What to See in Potters Bar - Top Sights and Attractions

Christ Church, Cockfosters, is a conservative evangelical Anglican church in Chalk Lane, in the north London suburb of Cockfosters. It is about 200m from Cockfosters Underground station.^[1]

Covert Way is the only Local Nature Reserve in the London Borough of Enfield. It is also part of the Hadley Wood Golf Course and Covert Way Field Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade I, and it has an area of 7 hectares. It is on the southern border of Enfield between the road named Covert Way and Monken Hadley Common in Barnet.

Part of the site is semi-deciduous woodland which has woodpeckers and muntjac deer, and butterflies including white-letter and purple hairstreaks. In grassland areas there are the rare adder's-tongue fern and the locally scarce four-spot orb weaver spider.^[2]

Highlands Gardens is a small park in New Barnet at the western end of Leicester Road, on the corner with Abbotts Road. The park was opened in 1931 in the grounds of Highlands House which was demolished in about 1972 and replaced by flats.^[3]

Holy Trinity Lyonsdown is a Church of England parish church in New Barnet, London. The church was built in 1866.

The first incumbent was William Gibbs Barker.^[4]

Tudor Sports Ground is a public park between Clifford Road and the East Coast Main Railway Line in New Barnet in the London Borough of Barnet. It is one of Barnet's 'Premier Parks'.

The park is a large grassed area with scattered mature trees. The site is mainly devoted to a nine-hole 'pitch and pay' golf course, and it also has a cricket pitch, a tennis court, a basketball shooting area, children's playgrounds and a car park.

The park is adjacent to Monken Hadley Common on its northern side, and a footpath next to the railway on its eastern edge runs between Monken Hadley Common and New Barnet railway station.^[5]

Church in Potters Bar, England. St. Mary's Church is a Church of England church in The Walk, Potters Bar, England. It is in the Diocese of St. Albans. Services are in the Catholic tradition of the Church of England.

The church - designed by J. S. Alder - replaced the dilapidated St John's which was on the site now occupied by the Potters Bar war memorial. The foundation stone was laid by Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein in June 1914 and the church opened one year later.^[6]

The Albert Road gas holder in New Barnet, north London, is a disused gas holder on the site of the former New Barnet Gas Works with a capacity of 2,000,000 cubic feet of gas. It was built for the Barnet & District Gas and Water Company and came into use in 1934. It was decommissioned around 2009.^[7]

Cemetery in Potters Bar, England. Mutton Lane Cemetery, officially known as St Mary's Cemetery, is a cemetery in Mutton Lane, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, that is associated with nearby St Mary the Virgin and All Saints church. The cemetery includes a garden of remembrance for prisoners of war.^[8]

Ossulston House is a Grade II listed building opposite Joslin's Pond in Hadley Green Road, Hadley, to the north of Chipping Barnet. It is one of what was an almost complete line of houses between Chipping Barnet and Monken Hadley along the east side of Hadley Green which were built in the 18th and 19th centuries as wealthy merchants from London populated the area.^[9]

Hadley Lodge is a house in Hadley Green Road, Monken Hadley. The current house was completed around 1995 and replaced an earlier listed building of the same name that was destroyed by fire in 1981.^[10]

Hollybush is a grade II listed building on Hadley Green Road to the north of Chipping Barnet. The main house was built around 1790 and the adjoining small buildings on the left even earlier.^[11]

The Gate House and Gate, Monken Hadley, in the London Borough of Barnet, are grade II listed buildings The house is in the Gothic style, early nineteenth century. The gates are of timber and are one of a number of white timber gates that mark the main access points to Monken Hadley Common.^[12]

Potters Bar war memorial is located in St John's Churchyard in High Street, Potters Bar, England. The memorial was designed by the Arts and Crafts architect and designer C.F.A. Voysey and originally stood at the junction of Hatfield Road and The Causeway. It has been Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England since it was moved to its present location in December 1973. Voysey's only other free standing war memorial, the Malvern Wells War Memorial, was erected in 1920 in Malvern Wells in Worcestershire.

The memorial is on the site of the former St. John's Church which was replaced by St. Mary's Church, The Walk, in 1915 after St. John's became dilapidated.^[13]

Grandon is a grade II listed building on Hadley Green Road, in Monken Hadley, north of Chipping Barnet. The house faces Hadley Green and was once the home of the writers Fanny Trollope and her son Anthony Trollope.^[14]

Hadley Bourne is a grade II listed building in Dury Road, Monken Hadley, England.^[15]