Potter’s Bar Middlesex Family History Guide
Potter’s Bar is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Middlesex, created in 1835 from South Mymms Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Gannick Corner and Bentley Heath.
Alternative names:
- South Mimms St John the Baptist
- South Mimms St Mary the Virgin and All Saints
- South Mymms St Mary the Virgin and All Saints
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1835
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1835
Nonconformists include: Baptist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
POTTERS-BAR, a village and a chapelry in South Mimms parish, Middlesex. The village stands near the Great Northern railway, and near the boundary with Herts, 1 mile SE of a r. station of its own name, and 3 NNE of Barnet; and has a post-office under Barnet.
The chapelry contains also the hamlets of Gannick-Corner and Bentley-Heath, and was constituted in 1835. Pop., 959. Houses, 196. Wrotham Park is the seat of the Earl of Strafford. Salisbury House is a boarding-school for young gentlemen. There are several good residences.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of London. Value, £170. Patron, the Bishop of London. The church was built in 1835; is in the Norman style; and contains a fine monument to G. Byng, Esq., and a tablet by Westmacott to Lady Agnes Byng. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and an infant school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Middlesex
- Civil Registration District: Barnet
- Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (London Division)
- Diocese: London
- Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
- Poor Law Union: Barnet
- Hundred: Edmonton
- Province: Canterbury