Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Friern Barnet. You may be able to find further references to Friern Barnet in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Barnet Fryern	parish	Bartholomew
Fryern Barnet	parish	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Friern Barnet.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Colney Hatch	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
COLNEY-HATCH	a hamlet	Imperial
Woodside Park	railway station and seat	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Friern Barnet within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant	St Albans to London	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Colney Hatch	1	2
Whetstone	3	2
New Southgate	0	2
Woodside Park	0	1
East Barnet	0	3
Southgate	0	2
Bounds Green	0	1
Totteridge	1	2
New Barnet	0	1
Finchley	2	2
Palmers Green	0	2
Muswell Hill	1	2
Alexandra Park	0	1
Church End	0	2
Wood Green	0	2
Barnet	23	6
Trent	0	3
Winchmore Hill	1	2
Mill Hill	0	2
Hornsey	1	2