Potter's Bar
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 42 ′ N , 0 ° 11 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | TL255015 | ||
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| Residents | 21,639 (as of 2011) | ||
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| Post town | POTTERS BAR | ||
| ZIP code section | EN6 | ||
| prefix | 01707 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | North East England | ||
| Shire county | Hertfordshire | ||
| District | Hertsmere | ||
| Civil Parish | Potter's Bar | ||
| British Parliament | Hertsmere | ||
Potters Bar is a town in the English county of Hertfordshire and is located directly on the border with Greater London and on the M25 London ring road .
The city has 21,639 inhabitants (as of 2001) and belongs to the metropolitan area of London. Within the county it is administratively assigned to the district of Hertsmere .
Originally, Potter's Bar was part of Middlesex County . When Greater London was formed in 1965 and Middlesex was dissolved in return, it became the county of Hertfordshire.
Located on the railway line between London's King's Cross Station and York , the city hit the headlines when a railway accident killed 7 and injured 76 on May 10, 2002. One of the injured was the children's book author Nina Bawden , whose husband Austen Kark was killed in the accident.
Trivia
In 1912 the beetle species Aglyptinus agathidioides was discovered in a pond claw nest near Potters Bar . The species is only known from two specimens and has not been seen since. It may be an extinct species or one from North or Central America that was introduced to England by chance.
Town twinning
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Neighborhood Statistics, Office for National Statistics 2011 Census ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/may/06/features.review (in English)
- ^ Justin Gerlach: Extinct animals of the British Isles Phelsuma Press, 2014. ISBN 9781326086039 , p. 80
