39-491: Arnos Grove ( / ˈ ɑːr n ɒ s ˈ ɡ r oʊ v / ) is an area of north London , England, within the London Borough of Enfield . It is centred 7.5 miles (12 km) north of Charing Cross . It is adjacent to New Southgate . The natural grove , larger than today, was for many centuries the largest woodland in the chapelry of Southgate in the parish of Edmonton . It became inter-related with Arnos Park when its owner
78-425: A desirable area to live in. The southward expansion of Arnos Grove, which was initiated by the bias of facilities to the south of the original estate, was aided by the destruction of parts of New Southgate during World War II . There is now an almost continuous line of shops between Arnos Grove and New Southgate, via Betstyle Circus, making the areas closely linked. Until the building of its tube station Arnos Grove
117-515: A late medieval chapelry in the mid 19th century, and closely associated with New Southgate later in that century, which is south of Arnos Grove and overlaps. The tube terminus station, Arnos Grove tube station , has cemented its own district status in the popular naming of UK urban places which is rarely rigorously defined. The relatively recent creation of the local Anglican parishes, civil parishes and later changes in early local government body name and electoral wards in this area means Arnos Grove
156-566: A mosaic of a dog on the New Southgate Millennium Green on Station Road. Gerald Massey , poet and Chartist , lived on Grove Road, New Southgate, and gives his name to the adjoining Massey Close. New Southgate railway station is situated on Station Road, on the border with neighbouring Friern Barnet . The station is served by Great Northern and Thameslink trains, which link the area to destinations in Hertfordshire to
195-464: A natural progression fell into the Municipal Borough of Southgate (1881-1965); Southgate had recently grown from a broad hamlet of South Street and others in the parish of Edmonton . From 1851 Southgate constituted a district chapelry under Edmonton which replaced the semi-private Ward Chapel at Arnos Grove built in the 17th century — immediately north-east of Betstyle. The parent chapelry
234-514: A small part of the east of Barnet , a south-west corner of Enfield and in loosest definitions, based on nearest railway stations, a small northern corner of Haringey in North London , England where estates merge into Bounds Green . Its first church, founded in 1873, was among organisations opting for the newer name, New Southgate, rather than the older hamlet name Colney Hatch which from 1851 became more use-specific. The gradual demise of
273-508: Is a crossroads between Bowes Road, Wilmer Way and Telford Road. This is one of the few junctions on the A406 that the road does not run straight through or under. Arnos Grove tube station is on the Piccadilly line which passes through Haringey to Heathrow Airport via King's Cross St Pancras tube station and international rail hub. The station building is considered to be a significant example of
312-551: Is characterised by housing estates with rear gardens, resulting in its relatively low population density. The district traverses three boroughs: Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. Much is a sub area of Southgate and part of an electoral ward which has usually included 'Southgate' in successive names, including Southgate Grove, and the current Southgate Green. The postcode area N11 takes in New Southgate. It skirts significantly into Arnos Grove , Bounds Green and Friern Barnet . It
351-484: Is now Morton Crescent. The road that runs from Morton Crescent eastward (to Southgate) is also called Arnos Grove. The area's name derives from that of an estate called Arnoldes Grove or Arno's Grove , i.e. 'grove or copse of the Arnold family'. The Arnolds were local landowners who are mentioned in documents dating from the 14th century. Arnos Grove was, until the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII , owned by
390-495: Is numbered eleventh (N11) due to its main post distribution centre being in New Southgate and the numbering on that basis was alphabetical (aside from N1). The first reference to New Southgate is in the 1850s. Much of New Southgate was once the hamlet of Betstile centred on a crossroads at which stood Betstile House and Betstile Lodge; Betstyle has been perpetuated since the early 20th century with Betstyle Road and Betstyle Circus. North and east parts were known as Betstyle and as
429-547: Is rarely mentioned with reference to any of its parent areas. In political representation – for electoral purposes – the area has generally been in national and local areas including the rest of Southgate and mentioning the name Southgate. One of the main features of Arnos Grove is Arnos Park (44 acres or 18 ha in size). Arnos Park is a remnant of the Arnos Grove estate, and was opened in 1928 after having been purchased by Southgate Council. The Pymmes Brook flows through
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#1733084890376468-662: Is the Anglican parish church of New Southgate and was consecrated in 1873. The building was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Early English style . It consists of chancel with north and south chapels and south bell turret and aisled nave . The fabric, which was severely damaged by bombing in 1944, was restored by R. S. Morris by 1957. Arnos Grove is near the A406 road (North Circular) between Palmers Green and Bounds Green . The junction most commonly associated with Arnos Grove
507-515: The Nuns of Clerkenwell . It was known as Armholt Wood in the 14th century, and later as Arnolds. A Tudor manor house was erected on the site, but was demolished in 1719 – presumably by James Colebrook , who bought the estate in the same year and built a mansion called Arnolds in Cannon Hill, Southgate . Locals called the estate Arno's and the next owner, Sir William Mayne (later Lord Newhaven), renamed
546-508: The West End and West London , and Heathrow Airport . London Buses routes 34 , 184, 221, 232, 251, 298, 382 and SL1 pass through the area. Bus 34 runs overnight on Friday and Saturday nights between Barnet and Walthamstow Central. Night bus N91 runs between Cockfosters and Trafalgar Square nightly. A spur of Crossrail 2 is planned to terminate at New Southgate, if the project goes ahead. The A406 North Circular Road runs along
585-431: The 17th century. Southgate, extending to the north and east, became a local board in 1881, and later an urban district and municipal borough. Friern Barnet civil parish, extending in the other directions, became Friern Barnet Urban District which existed between 1883 and 1965. St Paul's Church, New Southgate was consecrated in 1873, taking part of its parish from Christ Church, Southgate and part from St James
624-512: The 1930s. These include Arnos Pool and Bowes Road Library, both of which underwent major refurbishment in the mid-2000s, like Arnos Grove tube station. The library and swimming pool, along with Arnos Park, the extensive facilities at Arnos Grove station (such as Ash House, the seven sidings, and three tracks through the station with four platforms) and the proximity of Arnos Grove to the North Circular , which had been built in 1929, made Arnos Grove
663-512: The Early English style under the direction of George Gilbert Scott , was consecrated in 1873. It consists of chancel with north and south chapels and south bell turret and aisled nave. The fabric, severely damaged by bombing in 1944, was restored by R. S. Morris by 1957. A stone vicarage, built in Woodland Road opposite the church in 1878–80, was demolished in 1964. A parish hall was built to
702-575: The Great, Friern Barnet , the latter transferring land east of the Great Northern Railway . The extant ecclesiastical parish boundary likewise traverses the boroughs of Enfield and Barnet while additionally a small portion is within the London Borough of Haringey , Bounds Green Ward. Many tens of acres were bought and used by the second county lunatic asylum for Middlesex , as maps of before World War II show. The later mental health hospital on
741-501: The Middle Ages." London boroughs are the result of amalgamations of hundreds of ancient parishes that date from at least the 12th century and are in some cases based on earlier manors . Download coordinates as: These are the areas of London that are variously described as districts, neighbourhoods, suburbs, towns or villages. New Southgate New Southgate is a residential suburb straddling three Outer London Boroughs:
780-848: The area each year. Other main routes include the A109 (south-north from Wood Green to Whetstone ), the A1003 (westbound to Friern Barnet and North Finchley ), and the A1110 (eastbound to the North Circular Road). A two-way cycle track runs adjacent to the eastbound carriageway of the North Circular Road. The cycleway is segregated from traffic and carries cyclists westbound towards Henley's Corner (near Golders Green ). A shared-use path for cyclists and pedestrians runs northbound from New Southgate to East Barnet through Brunswick Park . The route
819-587: The eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities. Mark Twain described London in 1896 as "fifty villages massed solidly together over a vast stretch of territory". Steen Eiler Rasmussen observed in 1934 that "London became a greater and still greater accumulation of towns, an immense colony of dwellings where people still live in their own home in small communities with local government just as they had done in
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#1733084890376858-722: The former place name use is shown by New Southgate railway station , renamed five times. Changes in this terminology reflect social stigma to a large residential institution, in this case the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum , built in 1851, which co-provided for Middlesex and as such continued to serve much of London after London County Council was founded in 1889. The later mental health hospital closed in 1993 and has been redeveloped into two housing estates, Princess Park Manor and Friern Village in New Southgate. The low-rise residential area with some mid-rise pockets and many small parks, recreation grounds, schools and playgrounds
897-458: The hamlet had 12 of 78 taxable houses in the narrow parish in 1795; but 33 inhabited houses in Colney Hatch are recorded in 1801. This co-parent parish extended a total of 3 miles (4.8 km) west, Friern Barnet . Maps show the name Colney Hatch, interchangeably with New Southgate, coming to cover the more developed hamlet Betstyle, in the chapelry of Southgate within the parish of Edmonton ;
936-560: The house and estate Arnos Grove , which is now pronounced as though it never had an apostrophe. On 19 September 1932 Arnos Grove Underground station was opened, as part of the extension of the London Underground Piccadilly line to Cockfosters . In the years that followed Arnos Grove changed from a rural area to being fully developed – the part of the estate to the north of Arnos Park was, for example, built up by 1939. The main public facilities at Arnos Grove were built in
975-404: The north of the church in 1908. In 1910 the more stridently Protestant, Baptist United Reform church, Christ Church New Southgate & Friern Barnet was built. The Catholic Church , Our Lady of Lourdes dates to the mid 20th century. New Southgate was home to Jerome K Jerome , writer of Three Men in a Boat , who lived on Springfield Road. He is commemorated with a statue of a boat and
1014-534: The north, including Potter's Bar and Welwyn Garden City . Southbound services travel towards King's Cross or Moorgate (in the City ) via Finsbury Park . The station was built in 1851 and its name has changed several times over the years, often sharing its name with Colney Hatch and Friern Barnet. Arnos Grove is the closest tube station, on the Piccadilly line . This line too runs southbound towards Finsbury Park and King's Cross, although trains continue towards
1053-475: The north-west side near to Brook House; The Priory, north-east with Woodlands, Greenbank, and Springfield to the north to which were added the Hermitage and several cottages on the south-west corner by 1783. It saw very little change in the 19th century before the construction of the county lunatic asylum: in 1882 Colney Hatch was described "as a village which had sprung up to serve the staff". However Colney Hatch
1092-442: The park, which contains diverse woodland but is mostly grassy fields. A large brick viaduct , with 34 numbered arches, carries the Piccadilly line beyond Arnos Grove tube station towards Southgate through the western end of the park. The park contains a large playground for children as well as several tennis courts. The Pymmes Brook Trail passes through the park. Also, evidence of the abandoned New River loop can be found within
1131-449: The refined hamlet and grand asylum outweighed the initial stigma in official maps and deeds, but less so in social organisations and in the naming of the railway station, the line of which resembles the historic split between the two parishes and later districts including today's boroughs. The crossroads of Colney Hatch had Halliwick manor house standing north of some cottages on the south-west corner; The White House and The Orange Tree Inn on
1170-490: The site closed in 1993. It was redeveloped into two housing estates, Princess Park Manor and Friern Village in New Southgate. The Anglican church in New Southgate is the first locally. It originated in 1870 in a mission to the new district of Colney Hatch by the assistant curate of the church built seven years previously in Southgate. In 1873 it became a consolidated chapelry in parts of Southgate and Friern Barnet parishes, with
1209-559: The southern edge of New Southgate. The road links the area directly to the M1 , M11 , and M4 roads, and to major areas elsewhere in London such as Chiswick , Wembley , and Ilford . According to Inrix , the A406 between East Finchley and Edmonton (which passes through New Southgate), is the sixth most congested stretch of road in the UK. Inrix estimated in 2019 that 43 hours are 'lost' in traffic jams in
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1248-522: The trees in the north side of the park. Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic Church. The Parish was established in the Diocese of Westminster in 1923, and mass was said in the presbytery until the church was built in 1935. Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Primary School was built in 1972 on the land owned by the Church to provide an education for the children of the parish. St. Paul's , in Woodland Road,
1287-455: The vicar of Southgate as patron. Attendance on census Sunday 1903 was 206 in the morning and 265 in the evening. Services were held in a temporary building in Ely Place until a church was built on land between Betstyle Road (later High Road) and Woodland Road probably given by G. Knights-Smith, one of the largest subscribers. The foundation stone was laid in 1872 and the church, built of stone in
1326-735: The work of architect Charles Holden . These buses serve Arnos Grove: List of areas of London London is the capital of and largest city in England and the United Kingdom . It is divided into the City of London and 32 London boroughs , the result of amalgamation of earlier units of administration that can be traced back to ancient parishes . Each borough is made up of many smaller areas that are variously called districts, neighbourhoods, suburbs, towns or villages. John Strype 's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London , Westminster , Southwark and
1365-426: Was concentrated in the east on what had been Betstyle, 1 mile (1.6 km) from the rural centre of the ancient, that is to say medieval-founded, elongated parish of Friern Barnet to the northwest. The name Colney Hatch Park was used by some developers for this area; however the new name New Southgate was increasingly adopted. Parishes had taken over from manorial courts by devolution to their vestries chiefly in
1404-492: Was from 1851 slowly erased from the names of schools, churches and most other organisations as residents sought to distance themselves from a lingering social stigma from passers-by and social gossip across the county of the large mental health institution. The vast site operated for many decades, first under an enforced mass segregation regime which was later abolished nationwide, to treat the mentally unwell — Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum . All 19th century urban development
1443-458: Was largely undeveloped and rural. As its name suggests it was not a manor, parish or district in its own right. Edmonton which included all parts of Southgate was one of five parishes of Edmonton Hundred , one of five hundreds in Middlesex . The heart of the hundred became the London Borough of Enfield . As new parishes arose, the area became, in turn, a westerly part of Southgate upgraded from
1482-523: Was permitted to enclose much of its area through the widespread legal practice of inclosure of the common land to create the former park, the heart of which is now public parkland. It is close to its borough's borders with two others: Barnet and Haringey . The area is centred 1km north of the North Circular Road . The modern area of Arnos Grove is centred on the western end of Bowes Road . The estate from which it gets its name centred on what
1521-401: Was upgraded with a church in 1862 and installed with stained glass windows in 1865 by D.G. Rossetti by which date it had many isolated streets of housing to serve such as around the crossroads at Betstyle (also written as Betstile). West parts from 1409 until the 20th century were frequently referred to in title deeds as Colney Hatch. Development was tightly constrained. It was estimated
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