Barnet

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History of Barnet Gate

A western satellite of Barnet, at the junction of Barnet Road and Hendon Wood Lane. There was never a turnpike here, just a gate that prevented cattle from straying onto Barnet Common. It was first called Grendel’s Gate, after the monster slain by Beowulf, and it has been suggested that the use of such a portentous name may indicate a place of some significance in Saxon times. It was certainly more important than it is now, for manor courts were held here in the Middle Ages and Hendon Wood Lane was a busy thoroughfare that may have been a Roman road more