Description
Barnet, East, a parish and a village in Herts, on the G.N.R., near Oakleigli Park station, lj mile ESE of Barnet, with a post and money order office; telegraph office, New Barnet. Acreage, 1698; population of the civil parish, 5128; of the ecclesiastical, 1403. There is an ancient church, erected by one of the early abbots of St Albans. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, £224 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The parish is governed by a local board of 12 members.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
