14 Facts About Chipping Barnet

Chipping Barnet or High Barnet is a suburban market town in north London, forming part of the London Borough of Barnet, England.

Chipping Barnet is the name of the Parliamentary constituency covering the local area – the word "Chipping" denotes the presence of a market, one that was established here at the end of the 12th century and persists to this day.

Chipping Barnet is one of the highest urban settlements in London, with the town centre having an elevation of about 427 feet .

Chipping Barnet's elevated position is indicated in one of its alternative names, which appears in many old books and maps, and which the Great Northern Railway company adopted for the railway station opened in 1872 .

Chipping Barnet Hill is said to be the hill mentioned in the nursery rhyme "The Grand Old Duke of York".

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Chipping Barnet was historically a civil parish of Hertfordshire and formed part of the Barnet Urban District from 1894.

At the beginning of the 21st century, a tongue-in-cheek movement calling for the name Chipping Barnet to be changed to "Chipping Barnet" began to gain the attention of the public and the national media, with many public road signs in the area regularly being altered to contain the accented character.

The parish of Chipping Barnet, served by St John's Church, was provided with a chapel-of-ease in Victorian times; subsequently Chipping Barnet parish was split in two, and the chapel-of-ease raised to the status of a parish church, dedicated to St Stephen.

Chipping Barnet is designated as a Neighbourhood Centre in the London Plan.

Chipping Barnet Hill is a major hill on the historic Great North Road.

Chipping Barnet is served by Chipping Barnet Hospital, which is run by The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust as part of the English National Health Service.

Chipping Barnet has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V Old Court House Recreation Ground is a park in High Barnet.

The public houses and bars in High Chipping Barnet include: the Butchers Arms, The Red Lion, the King's Head, the Monk, the Black Horse, Ye Olde Mitre Inn, the Hadley Oak, the Nelson, and the Sebright Arms.

The large number of inns in Chipping Barnet was a matter of note in Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist; it was here that Oliver met the Artful Dodger.