London Borough of Barnet
London Borough of Barnet | |
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status | London Borough |
region | Greater London |
Administrative headquarters | Southgate |
surface | 86.74 km² |
Residents | 392.140 |
was standing | 2018 |
ONS code | 00AA |
Website | www.barnet.gov.uk |
The London Borough of Barnet [ ˈbɑːnɪt ] is a borough of London in the north of the city. When the Greater London Administrative Region was established in 1965, it emerged from the Municipal Borough of Finchley , the Municipal Borough of Hendon and the Friern Barnet Urban District in the County of Middlesex and from the East Barnet Urban District and the Barnet Urban District in the County of Hertfordshire .
Barnet maintains u. a. a town partnership with the Berlin district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg and the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as with cities in France ( Chaville , Le Raincy ) and Israel ( Ramat Gan ). After the College St. Joseph located in the district of Mill Hill , the Mission Society of St. Joseph founded by Herbert Cardinal Vaughan . Named Joseph of Mill Hill . Barnet is home to one of the city 's most exclusive residential areas, The Bishop's Avenue . In the district of Colindale is the Newspaper Library of the British Library , with over 50,000 ongoing related newspapers and magazines, the largest magazine collection in Europe is.
In the Golders Green district is the Golders Green Crematorium , the first crematorium in London when it opened in 1902 and one of the oldest crematoriums in Great Britain. Opposite, on the other side of Hoop Lane, is the Golders Green Jewish Cemetery. a. Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading , and Leo Baeck are buried.
The 2011 population consisted of 64.1% white, 18.5% Asian and 7.7% black; 4.9% said they belong to another ethnic group and 4.8% said they belong to more than one ethnic group. Barnet has one of the highest Chinese and 15.5% Jewish populations in the UK at 2.3% .
Districts
- Arkley
- Barnet
- Brunswick Park
- Brockley Hill
- Burnt Oak
- Childs Hill
- Church End
- Colney Hatch
- Colindale
- Cricklewood
- East Barnet
- East Finchley
- Edgware
- Finchley
- Friern 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 (born 1966), actress
- Emma Bunton (born 1976), singer
- Antony Costa (* 1981), singer
- Mark Fleischmann (* 1972), actor
- William of Gloucester (1941–1972), member of the British royal family
- Ian Grob (* 1952), racing car driver
- John Hadley (1682–1744), astronomer and mathematician
- Ashley Hutchings (* 1945), folk rock singer and bassist
- Guy Jonson (1913–2009), pianist and music teacher
- Gordon Langford (1930–2017), arranger and composer
- Elihu Lauterpacht CBE (1928–2017), international lawyer
- Jane March (born 1973), actress
- Mark McCammon (1978), Barbadian football player
- Elaine Paige (* 1948), musical singer
- Archie Panjabi (born 1972), actress
- John Parr (1898–1914), First World War soldier
- Cyril Paul (1903–1984), racing car driver
- David Piper (* 1930), racing car driver
- Cicely Saunders (1918-2005), doctor
- Marie Espérance von Schwartz (1818–1899), writer
- Percy Selwyn-Clarke (1893–1976), Colonial Administrator, Governor of the Seychelles
- Martin Speake (* 1958), jazz musician
- Steven Stapleton (born 1957), musician
- Amy Winehouse (1983-2011), soul singer
also:
- Hendon Mob , a group of poker players
Web links
- Barnet Borough Council (district administration)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ N , 0 ° 12 ′ W