Friern Barnet Urban District
Friern Barnet | |
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Local Government District (1883–1894) Urban District (1894–1965) | |
Friern Barnet within Middlesex in 1961 | |
Area | |
• 1855 | 1,292 acres (5.228km²) |
• 1874 | 1,303 acres (5.273km²) |
• 1899 | 1,304 acres (5.277km²) |
• 1914 | 1,304 acres (5.277km²) |
Area transferred | |
• 1 April 1934 | 59 acres: from Finchley UD (29) Hornsey UD (4) Southgate UD (11) Wood Green UD (15) |
• 1 April 1934 | 23 acres: to Finchley UD (18) Hornsey UD (1) Southgate UD (4) |
Population | |
• 1851 | 974 |
• 1861 | 1,335 |
• 1871 | 4,347 |
• 1881 | 6,424 |
• 1891 | 9,173 |
• 1901 | 11,566 |
• 1911 | 14,924 |
History | |
• Preceded by | Barnet Poor Law Union |
• Origin | Local Government Act 1858 |
• Created | 17 December 1883 |
• Abolished | 31 March 1965 |
• Succeeded by | London Borough of Barnet |
Status | Urban District (1894-1965) |
Government | Friern Barnet Local Board (1883-1894) Friern Barnet Urban District Council (1894-1965) |
• HQ | Parkhurst House, Friern Barnet Road, Friern Barnet (1884-1887) Tudor House, 18 Beaconsfield Road, Friern Barnet (1887-1906) The Priory, Friern Barnet (1906-1941) Friern Barnet Town Hall (1941-1965) |
• Motto | RURIS AMATOR (Lover of the country) |
Contained within | |
• County | Middlesex |
• Hundred | Ossulstone |
• Petty sessional division | Highgate |
• County court district | Barnet |
Subdivisions | |
• Type | Wards |
• Units | North, South, Central (1888-1945) North, South, East, West, Central (1945-1965) |
Friern Barnet Urban District was a
Layout and two main settlements
Friern Barnet parish (and later this District) stretched 3 miles (4.8 km) north north-west from the boundary with Hornsey parish (specifically its Muswell Hill part) and was half as wide as long.[8] The parish largely formed a counter-projection into the Chipping Barnet (also known as High Barnet or Barnet)-Totteridge projection of Hertfordshire into Middlesex to its north. In the north its land was the gentle, broad east escarpment above the head of the Dollis Brook rather than others which are higher and have several limbs around Barnet. In its south the land is gradually lower and a nascent brook feeds west to east, Bounds Green brook.
The parish/district had one main road; it was bisected lengthways by (the) High Road, the main road in the area, today the
Until the mid 19th century the ancient parish of Friern Barnet, a depopulated medieval village — the manor house, manor barn, farm and church of which survived, had two tiny developed clusters: Whetstone in the far north and Colney Hatch in the south.
Until 1883 the parish was governed by its
Planned urbanisation
In common with most outer London areas, the vast bulk of housing was built after the coming of the railways and in this case mainly between the 1851 construction of
The statistics in the panel to the right show the population change, accordingly.
References
- ^ "Middlesex County Council". Civic Heraldry of England and Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "Friern Barnet UD". A Vision of Britain. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6 - Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey with Highgate". British History Online. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. [1855. Part 1: Counties & Localities]". Kelly's Directory. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "The Post Office Directory of Middlesex / ed. by E. R. Kelly. [1874]". Kelly's Directory. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "Kelly's Directory of Middlesex, 1899". Kelly's Directory. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "Kelly's Directory of Middlesex, 1914". Kelly's Directory. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ a b c A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton, M A Hicks and R B Pugh, 'Friern Barnet: Introduction', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6 ed. T F T Baker and C R Elrington (London, 1980), pp. 6-15. Part of the Victoria County History collaborative professional historians' project. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol6/pp6-15
- ^ Higginbotham, Peter. "Barnet Workhouse". The Workhouse. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ Annual Report of the Local Government Board. 1884. p. 370. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ Clive's Underground Line Guides - Northern Line, Dates