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ABOUT BARNET

High Barnet or Chipping Barnet is a town in the London Borough of Barnet. It is a suburban development located 10 miles (17 km) north north-west of Charing Cross.The tower of Barnet parish church - St John the Baptist - at the top of Barnet Hill claims to be the highest point between itself and the Ural Mountains to the east. However, the same can be said of numerous other points Before the building of the Barnet bypass, Barnet Hill was a major hill on the Great North Road. High Barnet tube station is located at the northern end of the Northern Line.The town was the site of the Battle of Barnet in 1471, where Yorkist troops led by King Edward IV killed the rebellious "Kingmaker" Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and Warwick's brother, John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu.It is the site of an ancient and well-known horse fair, hence the Cockney rhyming slang of "Barnet" for "hair". The fair goes back to 1588 when Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to the Lord of the Manor of Barnet the right to hold a twice yearly fair.Chipping Barnet was a civil parish of Hertfordshire and formed part of the Barnet Urban District from 1894. It was abolished in 1965 and its former area was transferred to Greater London.In 1801 the parish had a population of 1,258 and covered an area of 1,440 acres. By 1901 the parish was reduced to 380 acres and had a population of 2,893. In 1951 the population was 7,062.In Saxon Times the site was part of an extensive wood called Southaw, belonging to the Abbey of St Albans. The name of the town appears in early deeds as Bergnet, the Saxon word Bergnet signifies a little hill, monticulus. Its elevated position is also indicated in its alternate name of High Barnet, which it bears in many old books and maps, and which the railway company restored. It is the belief of the older natives the "Barnet stands on the highest ground betwixt London and York."

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