Woodside Park

For other places with the same name, see Woodside Park (disambiguation).

Woodside Park
Woodside Park  Woodside Park shown within Greater London
OS grid reference	TQ256925
London borough	Barnet
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LONDON
Postcode district	N12
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
EU Parliament	London
UK Parliament	Chipping Barnet
London Assembly	Barnet and Camden
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Woodside Park is a suburban residential area in London. It is located in the London Borough of Barnet, in postal district N12.

The area to the east of the tube station consists predominantly of large Victorian and Edwardian houses, many of which have been converted into flats. It also contains Woodside Park Synagogue and a Jewish school.

The western and north-western part of the area, which can also be regarded as the part of Totteridge in N12 rather than N20, is sometimes called Woodside Park Garden Suburb and consists of semi-detached or detached 3 to 4 bedroom houses built in the 1950s. It includes the Woodside Park Club. The eastern boundary of the Garden Suburb is the Dollis Brook and the southern boundary is the Folly Brook. To the south of this suburb is Woodside Park Garden Suburb proper, an area of 1920s and 1930s houses, where all but one of the roads (Links Road) are named after places in Sussex, where the developer, one Fred Ingram, came from.

Between the Garden Suburb and the Northern line is an area originally of Victorian housing. Many of the houses, including the former residence of Spike Milligan (now marked by a blue plaque placed in 2004 - see picture in this article), have been replaced by modern housing or flats. The estate where Emma Bunton grew up is also located in the area.

A house of special interest is Woodside Grange. This castellated folly was built by Dr. James Turle as a home and consultancy. It was later owned by Sir Arthur Douglas Derry the owner of Derry and Toms Store. In 1928 it was purchased as the home of Finchley Catholic Grammar School.

There is a small amount of commercial activity around the mini roundabout at Chanctonbury Way, which was originally the main shopping area for Woodside Park, providing basic services such as a post office, a butcher and an ironmonger. Since the creation of North Finchley shopping parade, many of the original shops have closed down and have been replaced by specialised businesses such as IT (Optima Computers), Web Designers (Webdezign), catering and Cut 4 U and Lias Hair and Beauty.

On the morning of September 15 2008 the key Lehman Brothers payment hub in Europe was shut down from a house in Woodside Park in anticipation of insolvency procedures.

Spike Milligan plaque

Geography

Nearest tube station:

• Woodside Park tube station