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Burnt Oak

Burnt Oak is a suburb of London, England, located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Charing Cross.

Burnt Oak
Burnt Oak · Ethan Doyle White
The place

Burnt Oak is a suburb of London, England, located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Charing Cross. It lies to the west of the M1 motorway between Edgware and Colindale, located predominantly in the London Borough of Barnet, with parts in the London Boroughs of Brent and Harrow. It was part of Middlesex until it was transferred to Greater London in 1965.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Burnt Oak

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Middlesex University

    Middlesex University, branded as Middlesex University London, is a public research university based in Hendon, northwest London, England. The university also has campuses in Dubai and Mauritius.

    3.1 km · university in London, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    RAF Museum London

    The Royal Air Force Museum London is located on the former Hendon Aerodrome, in North London's Borough of Barnet. It includes five buildings and hangars showing the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force.

    2 km · aviation museum in London, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The Hive Stadium

    The Hive London is a football centre near Edgware, London, offering football pitches for hire, conference and banqueting facilities, an on-site gym, cafe, bar and more. It was built on the former site of the municipal Prince Edward Playing Fields in Canons Park in the London Borough of Harrow.

    1.7 km · soccer ground in London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Canons Park

    Canons Park is a public park and the name of its surrounding residential area, in the Edgware district of the London Borough of Harrow, north-west London. Canons Park was a country estate which partially survives today as a public park.

    1.6 km · suburb of, and park in, London, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    UCL Observatory

    UCL Observatory at Mill Hill in London is an astronomical teaching observatory. It is part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London.

    2 km · observatory at Mill Hill in London, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture

    The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture was a museum in North London, England, housing one of the most comprehensive collections of 19th- and 20th-century decorative arts for the home. The collections included the Silver Studio collection of designs for wallpapers and textiles, the Charles Hasler collection, and the Crown Wallpaper Archive.

    1.9 km · museum and archive in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Old St Andrew's Church

    Old St Andrew's Church, Kingsbury, is a Romanian Orthodox and former Anglican church in Kingsbury in the London Borough of Brent, Greater London, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    4 km · Grade I listed church in Kingsbury, London, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Brent Reservoir

    The Brent Reservoir is a reservoir in North West London. It straddles the boundary between the boroughs of Brent and Barnet and is owned by the Canal & River Trust.

    3.9 km · reservoir which straddles the boundary between the London boroughs of Brent and Barnet, in England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Stanmore Country Park

    Stanmore Country Park is a 30.7-hectare public park, Local Nature Reserve and Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation in Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow. It is owned and managed by Harrow London Borough Council.

    3.5 km · country park and nature reserve in the London Borough of Harrow, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St Lawrence, Little Stanmore

    St. Lawrence, Whitchurch, is a Church of England parish church in Little Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow, England.

    1.7 km · church of England church in Stanmore, London · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Burnt Oak

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 20 km · London Luton (LTN), 31 km · London Stansted (STN), 47 km
Stations
Burnt Oak tube station, 200 m · Colindale tube station, 1.4 km · Edgware tube station, 1.3 km · Stanmore tube station, 3.1 km · Queensbury tube station, 1.7 km
  • London → Burnt Oak
    14 km · quickest by road, 57 min · £1.5–2
  • London, Essex → Burnt Oak
    14 km · quickest by road, 57 min · £1.5–2
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Burnt Oak
    149 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £16–21
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Burnt Oak

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Burnt Oak. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMore entertainment than transport really, rickshaws run in Soho and the surrounding areas.

From Wikivoyage: London/Soho, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    125 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    309 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    401 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    546 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    582 km

If you know how people move in Burnt Oak – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Burnt Oak

Burnt Oak is 6 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hendonsuburb situated in the London Borough of Barnet3.6 km
  • Edgwaresuburban town in the London Boroughs of Harrow and Barnet1.8 km
  • Kingsburyarea in the London Borough of Brent2.3 km
  • Mill Hillsuburb in the London Borough of Barnet3.2 km
  • Belmontarea in the London Borough of Harrow3.6 km
  • Queensburyarea in the London Borough of Brent2.1 km