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Tag: East Barnet ward

Church Hill Road, EN4

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Place Name Believed to follow one of the oldest routes in East Barnet, with accounts suggesting that the hill on…

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Posted in: Barnet Filed under: Barnet, East Barnet, East Barnet ward, street named after a church

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

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