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Revision as of 07:14, 11 July 2010
Oakleigh Park is a place in the London Borough of Barnet. It adjoins Whetstone, and is often regarded as part of it. However it has its own identity and its own railway station.
The principal road is Oakleigh Road North. Turnings off this road include Oakleigh Park North, Oakleigh Avenue and Oakleigh Park South. There is also a small shopping parade on Netherlands Road just to the north of the railway station. The name is a relatively modern invention, possibly influenced by Oakwood.
Geography
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Transport links
Bus
Transport for London bus route 383 stops directly outside Oakleigh Park railway station, as well as operating a Hail and Ride service along Netherlands Road and Oakleigh Park North/Athenaeum Road. Buses run towards Barnet (the Spires) or towards Woodside Park tube station, every 30 minutes Mondays to Saturdays except late evenings. There is currently no service on this route on Sundays or public holidays.
Railway station
Tube station
Nearby:
Schools
Primary
- All Saints
- Sacred Heart
The Betjeman connection
In John Betjeman’s poem, ‘The Outer Suburbs’ (1932), there is a reference to Oakleigh Park as ‘Oakley Park’: ‘The weary walk from Oakley Park/Through the soft suburban dark’. This is not a spelling that occurs elsewhere, but may be personal idiosyncrasy, rather than a simple mistake, given that Betjeman was, at the time, a schoolmaster in the area. (It could possibly be childhood association. The Betjemans became acquainted with a family called Oakley during holidays in Cornwall.[1] The person universally associated with that name – the American sharp-shooter, Annie Oakley, who died in 1926 – also spelt her name thus.)
References
- ^ Hillier, Bevis (1988). Young Betjeman. John Murray Publishers Ltd. ISBN 978-0719545313.
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