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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  NEW 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 "NEW 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
  Barnet	Hertfordshire	Barnet , market town (ry. stations High Barnet and New Barnet), Chipping Barnet par., Herts, and Monken Hadley and South Mimms	Bartholomew
  East Barnet	Hertfordshire	East Barnet , ½ mile SE. of New Barnet sta., Herts; P.O. See BARNET, EAST.	Bartholomew
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	new design, at an estimated cost of upwards of £6, 000, as a memorial to the late Dean Peacock. The nave was built in 1150; is Norman; has thirteen bays, a lofty light triforium, of an arch in each bay beneath a larger arch, and a clerestory of three arches in each bay; and though plain and gloomy, derives striking effect from its size and height. The choir is chiefly early English; has three bays; exhibits a series of broad buttresses below, met by flying buttresses from the clerestory; posscsses much beauty in traceries, statue-niches, and crocketted pinnacles	Imperial
  FINCHLEY	Middlesex	Barnet district, Middlesex. The village stands 4¾ miles NNW of Finchley-Road r. station; and has two stations of Finchley-East-End and Finchley and Hendon on the London and Edgware railway, a post office‡ under London N, and a police-station. The parish includes also part of Whetstone village. Acres, 2, 899. Real property, £22, 571. Pop. in 1851, 4, 120; in 1861, 4, 937. Houses, 942. The property is much subdivided. Finchley common, a tract of upwards of 1, 000 acres, was long noted as a resort of highwaymen; and was also the place where	Imperial
  FINSBURY	Middlesex	New Church, with 520 s.; 7 of isolated congregations, with 1, 766 s.; 3 of Latter Day Saints, with 700 s.; 1 of the Catholic and Apostolic church, with 300 s; and 4 of Roman Catholics, with 2, 010 s. -The division is part of Ossulstone hundred; and excludes part of the borough, but includes Old Artillery Ground, Fryern-Barnet	Imperial
  HERTFORDSHIRE, or Herts	Hertfordshire	New River. Mineral springs are at Barnet, Clothall, Northaw, and Watton. Small pendicles on the NW and N border consist	Imperial
  KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES	Surrey	new cemetery, at Norbiton, is spacious, and has two chapels. The town has a post office‡ under London SW, two railway stations with telegraph, two banking offices, and seven chief inns; is a seat of Lent assizes, quarter sessions, petty sessions, and county courts, and a pollingplace; and publishes a weekly newspaper. A weekly market is held on Thursday; fairs are held on WhitThursday and the two following days, on 2 and 3 Aug., and on 13, 14, and 15 Nov.; and that in Nov. is, next to Barnet	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	New Brentford, Chiswick, Ealing, Heston, Isleworth, and Northolt; the p. curacies of Turnham-green, St. Mary Magdalene-Chiswick, ChristchurchEaling, Spring-grove, Hounslow, St. John-Isleworth, Norwood, and Southall-green. The deanery of Enfield contains the rectories of Finchley, Friern-Barnet	Imperial
  MIDDLESEX	Middlesex	New river, the Old river, the Brent, and the Cran. The rocks, or geognostic formations, over almost the entire area, are lower eocene, chiefly London clay; and they are extensively overlaid or mixed with alluvial gravel, and have been found to contain great numbers of fossils. Mineral springs are at Acton, Hampstead, Clerkenwell, and other places. About 150,000 acres are either arable land, meadow, or pasture. The soil is variously clayey, sandy, and gravelly; and has, in most parts, been worked into a fertile loam, by manuring and culture. Most farms average about 100 acres, but many comprise from	Imperial
  New Barnet	Hertfordshire	New Barnet , ry. sta., Herts, in SE. of co., 1½ mile E. of Barnet by road and 9 miles	Bartholomew
  New Southgate	Middlesex	partly also in Fryern Barnet par., Middlesex - dist., pop. 3006; the vil. is 3 miles SE. of New Barnet sta.	Bartholomew
  Oakleigh Park, Whetstone	Hertfordshire	Oakleigh Park, Whetstone , ry. sta., 1½ mile SE. of New Barnet sta., Herts.	Bartholomew
  ROCHESTER	Essex Hertfordshire Kent	new act, is divided into 3 wards, and governed by a mayor, 6 aldermen, and 18 councillors. The borough boundaries are the samemunicipally as parliamentarily; and include the two city parishes, the cathedral precinct, Strood-Intra and Media, and small parts of the parishes of Chatham and Frindsbury. Corporation revenue, about £4, 490. Amount ofproperty and income tax charged in 1863, £6, 103. Electors in 1833, 973; in 1863, 1, 584. Pop. in 1851, 14, 938; in 1861, 16, 862. Houses, 3,074. The sub-district comprises the two city parishes, the cathedral precinct, and a large part	Imperial
  Southgate, New	Middlesex	also in Fryern Barnet par., Middlesex - dist., pop. 3006; the vil. is 3 miles SE. of New Barnet sta. by rail.	Bartholomew
  YORK	Yorkshire	Barnet,- and again in 1478. Several of the events of these years figure in the dramas of Shakespeare, and in the novels of Lord Lytton. Richard III. visited the city in 1483; and is said, by some writers, but not on good grounds, to have been crowned in its cathedral. Henry VII. made a grand entry into it, in his progress in the north, in 1489; and his daughter Margaret was here in 1503. The rebels against the dissolution of monasteries took the city in 1536; but were speedily subdued, and their ringleaders executed. Henry VIII. made it the seat	Imperial

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