EAST BARNET

Is a small village in Cashio hundred, Barnet union deanery, and county court district, diocese of Rochester, and archdeaconry of St. Alban's; it is in the northern metropolitan postal district, 10 miles from London, 2 south-east from Chipping Barnet, and three quarters of a mile south­east from Barnet station. The village is beautifully situated in a valley, about one mile cast of the high road to St. Alban's, bounded on the south by Southgate, and on the east by Enfield Chase, which extends from Enfield in Middlesex. Oak Hill, the seat of Lord Faversham, is situated on an eminence. East Barnet, although so near the metropolis, is particularly quiet and retired. There is a considerable business done in coals at the station. The living is a rectory, with the curacy of Chipping Barnet, annual value £1,042, with residence, in the gift of the Crown. The church has nave, chancel, porch, and tower; a memorial window was erected in 1858 to the Wyatt family. The register dates from 1553. There is a National school for girls. The area in acres is 1,601; the population in 1861 was 663. In the immediate vicinity of the railway station are some neat residences, which receive an abundant supply of pure water from an artesian well, sunk by the Freehold Land Society in 1857.

GREEN HILL GROVE is one mile west.

POST OFFICE:- Charles Selwood, postmaster. Letters received through the Whetstone post office, arrive at 8 a.m., 12 noon, and 7.30 p.m.; dispatched 8.30 a.m., 12.25, and 3.45 p.m. The nearest money-order office is at Chipping Barnet.

PUBLIC ESTABLISHIMENTS:-

New Barnet Gas Works - William Chilton Humphrys, manager,

The Boys' Home - Church farm; Robert James Shaw, secretary and superintendent.

Danks Directory, 1863

East Barnet Lane

Posted 1905

Published G. Smith, 15 Stroud Green Road, N

No 751

St Mary Virgin, East Barnet

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