Potters Bar: Guide, Hotels, Map & Photos
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GBP 31 - 87 Premier Inn South Mimms/Potters Bar
 This Premier Inn is close to Knebworth House and Park and a 15-minute train journey from London Kings Cross. The A1(M) and M25 are within easy reach.
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 With free parking and free Wi-Fi, Days Inn South Mimms is located on the M25 junction 23 and the A1(M) junction 1.
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Potters Bar: Guide
Potters Bar is a town in Hertfordshire, UK, located 25 km (16 miles) directly north of London (it was in the county of Middlesex until 1965.)and is known aptly as the Gateway to the North. It has a population of about 22,000. The town started life in the early 13th century and remained more or less unchanged until the arrival of the railway in the 1850s.Potters Bar is the highest point above sea level in western Europe.
The origin of the Potters component of the town's name is uncertain but is generally thought to have been derived from evidence of a Roman Britain|Roman pottery that was thought to have been sited locally, or from the family Pottere who lived in the South Mimms parish. The Bar component is thought to refer to the gates leading from the South Mimms parish and into the Enfield Chase parish, or possibly from some sort of Toll road|toll on the Great North Road (United Kingdom)|Great North Road. The original "Bar" is said to have been at what is now the Green Man pub, or at the current entrance to Movern House.
The Great North Road, the original main road route from London to the north of England and ending at Edinburgh in Scotland, passed through Potters Bar High Street and Potters Bar is known as the Gateway to the North of England - originally numbered as the A1 (Britain)|A1, later the A1000 road|A1000. The A1 was built as a major (what was then called "arterial") road, and a crossroads at Bignells Corner linked the Barnet - St Albans Road with the A1. Potters Bar is now also served by junction 24 of the M25 motorway|M25.
Potters Bar was created an urban district of Middlesex in 1934. In 1965 the district was transferred to Hertfordshire while most of the rest of Middlesex became part of Greater London. In 1974 the urban district was abolished and the area became part of the borough of Hertsmere. The area was part of the Metropolitan Police Area until the creation of the Greater London Assembly, after which it came under the Hertfordshire police force.
Potters Bar railway station|Potters Bar station is the highest on the railway line between London's King's Cross railway station and York, and the town's name entered national headlines as the site of a Potters Bar rail crash|rail crash that killed 7 people and injured 76 on May 10, 2002.
Education
is a mixed Grant-maintained school in Potters Bar. Originally founded in 1613 and based in Islington until the 1960s, Dame Alice Owen's School is unusual in its traditions. The trustees of the Dame Alice Owen Foundation are the Worshipful Company of Brewers. It is a partly selective school (25% of its intake is on the basis of pupils doing well on its entry test). It also reserves some places for children from Islington. It specialises in languages, and offers GCSEs in a wide range of languages. It has recently become a music and science college on top of being a language college.
is a mixed Grant Maintained School in Potters Bar opened in 1954. The school used to be a Manor House which was turned into a school long ago, legend has it there are hidden tunnels under the school which go all around Potters Bar and up to the Train Station.
Potters Bar was the site of a fatal Potters Bar rail crash|train derailment on May 10 2002. Potters Bar is five miles south of Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield, scene of an earlier fatal train derailment on the same line.
Potters Bar has a List of King George V Playing Fields (Hertfordshire)|King George's Field in memorial to George V of the United Kingdom|King George V. Also in town there is Potters Bar Town F.C., a tennis club, a cricket club and a golf course.
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