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Visit Potters Bar and the surrounding villages and stay in bed & breakfast accommodation:
Potters Bar in Hertfordshire, population 22,000, is situated 16 miles north of London. The town's origins go back to the early 13th century. There is uncertainty about the derivation of the name: 'Potters' may have come from either a Roman pottery or the man called Pottere. 'Bar' refers either to the gates to South Mimms or a toll on the Great North Road.
The original Great North Road from London to Edinburgh in Scotland went through Potters Bar High Street and the town became known as "the Gateway to the North of England". In modern times it was numbered as the A1 and later renumbered to the A1000. Potters Bar is now also on the M25 at junction 24.
In 1965 the district was transferred from Middlesex to Hertfordshire.
Schools: Dame Alice Owen's School; Mount Grace School
Trivia: Potters Bar is the highest point above sea level in western Europe.
Town's infamy: Potters Bar was the site of a fatal train crash on May 10 2002. Potters Bar is five miles south of Hatfield, where there was an earlier fatal train derailment on the same line.
Town's fame (and recent news): A 14-year-old boy from Potters Bar went into the record books Wednesday 3rd January 2007 as the youngest person to sail single-handed across the Atlantic. Michael Perham took 47 days to reach Nelson's Dockyard in the Caribbean island of Antigua after crossing 3,500 miles of open water from Gibraltar.
Nearby villages: Northaw, Brookmans Park, Ridge, Colney Heath, Smallford, London Colney, Shenley, Essendon, Little Berkhamstead, Bayford, Brickendon, Elstree
Nearby towns: Hatfield, Barnet, Enfield, Waltham Cross, Broxbourne, Borehamwood.
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