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East Barnet

East Barnet is an area of north London within the London Borough of Barnet bordered by New Barnet, Cockfosters and Southgate.

East Barnet
East Barnet · Wikimedia Commons
The place

East Barnet is an area of north London within the London Borough of Barnet bordered by New Barnet, Cockfosters and Southgate. It is 10 miles (16 km) north of Charing Cross. It is a largely residential suburb whose central area contains shops, public houses, restaurants and services, and the parish church of St Mary the Virgin. East Barnet is close to the M25 and the A1 and M1.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around East Barnet

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
    Church of St Cyril of Turau and All the Patron Saints of the Belarusian People

    Church of St Cyril of Turau and All the Patron Saints of the Belarusian People is a wooden church in Woodside Park, London. It is the first wooden church built in London since the Great Fire.

    3.3 km · church in London, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Trent Park

    Trent Park is an English country house in north London, accompanied by its former extensive grounds. The original great house, along with several statues and other structures within the grounds, such as the Orangery, are Grade II listed buildings.

    2.7 km · park in the London Borough of Enfield, UK; in WW2 Camp for highranking enemy officers · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum

    Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum in north London, England, is the only library outside Belarus to collect exclusively in the field of Belarusian studies. It was formally established as an independent institution in 1971 and is owned by a charitable trust.

    3.3 km · library · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hornsey College of Art

    Hornsey College of Art, also known as HCA, founded in 1880 as the Hornsey School of Arts, was an art school in Crouch End, part of Hornsey, Middlesex, England. From 1965 it was in the London Borough of Haringey.

    1.1 km · Art college in England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St John the Baptist Church

    St John the Baptist Church is the Church of England parish church of Chipping Barnet, Greater London. It forms part of the Chipping Barnet Team Ministry, comprising St Mark's, Barnet Vale, St Peter's, Arkley and St Stephen's, Bell's Hill.

    2.9 km · church in Chipping Barnet, London · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hollybush

    Hollybush is a grade II listed building on Hadley Green Road to the north of Chipping Barnet. The main house was built around 1790 and the adjoining small buildings on the left even earlier.

    3.1 km · house in Monken Hadley, London · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Susi Earnshaw Theatre School

    The Susi Earnshaw Theatre School is a full-time private school specialising in academics and performing arts in Barnet, North London. The school was established in 1989 by former actress and journalist Susi Earnshaw and her husband David Earnshaw, who was a producer, touring and session musician.

    2.8 km · Theatre School · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Bethune Park

    Bethune Park or Bethune Recreation Ground is a public park in Friern Barnet in the London Borough of Barnet. Most of it is mown grass, and it also has a large nature reserve area, a children's playground, a basketball court and a tennis court.

    2.7 km · park in Friern Barnet, London, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Mary the Virgin, East Barnet

    St Mary the Virgin is the Church of England parish church for East Barnet within the Diocese of St Albans. It is located on Church Hill.

    1 km · church in East Barnet, London · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Friary Park

    Friary Park is a 9-hectare formal Edwardian park in Friern Barnet in the London Borough of Barnet. The park opened to the public in 1910, and the facilities include a cafe, playground and skatepark.

    2.7 km · park in Friern Barnet, 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 East Barnet

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 28 km · London Luton (LTN), 29 km · London Stansted (STN), 38 km
Stations
Oakwood tube station, 2.2 km · Cockfosters tube station, 1.4 km · Arnos Grove tube station, 3.6 km · High Barnet tube station, 2.3 km · Southgate tube station, 2.7 km
  • London → East Barnet
    16 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £1.5–2
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → East Barnet
    151 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £16–21
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → East Barnet
    160 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for East Barnet

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 East Barnet. 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

    133 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    317 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    393 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    547 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    582 km

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

Around it

Next door to East Barnet

East Barnet is 13 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • London Borough of Barnetborough in the London Region in England2.1 km
  • Barnetarea in the London Borough of Barnet, England, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Cockfosterssuburb of North London, England1.2 km
  • Southgatesuburban area of north London, England2.8 km
  • Totteridgearea of the London Borough of Barnet2.7 km
  • Whetstoneplace in the London Borough of Barnet2 km