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Home , Arkley, Barnet Urban District, Chipping Barnet, East Barnet, Middlesex

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BARNET V ALE is a civil pa1·ish formed out of the 1 the 11 Local Government Actj 1894" (56 and 57 Vict; a. old of , under the "Local Govern­ 73), been formed into a , alld which ia 1905 ment Act, 1894 " :(56 and 57 Vict. c. 73), and will be I was transferred to. the . found under , p. 43· was formed into an ecclesiastical parish April q, ~ I 1905. The parish cho.rch of St. Peter, erected here in Urban Civil Parish has been formed in 184~ by the late Enoch Durant esq. of High Canons, purmance of the . "Local Government Act, 1894.'' end , is a plain building of flint, with dressings of comprises the Herts portion of the old parish in Barnet freestone, mostly in a debased Gothic atyle, consisting Urban District. The area is 273 acres; rateable value, of chancel, nave, small transepts, west porch and a £28,400; the population in 1901 was 4•497• and in :rgn, • western turret, containi::1g one bell : in the chapel ia a 5,553· It is ·now included in the marble monument to the founder: in 1898 a new ofH~. I chancel. in the Early English style, with grained oak roof was consecrated: there are sittings for 170 persons. ARKLEY, ' formerly called Barnet Common, is a The registers were incorporated in those of the BarneL chapelry of Barnet, I mile · west, standing on high parish church until 1905. The living was declared a ground and commanding extensive and beautiful views vicarage 14th April, :rgos, net yearly value {.209, with which open towards and • residence, in the gift of the Bishop of St. Albans1 and held since I9o5 by the Rev. John Tinson Wrenford. The on the north, while on the south mav• be discernea the , high grounds of and and Muswell area is 830 acres; rateable value, £'4,279; the popu-- . Hill, with the Alexandra Park and Palace. The neigh­ lation in I9II was 494· • • v .- · bourhood is studded with pleasant villas, the branch l of the Great Northern railway to High Barnet giving Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.... easy access to the City and West End. The old Roman Spencer Rush, sub-postmaster. Letters from Bam~ road between and St ..Albans, traQes of which arrive at 7.30 & 11 a.m. & 3.30 & 7·55 p.m.; sundays, may yet be clearly distinguished, passed 1;brough the 8.30; box cleared at 8.5 a.m. & :r2.2o; 3.jo, 6.5 centre of the district. This place has, in pursuance of & 7·55 p.m. week days &; 8.15 p.m. sundays . I . OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS,, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c. • Post, M.O. & T.O. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, Darlington Hayward Radcliffe, Park house, Pottera Bal' High street.- , postmaster. De­ Enfield Viscount, Dancer's Hill house, Barnet liveries commence at 6.45 & I0-5 a.m. & 2.50 & 7-15 Gilling J ohu Fredericl;:, The Elms, Hadley Green, Bamet p.m.; sundays, 7·30 a.m. Box closes for dispatches Hackforth-Jone.s. Frank Wm.- A.rklev. ho. A.rkley, BarneL at 6.15, 9.25 &; n. IS a.m. & I, 1.20, 4.:rs, 5·4S· 6.45, Halsey Waiter Johnst