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Encyclopedia Britannica



FINCHLEY

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 353 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FINCHLEY , an urban
district
  in the Hornsey parliamentary division of
Middlesex
 , England, 7 M. N.W. of St Paul's
cathedral
 , London, on a branch of the
Great
  Northern railway. Pop. (1891) 16,647; (1901) 22,126. A part, adjoining Highgate on the north, lies at an
elevation
  between 30o and 40o ft., while a portion ip the Church End
district
  lies lower, in the valley of the Dollis Brook. The pleasant, healthy situation has caused Finchley to become a populous residential district. Finchley Common was formerly one of the most notorious resorts of highwaymen near London; the
Great
  North Road crossed it, and it was a haunt of Dick Turpin and Jack
Sheppard
 , and was still dangerous to
cross
  at night at the close of the 18th century.
Sheppard
  was captured in this neighbourhood in 1724. The Common has not been preserved from the builder. In 1660 George Monk, marching on London immediately before the Restoration, made his camp on the Common, and in 1745 a regular and volunteer force encamped here, prepared to resist the Pretender, who was at Derby. The gathering of this force inspired Hogarth's famous picture, the "
March
  of the Guards to Finchley."


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