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Tag: Barnet

Willow Drive, EN5

31 October 2022 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Laid out over fields off the Manor Road in 1938. There was a willow tree on the corner…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Barnet, High Barnet, streets named after plants, streets named after trees, Underhill

Moxon Street, EN5

27 September 2022 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Thomas Moxon (died September 22, 1775) was an apothecary and surgeon who operated from the Old Assembly Rooms…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Barnet, High Barnet, streets named after surgeons

Nan Clark’s Lane, NW7

23 August 2022 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Apparently named after a late-17thCentury pub landlady Nan Clark, who was murdered by her lover, or possibly her…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Barnet, Crime, Hendon Park, highwood Hill, Mill Hill, Murder

Woodside Grove, N12

21 August 2022 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Literally a hamlet or farmland next to woodland, although as early spellings of the area reveal this would…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Barnet, field name, Finchley Wood

Woodside Lane, N12

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Place Name Literally a hamlet or farmland next to woodland, although as early spellings of the area reveal this would…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Barnet, field name, Finchley Wood

Finchley Way, N3

5 July 2020 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Directional, leads to Finchley. Thought to be named after the birds that nested in the grove or wood…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Anglo-Saxon, Barnet, Old English, streets named after birds, streets named after places, streets named after woods, West Finchley

Crooked Usage, N3

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Place Name This unusual name is thought to date back to Anglo-Saxon times when a usage was a strip of…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Agricultural, agriculture, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon street name, Barnet, Finchley and Golders Green, Finchley Church End, unusual street name

Belmont Avenue, EN4

12 May 2020 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Named after the residence of the antiquarian Lord William Howard (December 19, 1563 – October 7, 1640), sometimes…

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Posted in: Barnet, Uncategorized Filed under: Barnet, East Barnet, East Barnet ward, names from Norman French, streets from 1930s, streets named after houses

Beech Hill, EN4

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Place Name The name derives from Beech Hill Park whose northern boundary the street forms. The park was originally the…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Barnet, Cockfosters, Hadley Wood, streets named after buildings

Barnet Road, EN4

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Place Name Directional connecting Elstree with Chipping Barnet and onwards to East Barnet and Friern Barnet. A great wood once…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Barnet, High Barnet, Old English

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