Oakleigh Park
Oakleigh Park is a place in the London Borough of Barnet. It adjoins Whetstone, and is often regarded as part of it. However, it has its own identity and its own station.
The principal road is Oakleigh Road North. Turnings off this road include Oakleigh Park North, Oakleigh Avenue and Oakleigh Park South.
The name is a relatively modern invention, possibly influenced by Oakwood.
Nearest places:
- Totteridge
- Woodside Park
- Brunswick Park
- Whetstone
- Friern Barnet
- North Finchley
- East Barnet
- New Barnet
- Osidge
- Southgate
- Cockfosters
Nearest station:
Nearest tube station:
The Betjeman connection
In John Betjeman’s poem, ‘The Outer Suburbs’ (1932), there is a reference to Oakleigh Park as ‘Oakley Park’: ‘The weary walk from Oakley Park/Through the soft suburban dark’. This is not a spelling that occurs elsewhere, but may be personal idiosyncrasy, rather than a simple mistake, given that Betjeman was, at the time, a schoolmaster in the area. (It could possibly be childhood association. The Betjemans became acquainted with a family called Oakley during holidays in Cornwall; see Bevis Hillier (1988) Young Betjeman. The person universally associated with that name – the American sharp-shooter, Annie Oakley, who died in 1926 – also spelt her name thus.)
| London Borough of Barnet | ||
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Arkley · Barnet · Barnet Gate · Brunswick Park · Burnt Oak · Childs Hill · Cricklewood · Church End Finchley · Cockfosters · Colney Hatch · Colindale · East Barnet · East Finchley · Edgware · Finchley · Friern Barnet · Golders Green · Monken Hadley · Hale · Hampstead Garden Suburb · Hendon · Mill Hill · Mill Hill East · New Barnet · New Southgate · North Finchley · Oakleigh Park · Osidge · Temple Fortune · Totteridge · West Hendon · Whetstone · Woodside Park |
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| Parks and open spaces in Barnet | ||
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