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The 'London Borough of Barnet' is a London borough in North London and forms part of Outer London. It borders Hertfordshire to the north and other London boroughs: Harrow and Brent to the west, Camden and Haringey to the south-east and Enfield to the east.

Contents

Districts

History

Places of interest

Parks and open spaces

Sport

Demographics of Barnet

Education

Transport

Tube

Train

Bus

Road

Council

Twinning

See also

External links

Districts

Main articles: List of places in the London Borough of Barnet

The pattern of settlement is somewhat diverse. To the north of the borough is Barnet, also known as Chipping Barnet, High Barnet and Barnet Town, which is a middle class suburban development. Also in the north are the low-density districts of Edgware, Totteridge, Whetstone and Mill Hill.
Coming further south the development becomes steadily more intensive around the suburbs of Cricklewood, Colindale, Hendon and Finchley. Golders Green is renowned for its Jewish minority ethnic population and at the very south of the borough is Hampstead Garden Suburb.

History

The borough was formed under the London Government Act 1963 in 1965 from the Municipal Borough of Finchley, Municipal Borough of Hendon and the Friern Barnet Urban District of Middlesex and the East Barnet Urban District and Barnet Urban District of Hertfordshire.
Individual articles describe the history and development of the districts of Church End, East Finchley, Edgware, Golders Green, Mill Hill and North Finchley.

Places of interest

★ Royal Air Force Museum

★ Brent Cross Shopping Centre

★ College Farm

★ Middlesex University (Hendon Campus)

★ Hendon Police College

Parks and open spaces

Main articles: Barnet parks and open spaces

The borough has a large number of parks and open spaces. The Borough also has controls five Local Nature Reserves (LNR), and is jointly responsible with the London Borough of Brent for the Welsh Harp reservoir. In addition there are large areas taken over by cemeteries and golf courses; part of Hampstead Heath; as well as smaller recreation grounds.

Sport

The borough is home to a professional football club, Barnet F.C. and Barnet Copthall leisure complex.

Demographics of Barnet

According to the 2001 census the borough has a population of 314,564 though the most recent ONS projection for 2007 is '338, 600'. 67% of householders are owner-occupiers. The borough has the highest percentage (14.8%) of Jewish residents of any local government area in the United Kingdom. Many more people in Barnet have some Jewish ancestry, but don't consider themselves Jewish.

Education

Transport

Tube

The borough is served by both branches of the Northern Line of the London Underground.

★ High Barnet

★ Totteridge and Whetstone

★ Woodside Park

★ West Finchley

★ Mill Hill East

★ Finchley Central

★ East Finchley

★ Edgware

★ Burnt Oak

★ Colindale

★ Hendon Central

★ Brent Cross

★ Golders Green
The Piccadilly Line skirts around the north eastern edge of the Barnet. Three stations are close to the borough border.

★ Cockfosters

★ Southgate

★ Arnos Grove

Train

National Rail services in Barnet are operated by First Capital Connect on two routes.
Thameslink Route

★ Mill Hill Broadway

★ Hendon

★ Cricklewood
Great Northern Route

★ New Barnet

★ Oakleigh Park

★ New Southgate

Bus

The borough is served by a large number of bus routes managed by Transport for London.

Road

The following major roads run through the borough:

★ M1

★ A1

★ A5

★ A41

★ A406 (North Circular)

Council

The borough is divided into 21 wards, each with 3 councillors. Following the Barnet local government election on May 4, 2006 the Conservative party gained a working majority and full control of the council.
The current political composition of the Council is:

★ Conservative: 37

★ Labour: 20

★ Liberal Democrat: 6
For administrative purposes, such as planning committees, the borough is divided into three areas. They match the respective parliamentary seats and each contains seven council wards.

★ North (Chipping Barnet) - ''Brunswick Park, Coppetts, East Barnet, High Barnet, Oakleigh, Totteridge, Underhill''

★ South (Finchley and Golders Green) - ''Childs Hill, East Finchley, Finchley Church End, Garden Suburb, Golders Green, West Finchley, Woodhouse''

★ West (Hendon) - ''Burnt Oak, Colindale, Edgware, Hale, Hendon, Mill Hill, West Hendon''

Twinning

★ Barnet, United States

★ Chaville, France

★ Jinja, Uganda

★ Le Raincy, France

★ Montclair, United States

★ Morphou, Cyprus

★ Ramat Gan, Israel

★ Siegen-Wittgenstein, Germany

★ Tempelhof, Germany

See also

★ Hampstead Garden Suburb

External links

★ Barnet Council

★ Barnet Borough Arts Council