Burnt Oak

Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	Maps for TQ205915
Administration
London borough:	Barnet
County level:	Greater London
Region:	London
Nation:	England
Other
Ceremonial county:	Greater London
Historic county:	Middlesex
Services
Police force:	Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade:	London Fire Brigade
Ambulance service:	London Ambulance
Media
ITV franchise:	ITV London
BBC region:	BBC London
BBC Local Radio:	BBC London 94.9
Post office and telephone
Post town:
Postal district:
Dialling code:	020
Politics
UK Parliament:
London Assembly:	Barnet and Camden
European Parliament:	London

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The name Burnt Oak was first used in 1754 and from then until the 1850s referred to no more than a field on the eastern side of the Edgware Road (Watling Street). Nor is there any evidence that the name implies anything except that the field had once contained a burnt oak tree. In May 1844 Burnt Oak field was sold to a Mr Essex, and by the 1860s plans were already in place to build an estate of three residential streets: North Street, East Street, and South Street. The application of the field name to the area seems to have followed from this new estate and was in use by the end of the 19th century. The modern Watling Street crossing the Medway at Rochester near the Roman and Celt crossings Watling Street is the name given to a British ancient trackway which was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern cities of Canterbury and St Albans. ...

Locals were supplied with a handful of shops by the 1890s. There was a local post office and grocers run by George and William Plumb, a bakers run by Caller & Poole, as well as James Huggett the greengrocers. A tramway along the Edgware Road to Cricklewood opened in 1905, but the population remained very small, by 1921 still only around 1000.

Burnt Oak tube station is a station on the Northern Line of London Underground and opened on 27 October 1924. It was first open on weekdays with a small booking hall suitable for a rural area. As it was situated on farmland south east of the community in Edgware Road, London Transport constructed a new road, Watling Avenue. In the same year news leaked out that the London County Council was to build a new housing estate (the Watling Estate), which was ready for its first occupants in April 1927. With this estate and other private estates the Burnt Oak area was provided with a new station by 1928, and the population by 1931 had grown to 21 545 people. Along both sides of Watling Avenue shops were built. In 1929 Jack Cohen used the name of Tescos in Burnt Oak for the first time, and thus founded the giant chain of stores. In 1936 the Watling Market opened with a hundred covered shops and stalls, and the Co-op opened its "finest department store" at the junction of Stag Lane and Burnt Oak Broadway. Burnt Oak is a station on the Northern Line of the London Underground in Zone 4. ... For other uses, see Northern Line (disambiguation). ... The nickname Tube comes from the circular tube-like tunnels through which the small-profile trains travel. ... Founded in 1933 by an act of Parliament under Transport Minister Herbert Stanley Morrison, The London Passenger Transport Board generally known London Transport was A public authority appointed under act of Parliament, charged with responsibility for providing an adequate and properly co-ordinated system of passenger transport (Buses including Green... London County Council emblem is still seen today on buildings, especially housing, from that era London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London from 1889 until 1965, when it was replaced by the Greater London Council. ... Tesco PLC (LSE: TSCO) is a United Kingdom-based international supermarket chain. ...