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Potters Bar is a town in Hertfordshire, England, just north of London. It has a population of about 20,000. The town started life in the early 13th century and remained more or less unchanged until the arrival of the railway in the 1850s.It was originally part of Middlesex but was ceded to Hertfordshire in 1965 when most of the rest of Middlesex was subsumed into Greater London.
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 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 on the 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 - originally numbered as the A1, later the A1000. The A1 was built as a major (what was then called "arterial") road, and a crossroads at Bignells Corner linked the Barnet - St AlbansFor other places named St Albans see St Albans (disambiguation St Albans (thus spelt, no apostrophe or dot) is the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans in southern Hertfordshire, England, around 22 miles (35. 5km) north of London. It was Road with the A1. Potters Bar is now also served by junction 24 of the M25The M25 motorway is one of the UK's motorways. It is the orbital motorway which encircles London. It is approximately 117 miles (188 km) in circumference. The motorway is mostly three-laned although there are a few short stretches which are two-laned and.
Potters Bar station is the highest on the railway line between London's Kings Cross station and YorkThis article is about the English city. For other meanings, see York (disambiguation). York is a city in the north of England built at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. In 1991 the city had a population of 123,126. Its geographic coordinates are, and the town's name entered national headlines as the site of a rail crashThe Potters Bar rail crash occured on May 10, 2002 at Potters Bar, north of London, when a northbound train derailed at high speed, killing seven and seriously injuring another eleven. A West Anglia Great Northern train service left King's Cross station a that killed 7 people and injured 76 on May 10May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). There are 235 days remaining. Events 1291 Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England. 1497 Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cadiz for his first, 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom.
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