2010 in High Barnet
Eight Guided Walks

With Paul Baker, City of London guide

I’m starting the tours this year with a Battle of Barnet walk on Sunday Sunday January 24th at 11am.
We’re meeting at the usual place – the junction of the Great North Rd and Hadley Green Rd, by the old Cyma Garage and Pizza Express.
That’s followed by a walk in two parts on February 7th and 14th High Barnet and Monken Hadley.
These walks all cost £7.


On Sunday January 31st I’m doing a free walk for ‘Walk London’.
It’s from River Walkway outside City Hall (tube: London Bridge) to the Tate Modern, crossing two bridges and walking through the Square Mile: a marvellous route (they chose it).
It’s part of the Jubilee Walkway, and I’ll be doing it at 10.30am and again at 2.30pm. It should last about two and a half hours.

Do come if you can make it, and bring friends along. It’s completely free and open to all.

Looking a long way ahead, our slightly revised Xmas plans have enabled me to add a Christmas walk with a special Christmassy flavour!
I hope to see you before then.

  • Battle of BarnetThe Battle of Barnet
    Explore the famous battlefield of 1471.
    Step back in time to 1471.
    See how the course of English history was changed on this misty Easter Sunday morning. Hear about the first known 'friendly fire' incident in English history.
    Sun Jan 24th 11am, Sun Feb 28th 11am, Sun March 28th 11am, Sun June 6th 2.30pm, Sat July 31st 2.30pm, Sun Sep 5th 2.30pm, Sun Oct 10th 2.30pm, Sun Nov 28th 11am. Meet at junction of Great North Road and Hadley Green Road.
    Meet at junction of Great North Road and Hadley Green Road.
  • Ghost WalksThings That Go Bump in High Barnet
    A ghostly, ghoulish walk through High Barnet and Monken Hadley.
    See the pirate's grave. Hear stories of witchcraft and grisly executions.
    Suitable for adults and children, and anyone who likes to have the life scared out of them. For Halloween, there is a prize for the spookiest costume!
    Friday March 12th, Saturday May 1st, Saturday July 10th, Sunday July 25th, Saturday Sep 11th, Fri 29th/Sat 30th/Sun 31st Oct. (Hallowe’en: prize for spookiest costume!). All at 7.30pm.
    Meet outside High Barnet tube station. Please bring a torch if possible.

  • Smithfield - St Pauls - Old Bailey - Charterhouse 'A Stroll through Smithfield (including St Paul's Cathedral, Old Bailey and Charterhouse).'
    Saturday March 14th at 11am.
    Meet outside City Information Centre, St Paul's Churchyard (St Paul's tube).

     
     
  • East Barnet VillageHigh Barnet to Cockfosters
    This one will keep you fit!
    A mainly rural stroll across fields and Monken Hadley Common, taking in some stupendous scenery, a beautiful lake, and some spectacular views of Canary Wharf, 15 miles away.
    Sunday May 23rd, Sunday July 18th, Sunday Oct 3rd. All at 2.30pm
    Meet outside High Barnet tube station.
  • The Heart of High BarnetThe Heart of High Barnet
    A historical walk through High Barnet.
    See the brewery that became a town hall and a church that became a shopping centre.
    Marvel at some truly beautiful old houses and almshouses.
    Hear about a fair that was so famous that Cossacks flocked to it, and so infamous that the Victorians tried to close it down.
    Sunday May 10th and August 23rd at 2pm.
    Meet outside Barnet College, Wood Street, High Barnet.
  • Monken HadleyA Meander through Monken Hadley
    A historical walk through beautiful, unspoilt, Georgian Monken Hadley.
    This lovely village has some of the finest eighteenth-century houses in the country, lived in by some of the most famous names in English literature.
    This walk starts at the spot where the previous walk finishes, taking up the story from there.
    Sunday Feb 14th 11am, Sunday May 16th 2.30pm, Sunday Oct 24th 2.30pm.
    Meet outside The Spires, Barnet High Street.
  • Hendon CentralHooray For Hendon
    A thousand glorious years
    From the Domesday Book to Hendon Aerodrome and beyond.
    Sunday March 7th 11am, Sunday June 13th 2.30pm, Sunday Nov 7th 11am.
    Meet outside Hendon Central tube station.
  • East Barnet VillageEast Barnet Village
    A historical walk through ancient and modern East Barnet.
    See where a female heir to the throne was held prisoner, before escaping dressed as a man. Stroll down the ghost's promenade, and take a walk on the spooky side.
    Hear about the great houses that once covered this quiet rural spot, and the great men who stayed there, including a Poet Laureate and the founder of one of the most famous museums in the world.
    Sunday April 18th 11am, Sunday Aug 29th 2.30pm, Sunday Nov 21st 11am.
    Meet outside East Barnet Library, Brookhill Road.
  • 'Fabulous Finchley' Finchley Central
    1000 years of the history of Finchley Central and East Finchley
     An ancient road links two ancient villages.
    Along the way, you'll see lands once owned by the Knights Templar, and a former manor house which is haunted by a suspected lover of Anne Boleyn.
    You'll hear about two famous murders, and three world-famous comedians who lived in the area.
    Sunday March 21st 11am, Sunday July 4th 2.30pm, Sunday Nov 14th 2.30pm
    Meet outside Finchley Central tube station, Ballards Lane Exit.
  • Also:
    Huguenot Houses
    A French Huguenot Walk in Spitalfields’
    Sunday June 20th 11am.
    Meet outside Whitechapel Gallery, Whitechapel High St (Aldgate East tube).


All walks cost £7, except Smithfield: £6.
Accompanied under 12s £3.

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20th March 11.00am
The Institute
Art themed walks on Hampstead Heath
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