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The Edgware Road was originally a Roman road, which the Saxons called Watling Street. It may be that Burnt Oak was the location of a small settlement known to have been on the Edgware Road called Sulloniacis. In 1971 an excavation of Roman rubbish pits in the garden of a house in Thirlby Road found coins dating from the 3rd and 4th centuries. Unfortunately as the area was completely built over during the 1920s and 1930s it is unlikely that we will learn much more.

The Chipping Barnet Town Centre Strategy goes beyond the adopted Spires Planning Framework  in focusing on the wider issues facing the town centre including:

Reusable nappies If you are a parent living in the London Borough of Barnet with children who are less than 18 months old, or are a parent-to-be, you can save money and help the environment by applying for a free reusable nappy voucher worth £70 through Real Nappies for London.

We have surveyed how people drive in Barnet, allowing us to identify  traffic hotspots. As a result, we will be monitoring them with CCTV to help improve safety, keep traffic moving and reduce air pollution on the borough’s roads. Here are three places in Barnet we will be monitoring for driving offences: Zigzags at Deansbrook Infants School

You may be able to claim benefits to help you if you if you are looking after a child with special support needs, including:

Partnership libraries are part of Barnet Council’s recently announced plans to reshape the library service that will, amongst other things, keep all 14 libraries open, while delivering the savings required by the Council. Out of these 14 libraries, four will be community managed as part of the overall library network.

Tragically, people sometimes die as a result of domestic abuse. When this happens, the law says that professionals involved in the case must conduct a multi-agency review of what happened so that we can identify what needs to be changed to reduce the risk of it happening again in the future.

Maps available at the Local Studies Centre A selection of historical maps of what is now the London Borough of Barnet is available at the Local Studies Centre, and includes:  Nineteenth century first editions circa 1864 and 1896 Twentieth century circa 1914, 1935, 1950s and later editions View first editions circa 1863-1874 and subsequent editions of Ordnance Surveys of all local areas and the wider United Kingdom.

The earliest documentary reference to Frith Manor dates to circa 1500, as a sub manor. It had control of lands not only in Mill Hill, but also in North Finchley. There was a family called Burton living here by the reign of Henry VIII, and Burtonhole Farm is mentioned from at least the early 17th century. It is still a working farm.

Before the railway line was built there was no New Barnet. In order to build the railway the Great Northern Company had to buy land from different farms and estates. The owner of one of these estates through which the line had to pass, known as Lyonsdown, forced the railway company to purchase the whole of the estate rather then just the fields which were needed. The railway company sold the rest of the Lyonsdown estate to The British Land Company in 1850.