerious undesirable  bills. The 'enfield' is seen on Enfield Council's letter heads, vehicles, website, signage, notices, etc., invariably n red, and it forms the corporate logo for Enfield Borough Council. But what you may not know is why it is there.


The 'enfield' is a mythological heraldic creature that first appeared on Irish coat of arms, initially on those arms belonging to the Irish families of Kelly and O'Kelly. This mythical beast is said to have protected fallen chieftains' bodies for proper burial. Of all the creatures in the heraldic menagerie the enfield is possibly the most bizarre and is also seemingly one of the rarest of heraldic animals. There are various descriptions of the creature itself but the concensus seems to suggest the head of a fox, the chest of a hound, the talons of an eagle, the body of a lion and the hindquarters and tail of a wolf. Given the local wildlife to be found in Bush Hill Park the fox aspect, we thought, was particually appropriate for our croquet club.

The Urban District of Enfield first adopted the enfield on the coat of arms granted them in in 1946. It also features on the official coat of arms for the Borough of Enfield granted in 1966. And so it was that the current borough logo derived from that particular aspect of the Borough's coat of arms. The only other place it is known to be found, outside of Ireland, is on the arms of another district called Enfield which is in Port Adelaide, Australia..... and as Michael Cain would probably say ' not many people know that'.

As you may determine our 'enfield' is based more upon those used as heraldic symbols rather than the Borough's official logo. And rather than deploying the borough's red enfield ours is green on a yellow background because it seemed altogether more appropriate for a Croquet Club and also because we really didn't want any Club members associating our Club logo with their rates bill.

Brian Dawes - May 2010

At the first meeting of the New Committee following Basil's retirement from the post as Chairman we were fortunate indeed to have our Club Captain volunteer to take on the job. I believe his exact words were that he would 'take it on for a year'. However those of us in the know are all hoping to be able to persuade him to remain in the post for a whole lot longer than that. Here's thanking Ken for taking on the task and wishing him all the very best in his new additional role.