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Bowes Park N22 takes its name after the Bowes Manor or Bowes Farm that appears on the Ordinance Survey maps from the 19th century. The manor belonged to the Bowes family. In the 13th century, a man named John de Arcubus lived in the area. Arcubus is the Latin word for bow.
Myddleton Road is named after Sir Hugh Myddleton. He was a Welsh entrepreneur who is remembered for funding the construction of the New River waterway.
The inventor of the AVOmeter, Donald MacCadie, had a shop in Bowes Park N22 where he worked while developing the measuring instrument.
Edgar Wright the director of 1994 Spaced sitcom was a resident of the area. Myddleton Road, the main street, is featured two times in the show.