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Potters Bar
Town in Hertfordshire, England

Potters Bar

Potters Bar is a town in Hertfordshire, England, 13 miles (21 km) north of central London.

Plan a trip to Potters Bar→From London

In 2011, it had a population of 21,882. In the 2021 census, the four wards that make up Potters Bar – Bentley Heath & The Royds, Furzefield, Oakmere and Parkfield – had a combined population of 22,536; this includes several smaller outlying hamlets contained in the Bentley Heath & The Royds ward, such as Bentley Heath and Ganwick Corner. In 2022, the population was around 23,325.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Oakmere Park
  2. 02
    Parkfield Open Space
  3. 03
    WW2 Pillbox

    Crossoaks Ln, EN6 3LH (Next to the Old Guinea Pub).

Do

Things to do

Play Cricket at

  1. 01
    Potters Bar Cricket Club

    The Walk, Potters Bar EN6 1QE,.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Harringtons Fish & Chips

    39 Darkes Lane, EN6 1BJ,.

  2. 02
    The Oakmere House
  3. 03
    The Old Manor

    Wyllyott's Place, Darkes Lane, EN6 2JD (go on Darkes Lane west 1/2 block from the railway station and then north 1/2 block on Wylliott's Place),.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Dietmar Rabich (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.