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Arkley is a village in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Barnet.It is located 10.6 miles (17.1 km) north-northwest of Charing Cross.. It consists of a long village strung out between Barnet and Stirling Corner, and composed of the ancient hamlets of Barnet Gate, Rowley Green and Arkley.
Barnet Gate Mill or Arkley Windmill is a grade II* listed tower mill at Barnet Gate in the London Borough of Barnet, originally in Hertfordshire. [1]
This page is a list of these buildings in the London Borough of Barnet. Grade I. Name Location Type ... Arkley, EN5 3LD: Tower mill: 1822–40: 1 February 1950
Barnet Gate is a hamlet on the northern edge of the London Borough of Barnet to the west of Arkley, in England.There was a settlement there during the Roman occupation of Britain and in the Anglo-Saxon period it was known as Grendeles Gatan (Grendel's Gate or Grendelgate) after Grendel, the monster in the epic poem Beowulf.
The place name Barnet is derived from the Old English bærnet meaning "land cleared by burning". [27] The old Barnet Urban District had been the least populous of the five predecessor districts at the 1961 census; nearly half the new borough's population lived in the old borough of Hendon. [28]
Arkley Lane Field next to Arkley Lane. Arkley Lane and Pastures is a 50-hectare (120-acre) Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade II, in Arkley in the London Borough of Barnet. Arkley Lane, off Barnet Road, is an old drovers' road. [1] [2] Located on the Barnet Plateau, [3] it
Rowley Lodge Field is a Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade II, in Arkley in the London Borough of Barnet. [1] Rowley Lodge Field is an old hay meadow, with flower rich grassland and scattered oak trees. It has a good diversity of wild flowers, including great burnet and pignut, both characteristic of unimproved grassland.
St Peter's was originally built for the benefit of Durant's tenants and workers, but, some years after his death, it became a chapel-of-ease of St John the Baptist Church, Chipping Barnet. It was dedicated for this purpose in 1888 by Alfred Blomfield, Bishop of Colchester, son of Charles Blomfield.