Hertfordshire Genealogy: Places: South Mimms & Potters Bar

South Mimms & Potters Bar

Adjacent Parishes to South Mimms (as was): Chipping Barnet, Enfield (Middx), Monken Hadley (Middx), North Mimms, Ridge

South Mimms was in the Barnet Union

South Mimms Church, Middlesex
For the Beauties of England & Wales
Engraved by Elizth Bryne from a drawing by J P Neale
Published by John Harris, St Pauls Churchyard, London, June 1, 1815

The boundary between Hertfordshire and Middlesex is complex in this area and I don't claim to have the full picture. However the following appear to be the key points.

The historical parish is South Mimms, in Middlesex, in the Edmonton Hundred, with a small part in the Cashio Hundred of Hertfordshire. The parish church was St Giles.

There were two main centres of population - South Mimms and Potters Bar. In 1835 Potters Bar became a separate parish (with its own registers), the parish church is St Mary Virgin & All Saints.

In 1904/5 the parish of Monken Hadley transferred to Hertfordshire and the part of the South Mimms parish that had been in Cashio Hundred transferred to Monken Hadley.

St John's Church, Potters Bar - posted 1909

In 1965 South Mimms and Potters Bar transferred from Middlesex to Hertfordshire, and Barnet (and Hadley) transferred to Middlesex (now the Borough of Barnet).

Because the parishes of South Mimms and Potters Bar are newcomers to Hertfordshire they are not covered by reference works relating to the history or genealogy of the county. Under normal circumstances they fall outside the scope of this web site because I am unable to easily access the necessary Middlesex-oriented publications.

The Parish registers are held at HALS

Relevant books include The Story of Potters Bar and South Mimms, edited by Frederick Britain and published by the Potters Bar Urban District Council in 1966.

Some Web Sites from Google (Link addresses may change)

St Giles, South Mimms (picture)
South Mimms & Potters Bar District History
Potters Bar Museum

Quick links to extra postcard images. click on thumbnail picture
St Giles South Mymms	St Giles South Mymms