Finchley Central is a popular name for the area called Church End Finchley Church End Finchley is a Ward in the London Borough of Barnet, popularly known, , as Finchley Central after the railway station changed its name in 1940. ...
At that time Finchley was part of the Bishop of London's lands and was probably not shown separately.
Finchley Common ran northwards from the edge of the Bishop's Park to the county boundary.
Finchley's development continued to be governed by the transport system and The Great North Road, first mentioned as such about 1690, provided a stimulus for the establishment of inns, smithies and other support services.
FinchleyCentral tube station is a London Underground station in the FinchleyCentral area of north London.
FinchleyCentral station was built by the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway (EHandLR) and was originally opened as Finchley and Hendon on 22 August 1867 by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) (which had taken over the EHandLR) in what was then rural Middlesex.
FinchleyCentral was the home station of Harry Beck, designer of the original Tube map, and features a commemorative plaque on the southbound platform together with a facsimile poster of Beck's design.
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