Bruce Grove is a ward in Tottenham

Tottenham

Tottenham is an area of the London Borough of Haringey, England, situated north north east of Charing Cross.-Toponymy:Tottenham is believed to have been named after Tota, a farmer, whose hamlet was mentioned in the Domesday Book; hence Tota's hamlet became Tottenham...

, enclosed by Lordship Recreation Ground

Lordship Recreation Ground

Lordship Recreation Ground is a public park in Tottenham, London Borough of Haringey.It is over 20 hectares in size. Access is from Lordship Lane and from opposite Downhills Park in Downhills Park Road. It stretches approximately 750m north-south. The River Moselle runs through the park from west...

, Lordship Lane

Lordship Lane (Haringey)

Lordship Lane connects Wood Green with Tottenham High Road . It lies in the London Borough of Haringey and forms part of the A109 road.-History:...

, Philip Lane, and the High Road.

The Bruce Grove area of the Tottenham High Road

Tottenham High Road

Tottenham High Road is the main thoroughfare through the district of Tottenham, in the London Borough of Haringey. It runs from Edmonton in the North to Stamford Hill in the South . It follows, for the whole of its length, the course of the erstwhile Roman Road, Ermine Street...

 has received a £1m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to restore the historic Victorian

Victorian architecture

The term Victorian architecture refers collectively to several architectural styles employed predominantly during the middle and late 19th century. The period that it indicates may slightly overlap the actual reign, 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901, of Queen Victoria. This represents the British and...

 and Edwardian buildings to their original grandeur under the Bruce Grove Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) project.

Nearby Bruce Castle

Bruce Castle

Bruce Castle is a Grade I listed 16th-century manor house in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, London. It is named after the House of Bruce who formerly owned the land on which it is built. Believed to stand on the site of an earlier building, about which little is known, the current house is one of the...

 was named after Robert the Bruce of Scottish history.
When Robert became King of Scotland, Edward I

Edward I of England

Edward I , also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The first son of Henry III, Edward was involved early in the political intrigues of his father's reign, which included an outright rebellion by the English barons...

 seized his English Estates, including the area then known as Bruce Manor.

The area is served by Bruce Grove railway station

Bruce Grove railway station

Bruce Grove railway station in the centre of Tottenham was originally a station on the Stoke Newington & Edmonton Railway which opened on 22 July 1872. It is part of the Seven Sisters branch of the Lea Valley Lines. The station is not far from Bruce Castle, and takes its name from Bruce Grove, a...

.

The neighbourhood dates back further to Roman times with Ermine Street

Ermine Street

Ermine Street is the name of a major Roman road in England that ran from London to Lincoln and York . The Old English name was 'Earninga Straete' , named after a tribe called the Earningas, who inhabited a district later known as Armingford Hundred, around Arrington, Cambridgeshire and Royston,...

 (High Rd) and to medieval times with the Swan Public House but most of the houses were built in the late Victorian/ Edwardian Era following the building of the Great Eastern Railway

Great Eastern Railway

The Great Eastern Railway was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia...

 Enfield Branch

Lea Valley Lines

The Lea Valley Lines are three commuter lines and two branches in North East London, so named because they run along the valley of the River Lea...

. Bruce Grove the road has some nice Georgian architecture and a very pretty Almshouse

Almshouse

Almshouses are charitable housing provided to enable people to live in a particular community...

 - Edmanson’s Close (1869).

Shop and building owners will receive grants to restore historical architectural elements such as shop fronts, awning, domes and columns on the faces of the buildings. New heritage street lighting will be installed and the buildings will be cleaned and repaired.

7 Bruce Grove features an English Heritage

English Heritage

English Heritage . is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...

 blue plaque

Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person or event, serving as a historical marker....

 to Luke Howard

Luke Howard

Luke Howard FRS was a British manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science...

 (1772–1864), the meteorologist who named the clouds in 1802.