London Borough of Barnet
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The London Borough of Barnet [ˈbɑːnɪt] is a borough of London, located in the north of the city. It was formed from the Municipal Borough of Finchley, the Municipal Borough of Hendon and the Friern Barnet Urban District in the county of Middlesex, and the East Barnet Urban District and the Barnet Urban District in the county of Hertfordshire when the Greater London administrative region was created in 1965.
Barnet is twinned with the Berlin district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg and the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein in North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as with towns in France (Chaville, Le Raincy) and Israel (Ramat Gan). The Missionary Society of St. Joseph of Mill Hill, founded by Herbert Cardinal Vaughan, is named after the College of St. Joseph, located in the Mill Hill district. Barnet is home to one of the city's most exclusive residential areas, The Bishop's Avenue. The Colindale area is home to the British Library's Newspaper Library, which is the largest collection of periodicals in Europe, with over 50,000 continuously sourced newspapers and magazines.
In the borough of Golders Green is Golders Green Crematorium, the first crematorium in London when it opened in 1902 and one of the oldest crematoria in Britain. Opposite, on the other side of Hoop Lane, is Golders Green Jewish Cemetery, where Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, and Leo Baeck, among others, are buried.
The population in 2011 was 64.1% White, 18.5% Asian and 7.7% Black; 4.9% reported belonging to another ethnic group and 4.8% to more than one. Barnet has one of the highest Chinese populations in the UK at 2.3% and the highest Jewish population at 15.5% of the population.
Districts
- Arkley
- Barnet
- Brunswick Park
- Brockley Hill
- burnt oak
- Childs Hill
- Church End
- Colney Hatch
- Colindale
- Cricklewood
- East Barnet
- East Finchley
- Edgware
- Finchley
- Freezing Barnet
- Golders Green
- Grahame Park
- The Hale
- Hampstead Garden Suburb
- Hendon
- High Barnet
- The Hyde
- Mill Hill
- Mill Hill East
- Monken Hadley
- New Barnet
- New Southgate
- North Finchley
- Oakleigh Park
- Osidge
- Temple Fortune
- Totteridge
- West Hendon
- Whetstone
- Woodside Park
Personalities
- Bob Anderson (1931-1967), racing driver
- Peter Banks (1947-2013), rock guitarist
- John Bercow (* 1963), politician and speaker of the British House of Commons
- Helena Bonham Carter (* 1966), actress
- Emma Bunton (* 1976), singer
- Antony Costa (* 1981), singer
- Raffaello Degruttola (* 1972), actor
- Mark Fleischmann (* 1972), actor
- William of Gloucester (1941-1972), member of the British Royal Family
- Gary Grant (* 1977), actor
- Malcolm Griffiths (1941-2021), jazz trombonist
- Ian Grob (* 1952), car racing driver
- John Hadley (1682-1744), astronomer and mathematician
- Ashley Hutchings (* 1945), folk rock singer and bassist
- Guy Jonson (1913-2009), pianist and music educator
- Gordon Langford (1930-2017), arranger and composer
- Elihu Lauterpacht CBE (1928-2017), international lawyer
- Jane March (* 1973), actress
- Mark McCammon (1978), Barbadian football player
- Elaine Paige (* 1948), musical singer
- Archie Panjabi (* 1972), actress
- John Parr (1898-1914), soldier of the First World War
- Cyril Paul (1903-1984), car racing driver
- David Piper (* 1930), car racing driver
- Cicely Saunders (1918-2005), physician
- Marie Espérance von Schwartz (1818-1899), writer
- Percy Selwyn-Clarke (1893-1976), colonial official, governor of the Seychelles
- Martin Speake (* 1958), jazz musician
- Steven Stapleton (* 1957), musician
- Amy Winehouse (1983-2011), soul singer
Also:
- Hendon Mob, a group of poker players...
