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Totteridge
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Totteridge is an area of the London Borough of Barnet in north London, England. It is a mixture of suburban development and open land (including some farmland) situated 9 miles (14.5 km) north north-west of Charing Cross.
It gives its name to a ward in the borough and to the St Andrew, Totteridge ecclesiastical parish of the Diocese of St Albans.[1]
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The boundary to the north and east is the Dollis Brook and the boundary to the south is that river's tributary, the Folly Brook. While these rivers define the area covered by the residents' association, the southern part of the area (with postcode N12 rather than N20) is generally regarded as being in Woodside Park.
The main road is the A5109, which runs roughly east-west. The western part is called Totteridge Common, the central part by the village green is called Totteridge Village and the eastern part is called Totteridge Lane; the Lane continues into Whetstone, terminating at its junction with High Road Whetstone (the A1000). At the western end of Totteridge Common is a set of traffic lights; the road to the north from these lights, Hendon Wood Lane, is just to the west of the western boundary.
Totteridge Village itself has many spacious detached properties in a green setting that are highly valued; some of them are among the most expensive houses in London. Thus its past and present residents include the rich and famous, such as Frankie Vaughan, Mickie Most, Hank Marvin, David Dein and many top footballers. More modest housing, much of it semi-detached, predominates at the eastern end of Totteridge.
The name is a corruption of "Tatta's Ridge", Tatta presumably being a local Anglo-Saxon notable. The ridge is the high ground between the valleys of the Dollis Brook and Folly Brook.
Totteridge was a civil parish of Hertfordshire covering an area of 1,604 acres[2] and formed part of a thin protrusion into Middlesex. It became part of Barnet Rural District in 1894, and then formed part of Barnet Urban District from 1914 to 1965. In 1965, the parish and urban district were abolished by the London Government Act 1963 and its area became part of the London Borough of Barnet. In 1901 the parish had a population of 844 and by 1951 it had risen to 4,500.[3]
A famous person born in Totteridge was Henry Edward Cardinal Manning. His biographer Lytton Strachey lived near the house where he was born.
- ^ Church of England - St Andrew, Totteridge in the Diocese of St Albans
- ^ Vision of Britain - Census report - area of Totteridge parish
- ^ Vision of Britain - Census report - population of Totteridge parish