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This north London community has a world- class aviation museum, the country’s first shopping mall and a wildlife-packed nature reserve – along with prices that might delight first time buyers Hendon HOT spot
1 The fascinating RAF Museum 2 Watersports at Welsh Harp Reservoir 3 Shops galore at Brent Cross 4 Fantastic challah and bagels 5 Watching the Saracens play rugby 5 REASONS WE LOVE… HENDON
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Hendon’s green spaces offer plenty of potential for relaxation and action. Brent Reservoir, better known as the Welsh Harp, has watersports and wide open spaces, along with tranquil walking trails and bird watching in its nature reserve. Hendon Park features tennis courts and a cafe, while in the wilder space of Sunny Hill Park, visitors can enjoy meadows, woodlands, a playground and somewhere to sit and enjoy a drink. Slightly further afield, Mill Hill has a nature reserve and marks the start of the Dollis Valley Greenwalk, which stretches 10 miles along the Dollis Brook all the way to Hampstead Heath. For indoor recreation, Barnet Copthall Leisure Centre has three swimming pools, a gym, fitness classes and badminton; Hendon Leisure Centre has a gym, multi-sports, climbing wall and soft play; and Nuffield Health’s Hendon centre has a pool, sauna, gym and classes. Meanwhile, golf lovers can head to Hendon Golf Club for a full round or enjoy nine holes or adventure golf at Metro Golf Centre. If rugby is your thing, the mighty Saracens have their home at StoneX Stadium in Hendon and you can watch a match or take a tour.
year and a new Thameslink station opened there in 2023 – just one of the area’s excellent connection links. Hendon Central underground station (Zone 3+4) on the Northern Line provides direct access to King’s Cross, Leicester Square and Bank in around 20-25 minutes, while Hendon Station offers Thameslink services to London St Pancras in as little as 16 minutes and Luton airport in 38 minutes. Numerous buses have regular services to Brent Cross and beyond. Plus, plans are underway for the West London Orbital rail service that would offer added connections. For drivers, Hendon is just off the A41 and M1. Hendon is a varied community, with students from Middlesex University rubbing shoulders with a large Jewish population, and properties to suit all. Hendon Waterside offers new and used homes at varied
Hendon dates back to Saxon times and was recorded in the Domesday Book. Its woodlands supplied London’s bakers, brewers and potters with wood for fuel, then the woods became elds, providing hay for the capital’s horses. In the 17th and 18th centuries rich families moved there to get away from the city smog, but with the arrival of the railway in the 1860s, the city came to Hendon. Factories were built by the railway, and by the beginning of the 20th century around 22,000 people lived there. It was another improvement to public transport that brought the next phase of growth, when Golders Green station was opened in 1907 by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, now part of the Northern Line. This was followed in 1910 by the arrival of the Everett & Edgcombe aeroplane factory and air eld, that became RAF Hendon in 1925. Within a few years the local population had grown to 115,000 and Hendon became a municipal borough, containing Mill Hill, Burnt Oak, and Edgware, later becoming part of the London Borough of Barnet in 1965. The arrival of Brent Cross Shopping Centre in 1976, the country’s rst out-of-town, American-style mall, cemented the area’s popularity. Opened by Prince Charles, Brent Cross still attracts over 10 million shoppers a
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For a fantastic day out, look no further than the Royal Air Force Museum.This free- entry museum has over 100 aircraft – including the Spitfire, Lancaster Bomber and Vulcan – and tells the story of British military aviation history. It’s a favourite with families, with
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