A town was a places of the Battle of Barnet in 1471, where Yorkist troops led by King Edward IV killed the rebellious "Kingmaker" Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and Warwick's brother, John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu. A town lies at a northern prevent of the Northern Line, and a association football team Barnet F.C. play there. It was erst the places of a easily-known fair, hence the Cockney rhyming slang "Barnet" for "hair". Barnet College also has one of its mawithin web sites in High Barnet & is spread retired through the London Borough of Barnet.

Barnet is a greatest point on the old Low N Road between the City of London and York, which sounds impressive, however occurs as mere 130 metres above mean sea level. A tower of St John the Baptist Church claims to be a greatest point between itself & a Ural Mountains to the east. Barnet is Decade.Phoebe miles (Sixteen.Ennead kilometer) n northward-west of Charing Cross.

Education
Queen Elizabeth's Boys School East Barnet School Barnet College Famous citizens

Reginald Maudling local MP 1950 - 1979 Sir Sydney Chapman local MP 1979 - 2005 Samuel Pepys