10 Facts About Potters Bar

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

The Potters Bar is thought to refer to the gates leading from the South Mimms parish and into the Enfield Chase parish, or possibly from a toll on the Great North Road, said to have been by what is the disused Green Man pub, or at the current entrance to Morven House.

Potters Bar is located on the Great North Road, one of two road routes from the City of London to the north of England.

Potters Bar was historically part of Middlesex and formed the Potters Bar Urban District of that county from 1934.

Potters Bar is served by junctions 23 and 24 of the M25 motorway.

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Potters Bar has a bus depot that services local bus routes as well as some London bus routes.

Potters Bar has been the scene of three train crashes; two major and one minor.

Potters Bar has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V, which is situated behind the Furzefield Centre.

In 1983, the area around Potters Bar was used for the on-location filming of the comic-horror film Bloodbath at the House of Death.

Potters Bar is home to a performing arts school, Top Hat Stage School, which has been running classes at Elm Court Community Centre since 1994.