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Tag: East Barnet ward

Chestnut Grove, EN4

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Place Name Laid out on the gardens of the Little Grove estate. According to local historian Doreen Willcocks, in Barnet’s…

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Posted in: Barnet Filed under: Barnet, East Barnet, East Barnet ward, Littlegrove estate, streets from 1930s, streets named after trees

Cedar Avenue, EN4

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Place Name According to local historian Doreen Willcocks, in Barnet’s History in its Street Names’ (1994), “some people remember a…

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Posted in: Barnet Filed under: Barnet, East Barnet, East Barnet ward, streets named after trees

Brookside South, EN4

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Place Name This road was laid out in the mid-20thCentury on land that had been part of the Ferney House…

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Posted in: Barnet Filed under: Barnet, East Barnet, East Barnet ward, streets named after rivers

Brookside, EN4

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Place Name Takes its name from the nearby Pymmes Brook. The brook itself is named after William Pymme, a local…

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Posted in: Barnet Filed under: Barnet, East Barnet, East Barnet ward, streets named after rivers

Brookhill Road, EN4

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Place Name Previously Brook Hill Road. It was developed across farmland sometime in the late 19thCentury. The former Brook Hill…

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Posted in: Barnet Filed under: Barnet, East Barnet, East Barnet ward, streets named after rivers

Brookhill Close, EN4

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Place Name The former Brook Hill or Brookhill Farm lay on Cat Hill, on the eastern slopes of the valley…

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Posted in: Barnet Filed under: East Barnet, East Barnet ward, streets named after rivers

Berkeley Crescent, EN4

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Place Name Sir Robert Berkeley (1584 – August 5, 1656) was a judge and MP who owned Church Hill House,…

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Posted in: Barnet Filed under: Barnet, Charles I, Civil War, East Barnet, East Barnet ward, streets named after people who have been in prison

Beeston Road, EN4

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Place Name Thought to be named after Edward Beeston Long (March 1, 1763 – September 25,1825), the Lord of Barnet Manor,…

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Posted in: Barnet Filed under: Barnet, Barnet Manor, East Barnet, East Barnet ward, slavery

Barons Gate, EN4

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Place Name Generally thought to be a reference to the barons who clashed near here in the Battle of Barnet,…

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Posted in: Barnet Filed under: Barnet, East Barnet, East Barnet ward, War of the Roses

Baring Road, EN4

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Place Name Charles Edward Baring Young (March 19, 1850 – September 22, 1928) was an English educationalist and Conservative MP.…

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Posted in: Barnet Filed under: Barnet, East Barnet, East Barnet ward, streets named after Cambridge graduates, streets named after Conservatives, streets named after Eton connection, streets named after MPs, streets named after schools, streets named after Tories

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