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East Finchley

East Finchley is an area of north London, in Greater London, England.

East Finchley
East Finchley · Grim23 at en.wikipedia
The place

East Finchley is an area of north London, in Greater London, England. It lies immediately north of Hampstead Heath; like neighbouring Muswell Hill, it straddles the London Boroughs of Barnet and Haringey, with most of area falling under the former. Geographically, it is separated from the rest of Finchley by the North Circular, with North Finchley and West Finchley to the north, and Finchley Central to the north-west.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around East Finchley

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
    Hampstead Heath

    Hampstead Heath is an ancient heath in London, spanning 320 hectares. This grassy public space sits astride a sandy ridge, one of the highest points in London, running from Hampstead to Highgate, which rests on a band of London Clay.

    3.4 km · park in Camden and Barnet in London, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.7 km · university in London, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Alexandra Palace

    Alexandra Palace is an entertainment and sports venue in north London, situated between Wood Green and Muswell Hill in the London Borough of Haringey. A Grade II listed building, it is built on the site of Tottenham Wood and the later Tottenham Wood Farm.

    3.1 km · entertainment venue in Alexandra Park, London · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kenwood House

    Kenwood House is a stately home in Hampstead, London, on the northern boundary of Hampstead Heath. The present house, built in the late 17th century, was remodelled in the 18th century for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield by Scottish architect Robert Adam, serving as a residence for the Earls of Mansfield until the 20th century.

    2.2 km · art museum and historic house in Hampstead, London · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Parliament Hill

    Parliament Hill is an area of open parkland in the south-east corner of Hampstead Heath in north-west London. The hill, which is 98 metres high, is notable for its views of the capital's skyline.

    3.6 km · hill and area of open parkland in the south-east corner of Hampstead Heath, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Tomb of Karl Marx

    The Tomb of Karl Marx is in the Eastern cemetery of Highgate Cemetery, North London, England. It is the burial site of Karl Marx, his wife Jenny von Westphalen, and other members of Marx's family, including his daughter Eleanor Marx.

    3.4 km · tomb in Highgate Cemetery in London, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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 km · church in London, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Alexandra Park

    Alexandra Park is a 200-acre, Green Flag Award, and Green Heritage winning, diverse-landscape park, in the Borough of Haringey in north London adjacent to Hornsey, Muswell Hill and Wood Green. Laid out on the site of Tottenham Wood and the later Tottenham Wood Farm, the park and palace were named in 1863, the year of the marriage of Alexandra of Denmark to the Prince of Wales who became King Edward VII. Alexandra Park is split between hilly and flat ground.

    3.4 km · park in the London Borough of Haringey · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Keats House

    Keats House is a writer's house museum in what was once the home of the Romantic poet John Keats. It is in Keats Grove, Hampstead, in inner north London.

    3.9 km · writer's house museum in Keats Grove, Hampstead, London Borough of Camden, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    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 km · library · 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 Finchley

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 24 km · London Luton (LTN), 34 km · London Stansted (STN), 43 km
Stations
Bounds Green tube station, 4 km · Golders Green tube station, 2.4 km · Hampstead tube station, 3.7 km · Archway tube station, 3.9 km · Hendon Central tube station, 3.6 km
  • London → East Finchley
    9 km · quickest by road, 45 min · £1
  • London, Essex → East Finchley
    9 km · quickest by road, 45 min · £1
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → East Finchley
    155 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £16–22
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for East Finchley

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 Finchley. 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

    128 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    315 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    396 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    551 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    586 km

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

Around it

Next door to East Finchley

East Finchley is 8 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hendonsuburb situated in the London Borough of Barnet3.5 km
  • Highgatedistrict of the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington in North London, England3 km
  • Finchleyarea of North London, England in the London Borough of Barnet1.3 km
  • Golders Greensuburban area in the London Borough of Barnet2.4 km
  • Hornseydistrict of London, England4 km
  • Crouch Endarea in the London Borough of Haringey, England, UK3.8 km