Find Gilpin’s Bell – Edmonton

Not far from a famous football stadium is the Gilpin’s Bell, a large pub that is packed on match days. And further up the road is a less famous stone bell.Gilpin’s Bell is named after John Gilpin, the subject of a comic ballad penned in 1782 by William Cowper, entitled The Diverting History of John Gilpin.
Gilpin was said to be a wealthy draper from Cheapside in London, who owned land at Olney, Buckinghamshire, near where Cowper lived. Gilpin’s spouse decides she and her husban