Totteridge
Adjacent Parishes: Chipping Barnet, Finchley (Middlesex), Hendon (Middlesex)
It is in Broadwater Hundred and Barnet Union
It is no longer in Hertfordshire
From Dury & Andrews 1766 map of Hertfordshire
Totteridge, on the Middlesex border, is 1 mile west from the Station (G.N.R). Richard Baxter lived here for a short time. The neighbourhood is well wooded and very pleasing to the eye. The church, on the hill-top, dates only from 1790; but the site was occupied by an earlier structure. The memorials are of no historic interest; but near the enormous yew tree in the churchyard stands the tomb of the first Lord Cottenham (d 1851). Near by, too, lies Sir Lucas Pepys, physician to George III (d 1830).
Totteridge Park, west from the village, was the residence of Baron Bunsen, and of the above-mentioned Lord Cottenham; the large plain structure in which they lived, recently in part rebuilt, was erected about a century ago, taking the place of the fine old manor house, for some generations the home of the Lee family.
At Copped Hall, near the church, the late Cardinal Manning was born in 1808.
Hertfordshire Little Guide 1903
Totteridge Church and the Old Yew Tree
Postcard published by Gordon Smith, 15 Stroud Green Road, N.
and posted in 1908
Book: A Short History of Totteridge - includes parish registers to 1837
Totteridge Parish Church
Published by C. Smith, Allerton Road, N. Undivided back posted
in 1903
Census: 1861: Parts of area included in Middlesex It includes Totteridge Park School - with a long list of boarding pupils.
The Lower Green, Totteridge
Postcard published by Gordon Smith, 15 Stroud Green Road, N,
and posted 1908
ON THE WEB
There is a very useful document - Totteridge Conservation Area: Character Appraisal Statement - at http://www.barnet.gov.uk/totteridge.pdf which provides detailed maps of the old parts of Totteridge and some background history. It is a planning document produced by the Barnet Council.
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Page updated March 2007