Barnet, London: the RAF Museum, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Chipping Barnet and the field of 1471

The RAF Museum London stands on Grahame Park Way, NW9 5LL, on the ground of the former Hendon Aerodrome. It opens daily from 10.00am to 5.00pm, and the operator states that entry is free but recommends booking tickets in advance. Wikidata records the museum's opening as 15 November 1972. Four separate National Heritage List entries cover the site, all at Grade II: the museum itself, NHLE 1064791, listed 14 January 1987; the former control tower, watch office, aircraft factory and factory office block, NHLE 1064790, listed the same day; the Grahame White Hangar, NHLE 1078854, listed 20 February 1979 and amended 21 March 1985; and the former entrance gates to the Grahame White Aviation Company Limited, NHLE 1359021, listed 20 February 1979. The gates are a different entry from the museum. Colindale Underground Station, on the Northern line, is 915 m away and is the one rail or metro station within 1,600 m.

Church End, Hendon, holds two entries about 40 m apart. The Parish Church of St Mary, Church End, NW4 4JT, is Grade II listed, NHLE 1359029, listed 3 February 1950 and amended 7 April 1983. Church Farmhouse, on Greyhound Hill, NW4 4JR, is Grade II listed, NHLE 1188513, listed 3 February 1950 and amended 21 March 1985; their grid references are TQ 22871 89561 and TQ 22831 89546. Both stand inside the Hendon Church End conservation area, designated by the London Borough of Barnet in 1983. Church Farmhouse is a seventeenth-century two-storey red-brick farmhouse with three gables. It ran as Church Farmhouse Museum until Barnet Council withdrew funding and the museum closed on 31 March 2011, after a final exhibition on Harry Beck and the London Tube Map that closed on 27 March; part of the collection went to Barnet Museum and part was sold at auction. Middlesex University took the building over and restored it in 2016, and it now houses the Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies and the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre. A blue plaque on the house commemorates Mark Lemon, who lived there as a child between 1817 and 1823; blue plaques carry no statutory protection. The Daniel Almshouses about 200 m south-east are Grade II, NHLE 1188528, and a single milestone entered as MILESTONE (LONDON 7) ON WALL OF NUMBER 161 BRENT STREET BETWEEN CHURCH ROAD AND LODGE ROAD is Grade II, NHLE 1078862. Hendon Central Underground Station is 858 m from the church and Hendon Rail Station 1,460 m.

Hendon Town Hall, on The Burroughs, NW4 4BG, is Grade II listed, NHLE 1294762, listed 7 April 1983. Hendon Library is Grade II, NHLE 1390057, listed 7 May 2002, and Hendon Fire Station is Grade II, NHLE 1352682, listed 3 April 2002 and amended 29 October 2009. The three stand within about 130 m of one another on the same street, with the Grade II terraces at 44-52 The Burroughs, NHLE 1078865, at 47 and 55, NHLE 1078864, at 15, NHLE 1078863, at 9 and 11, NHLE 1359025, and Burroughs House, NHLE 1359026. The Hendon War Memorial is Grade II, NHLE 1432741, listed 18 October 2016. The group stands in the Hendon The Burroughs conservation area, designated by the London Borough of Barnet in 1983. Hendon Central Underground Station, 552 m from NW4 4BG, is itself Grade II listed, NHLE 1401082, listed 20 July 2011, and Hendon Rail Station is 1,108 m.

Henrietta Barnett set up the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust Ltd in 1906 to buy 243 acres from Eton College; Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin prepared the master plan, and the suburb consists of just over 5,000 properties. Despite the name it is in Barnet, and Hampstead itself is in the London Borough of Camden. Central Square was laid out by Edwin Lutyens and carries two churches and a Quaker Meeting House. St Jude-on-the-Hill, Central Square, NW11 7AH, is Grade I listed, NHLE 1294714, listed 18 March 1965. The Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church, on Northway at the same square, NW11 7AE, is Grade I listed, NHLE 1078866, listed the same day. These are the two Grade I entries in Barnet, and their grid references, TQ 25516 88361 and TQ 25449 88471, put them about 120 m apart across the square. The Institute, now the Henrietta Barnett School, faces the square and is Grade II listed, NHLE 1359028. Waterlow Court, off Heath Close, is Grade II listed, NHLE 1064889, and is private residential. The square lies inside the Hampstead Garden Suburb conservation area, designated by the London Borough of Barnet in 1968 and extended in October 2010, which covers about 4.10 sq km. St Jude's is a working parish church and a venue for recording, filming and concerts, housing a Steinway D concert grand piano; the operator asks visitors to check its online diary for visiting times and publishes no weekly schedule, so none is given here.

Golders Green Crematorium is at 62 Hoop Lane, NW11 7NL. Its grounds are a Grade I registered park and garden, NHLE 1001575, registered 9 January 2002 and recorded by Historic England at 4.56 hectares; the Memorial Gardens are open 365 days a year from 9.00am to 5.00pm. The crematorium building is a separate Grade II listed entry, NHLE 1064865, listed 19 March 1981, and the boundary wall with its attached memorials and gates is Grade II, NHLE 1064769. The Mausoleum to the Philipson Family in the grounds is Grade II*, NHLE 1064788, and the Martin Smith Mausoleum is Grade II, NHLE 1064770. The land was bought in 1900 for £6,000 and the crematorium opened in 1902 under Sir Henry Thompson, founder of the Cremation Society. Directly opposite on Hoop Lane, the Hoop Lane Jewish Cemetery is a Grade II registered park and garden, NHLE 1465310, registered 11 December 2020, at 3.19 hectares.

The Golders Green Hippodrome is on North End Road, NW11 7RP, and is Grade II listed, NHLE 1286941, listed 23 October 1973. Bertie Crewe built it in 1913 as a 3,000-seat music hall serving north London and the new Northern line extension to Golders Green. The BBC took it over in the 1960s as a television studio and later used it as a radio and concert venue; it became an evangelical church building in 2007, was acquired in 2017 by Markaz El Tathgheef El Eslami, the Centre for Islamic Enlightening, and was bought by Hillsong Church in October 2021. It stands 157 m from Golders Green Underground Station, which is also 533 m from the crematorium and 929 m from Central Square.

Stephens House & Gardens, at 17 East End Road, N3 3QE, was built in 1859 on land known as Temple Croft Field and bought in 1874 by Henry Charles Stephens of the Stephens' Ink Company, who enlarged the grounds with advice from the landscape gardener Robert Marnock. Stephens left the estate on his death in 1918 to Finchley Urban District Council on condition that it shall be open for the use and enjoyment always of the public; the house and ten acres were leased to the Avenue House Estate Trust for 125 years from 2002 and have carried the name Stephens House and Gardens since January 2014. The house is Grade II listed, NHLE 1387515, listed 20 July 1999, and the grounds are separately a Grade II registered park and garden, NHLE 1001430, registered the same day at 4.35 hectares. Both stand in the Finchley Church End conservation area, designated by the London Borough of Barnet in 1979. The grounds are free to enter and the house is in charity and events use. Finchley Central Underground Station is 598 m away and West Finchley 1,585 m.

College Farm, on Fitzalan Road, N3 3PG, is a working model farm of 1868 covered by four Grade II entries: the dairy, NHLE 1064789, the main farm building, NHLE 1359127, and the silo, NHLE 1359128, all listed 15 January 1986, and the foreman's house, NHLE 1263723, listed 20 April 1988. The site has a conservation area to itself, named Finchley College Farm and covering about 3.8 hectares. It opens Monday to Saturday 10.00am to 6.00pm and Sunday 10.00am to 1.30pm, offers manure free to collect during operating hours and takes donations towards animal care. Finchley Central Underground Station is 1,186 m east and is the one station within 1,600 m.

The Phoenix Cinema, at 52 High Road, East Finchley, N2 9PJ, was built in 1910 and opened in 1912 as the East Finchley Picturedrome. It is Grade II listed, NHLE 1385096, listed 5 October 2000, and Wikidata links the item to that entry number. It is an independent single-screen community cinema run by a charity, showing mainly art-house films, and carries a large neon side sign on the High Road. East Finchley Underground Station is 169 m away. The operator publishes its current programme and its film times but no opening or box-office hours, so none are given here.

La Delivrance stands on public land at Henly's Corner, the junction of Regent's Park Road and Finchley Road, N3 3JH. It is a bronze of 1914 by the French sculptor Emile Oscar Guillaume, made to mark the First Battle of the Marne; the 4.9 m example here was set up on 20 October 1927, and another example has stood in Nantes since the same year. It is Grade II* listed, NHLE 1286880, listed 7 April 1983 and amended 18 February 2016, and it is visible at all times.

artsdepot is at 5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner, North Finchley, N12 0GA. It opened to the public on 23 October 2004, when more than 2,500 people came to its Community Open Day, and the Earl of Wessex opened the building formally on 26 November 2004; the source describes both as the opening and does not reconcile them. It holds the Studio Theatre, the Pentland Theatre, a Dance Space, an Art Space and a Drama Space, the Apthorp Gallery and Exhibition Wall, and a cafe, cafedepot, and it serves about 269,000 visitors a year as a charity, number 1083893. The building is not on the National Heritage List for England and is not in a conservation area. Its times run on a per-day rota rather than a weekly schedule, and the building closes anywhere between 4.30pm and 8pm depending on the day, so no weekly hours are given here. West Finchley Underground Station is 901 m away and Woodside Park 934 m.

Totteridge Village keeps the Church of St Andrew, N20 8PR, Grade II listed, NHLE 1064837, listed 1 February 1950 and amended 7 April 1983, with the barn to its north-west separately Grade II, NHLE 1359112, listed 7 April 1983. St Andrew's is in the Diocese of St Albans rather than a London diocese, a survival of Totteridge's Hertfordshire status before 1965. Grade II houses on the same lane include Totteridge Park, NHLE 1064825, its former stable block, NHLE 1064826, the walled garden, NHLE 1064827, and the well to its west, NHLE 1192320. The Totteridge conservation area, designated by the London Borough of Barnet in 1970 and amended in May 2008, covers roughly 1.75 sq km; among the borough's sixteen conservation areas, Hampstead Garden Suburb covers 4.10 sq km, Monken Hadley 2.52 sq km and Mill Hill 1.87 sq km. Totteridge & Whetstone Underground Station is 1,445 m from the church, Woodside Park 1,854 m and High Barnet 2,101 m, all on the Northern line; this is a long walk from any station.

Chipping Barnet's town centre stands at about 427 feet, or 130 m. Chipping denotes the market established here at the end of the twelfth century, chartered on 23 August 1199 by King John to the Abbot of St Albans and re-chartered by Elizabeth I in 1588; Barnet Market now trades from Stapylton Road behind The Spires, and the operator publishes no market days, so none are given here. The Church of St John the Baptist crowns the ascent up Barnet Hill at the junction of Wood Street and High Street and is Grade II* listed, NHLE 1359101, listed 1 February 1950 and amended 7 April 1983. Tudor Hall, on Wood Street, is Grade II listed, NHLE 1286564, listed 7 April 1983 and entered as TUDOR HALL (PART OF BARNET COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION). It was the original schoolroom of Queen Elizabeth's School, founded in 1573 by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and others in the name of Queen Elizabeth I, and it is now part of Barnet and Southgate College and not generally open. Twenty-nine National Heritage List entries fall within 400 m of the church, twenty-eight of them Grade II: they include the Jesus Hospital or Ravenscroft Cottages almshouses, NHLE 1192624, Garrett's Almshouses, NHLE 1064809, the Church House, NHLE 1192592, the Mitre public house, NHLE 1287050, the former Victoria Maternity Hospital, NHLE 1192582, and the Coroner's Court, NHLE 1391752. Both church and hall stand in the Wood Street conservation area, designated by the London Borough of Barnet in 1969 and extended in July 2007.

Barnet Museum is at 31 Wood Street, EN5 4BE, and opens Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 2.30pm to 4.30pm, Saturday 10.30am to 4.00pm and Sunday 2.30pm to 4.30pm, with free admission. It opened in March 1938 to house the collection of the Barnet Record Society, founded in 1927 to record and preserve Barnet's history, and holds hundreds of artefacts dating from the Bronze Age to the present day, an extensive archive, and displays on the Battle of Barnet, Barnet Fair and Barnet Market; the archives, library and reference collection are available to members of the public. Number 31 is not itself on the National Heritage List for England, though fourteen other Wood Street entries are, and the museum's protection is the Wood Street conservation area. High Barnet Underground Station is 556 m away and is the one station within 1,600 m.

Hadley Green, on the Great North Road north of Chipping Barnet, carries the battlefield of 1471. The Battle of Barnet was fought on Sunday 14 April 1471, Easter Day, between Edward IV's Yorkists and the Lancastrians under Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, who was killed; the armies clashed at dawn in thick fog, the Earl of Oxford's men were shot at in error by Lord Montagu's centre as they returned to the field, and cries of treason spread through the Lancastrian line. Edward's victory, with Tewkesbury that May, secured the throne and was followed by fourteen years of Yorkist rule. Historic England registered the ground as a battlefield on 6 June 1995, NHLE 1000001, over 112.11 hectares, and a battlefield carries no grade. The registered boundary crosses the borough edge and part of the ground lies outside Greater London; archaeological survey since 2015 has argued that the fighting took place further west than the registered area. The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Monken Hadley, on Hadley Green Road, EN5 5PZ, stands at the northern edge of the registered area and is Grade II listed, NHLE 1078819, listed 18 July 1949 and amended 7 April 1983. Around it stand Hadley House, Grade II, NHLE 1078824; its stable block, Grade II, NHLE 1293470; Hadley Hurst, Grade II, NHLE 1188803; Pagitt's Almshouses 1, 2 and 3, Grade II, NHLE 1078820; the Wilbraham Almshouses, Grade II, NHLE 1078821; the Gate House and Gate, Grade II, NHLE 1078809; and the access gates to Hadley Common at each end of The Crescent, Grade II, NHLE 1078832. The Monken Hadley conservation area was designated by the London Borough of Barnet in December 1968 alongside Mill Hill, amended in February 1979 and extended in January 2007. Monken Hadley was in Hertfordshire from 1889 until 1965.

Nineteen rail or metro stations lie inside Barnet. Every Underground station in the borough is on one line, the Northern. Its Edgware branch calls at Brent Cross, Golders Green, Hendon Central, Colindale, Burnt Oak and Edgware; its High Barnet branch at East Finchley, Finchley Central, West Finchley, Woodside Park, Totteridge & Whetstone and High Barnet; and the Mill Hill East spur runs off the High Barnet branch. National Rail adds Thameslink at Cricklewood, Hendon, Brent Cross West, Mill Hill Broadway, New Barnet and Oakleigh Park, and Great Northern at New Barnet and Oakleigh Park. There is no Overground station, no Elizabeth line station, no DLR station and no tram stop in Barnet, and no Piccadilly line station either: Arnos Grove, Southgate and Cockfosters, which serve the borough's eastern side, are in the London Borough of Enfield.

For Hendon and Colindale, take the Northern line to Colindale, 915 m from the RAF Museum London and the one station within 1,600 m of it. Take the Northern line to Hendon Central for Church End, 858 m from the Parish Church of St Mary, and for The Burroughs, 552 m from Hendon Town Hall; Hendon Rail Station, on Thameslink, is 1,460 m from the church and 1,108 m from the town hall. Mill Hill Broadway, on Thameslink, and Mill Hill East, on the Northern line, serve Mill Hill, 1,346 m and 1,575 m from the centre of the village.

For Golders Green and Hampstead Garden Suburb, take the Northern line to Golders Green, 157 m from the Hippodrome and 533 m from Golders Green Crematorium. The Garden Suburb has no station of its own: from Central Square, Golders Green is 929 m, Brent Cross 1,743 m and East Finchley 1,839 m, all on the Northern line, and nothing lies within 900 m.

For Finchley and North Finchley, take the Northern line to Finchley Central, 598 m from Stephens House & Gardens and 1,186 m from College Farm, or to East Finchley, 169 m from the Phoenix Cinema. For artsdepot at Tally Ho Corner, West Finchley is 901 m and Woodside Park 934 m, both on the Northern line.

For Totteridge, Chipping Barnet and Monken Hadley, take the Northern line to High Barnet, the northern terminus of the High Barnet branch: it is 479 m from the Church of St John the Baptist, 556 m from Barnet Museum and 1,167 m from Monken Hadley. Hadley Wood Rail Station, on Great Northern and Thameslink, is the nearest National Rail station to Monken Hadley at 1,430 m and is in the London Borough of Enfield; New Barnet, on the same two operators, is 1,954 m. Oakleigh Park serves East Barnet, 766 m away. Totteridge Village is a long walk from any station: Totteridge & Whetstone is 1,938 m from the village centre and High Barnet 2,140 m. Every distance above is a straight-line figure from the TfL StopPoint API, not a walking measurement.