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Turkey Street

Turkey Street proper noun: a neighbourhood in the borough of Enfield, Greater London, England, historically in Middlesex, on a road of the same name (OS grid ref TQ3598).

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Proper noun

Turkey Street

  1. A neighbourhood in the borough of Enfield, Greater London, England, historically in Middlesex, on a road of the same name (OS grid ref TQ3598).

Origin of Turkey Street

First recorded as Tokestreete in 1441 when it was a hamlet, thus not named after the country or the bird. It was shown as a hamlet on an OS map published in 1945.

Questions about Turkey Street

What does Turkey Street mean?
Turkey Street means a neighbourhood in the borough of Enfield, Greater London, England, historically in Middlesex, on a road of the same name (OS grid ref TQ3598).
What part of speech is Turkey Street?
Turkey Street is a proper noun.

Words near Turkey Street in the dictionary

  1. turkey shoots
  2. turkey slap
  3. turkey slaps
  4. Turkey stone
  5. Turkey stones
  6. Turkey Street
  7. turkey tail
  8. turkey tails
  9. Turkey teeth
  10. turkey tick
  11. turkey ticks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Turkey Street (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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