Pamela Taylor

ISBN: 9780948667787

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High above London, on the Great North Road, these two ancient settlements prospered from serving the many travellers who used their inns, stables and smithies. Barnet also had a famous market and fair.

The coming of the railway changed everything, rendering inns redundant and diminishing the market-but it made Barnet ripe for development, superior to that in many other new suburbs. Hadley, the scene of the famous Battle of Barnet in 1471, remained largely untouched until modern times and still retains a wealth of fine buildings and open greens. The former borough archivist has written a very full history, imaginatively illustrated.

245 x 185mm (hardback with 180 illustrations) 144 pages

Published 2002

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