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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  EAST BARNET LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	EAST BARNET UD (Local Government District)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "EAST BARNET":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ALBANS (St.)	Hertfordshire	ALBANS (St.) , a town, three parishes, a subdistrict, and a district in Herts. The town stands near the southern extension	Imperial
  ARKLEY	Hertfordshire	ARKLEY , a chapelry in East Barnet parish, Herts; a p. curacy in the diocese of Rochester. Statistics returned with the parish.	Imperial
  BARNET	Hertfordshire Middlesex	Barnet Common was discovered in 1652. At the twelfth milestone from London, N of the town, stands a stone column, commemorative of the battle of Barnet Field, fought there in 1471, between the army of the House of York, headed by Edward IV., and that of the House of Lancaster, headed by the Earl of Warwick. The parish of Barnet bears also the name of Chipping-Barnet; and lies wholly in Herts. Acres, together with the parish of East	Imperial
  Barnet, East	Hertfordshire	Barnet, East , par., S. Herts, 2 miles SE. of Barnet, 1699 ac., pop. 3992.	Bartholomew
  BARNET (East)	Hertfordshire	BARNET (East) , a parish in Barnet district, Herts; on the Great Northern railway, near Barnet station, 1¾ mile ESE of Barnet	Imperial
  East Barnet	Hertfordshire	East Barnet , ½ mile SE. of New Barnet sta., Herts; P.O. See BARNET, EAST.	Bartholomew
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	east and its west front, flanking pinnacled double buttresses, and an arcade of niches both above and below the great windows. The decorations of stained glass, painting, carving, and polychromy, especially in the octagon and the choir, are very rich, and have been undergoing much enhancement in the current repairs and restorations. The principal monuments are a coffin-lid of black marble, of the 12th century, in the choir-ambulatory; effigies or tombs of Bishops Northwold, Alcock, West, Gray, Red-mayne, Goodrich, and Hotham, in the choir; and monuments of Bishops Kilkenny, Barnet	Imperial
  FINCHLEY	Middlesex	Barnet district, Middlesex. The village stands 4¾ miles NNW of Finchley-Road r. station; and has two stations of Finchley-East	Imperial
  FINSBURY	Middlesex	Barnet, Finchley, and Hornsey. Acres, 11, 492. Pop. in 1851, 239, 788. Houses, 30, 863. -The sub-district is part of the parish and district of St. Luke, and consists of the portions known as East	Imperial
  HERTFORDSHIRE, or Herts	Hertfordshire	HERTFORDSHIRE , or Herts, an inland county; bounded, on the NW, by Beds; on the N, by Cambridgeshire; on the E	Imperial
  KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES	Surrey	Barnet, the largest fair in the S of England. The trade in corn, at the weekly market, is large; and there are malt houses, corn mills, flax mills, oil mills, breweries, and a distillery. The town was chartered by King John; sent members to parliament from 1311 to 1374; and is governed by a mayor, 8 aldermen, and 24 councillors. It is well supplied with water; and it has a new scheme of drainage, which was attempted to be resisted in 1865, as a nuisance to the Thames, but which was so modified in execution	Imperial
  Little Grove	Hertfordshire	Little Grove , seat, near East Barnet, Herts.	Bartholomew
  LONDON	London London	East Moulsey, Epsom, Ewell, Farley, Ham-with-Hatch, Hook, Kew, Kingstonupon-Thames, Long Ditton, Malden, Merton, Mitcham, Morden, Mortlake, Petersham, Richmond, Sanderstead, Sutton, Thames-Ditton, Wallington, Warlingham, West Moulsey, Wimbledon, and Woodmansterne; those in Kent are Beckenhani, Bexley, Bromley, Chislehurst, Crayford, Down, East Wicklham, Erith, Farnborough, Foots-Cray, H ayes, Keston, North Cray, Orpington, St. Mary Cray, St. Paul Cray, and West Wickham; those in Essex are Barking, Chigwell, Chingford, Dagenham, East Hain, Little Ilford, Loughton, Low Leighton, Waltham-Abbey, Walthamstow, Wanstead, West Ham, and Woodford; and those in Herts are Aldenham, Bushey, Cheshunt, Chipping-Barnet	Imperial
  Lyonsdown	Hertfordshire	Lyonsdown , eccl. dist., Chipping Barnet and East Barnet pars., Herts, pop. 128.	Bartholomew
  MIDDLESEX	Middlesex	Barnet, East Barnet, Totteridge, and Cheshunt, from Herts; comprises 176,555 acres; and is divided into the districts of Staines	Imperial
  Oakhill	Hertfordshire	Oakhill .-- seat, East Barnet par., Herts, 1 mile SE. of Barnet.	Bartholomew
  OAKHILL	Hertfordshire	OAKHILL , the seat of Lord Faversham in East Barnet parish, Herts; on an eminence, 1 mile S E of Barnet.	Imperial
  ROCHESTER	Essex Hertfordshire Kent	ROCHESTER , a city, a parish, and a sub-district, in Kent, and a diocese in Kent, Essex, and Herts. The	Imperial
  Trent	Middlesex	Trent , eccl. dist., Enfield and Monken Hadley pars., Middlesex, and East Barnet par., Herts, pop. 751.	Bartholomew
  YORK	Yorkshire	YORK , a city, a district, an ainsty, and a diocese, in Yorkshire. The city stands on Watling-street, on the	Imperial

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