Finchley Travel Guide

 Kap2 Says:  A beautiful park, especially in May with the trees in blossom, tulips and other flowers in bloomthere is a cafe, public toilets, bowls club (the premier outdoor green in London, they spend £7,000 a year cutting and rolling the lawn!), tennis courts and a childrens play... 

 Kap2 Says:  Its quite suprising to find a farm in suburbia.... and rare breds of cows back in 2006.... though the main activity in the old dairy farm buildings is a pet food, tack and feed shop 

 Kap2 Says:  The church itself has an interesting history..... the church's website has more info... including this inscriptionGodolphin his race to rest hathe runeWhere grace recordes felycytieHis death is gone his lyff hathe wonneEternal perpetuityeThough William his corppes here dead... 

 Kap2 Says:  A group of Spikes friends and family have combined with The Finchley Society to raise funds for the creation of a bronze statue in Finchley. The aim is to raise ?30,000 and to unveil the statue in April 2006. The life-size statue will show Spike sitting on a bench and... 

 Kap2 Says:  This statue was erected to mark the victory of combined British and French forces over the Germans at the First Battle of the Marne between 5 and 12 September 1914. This statue, was made by Emile Guillaume, official name is La Delivrance, but locals know it as the Naked... 

 Kap2 Says:  The gardens are beatiful place to wander around. The house itself is not amazing, but its setting is perfect and it contains the the 'Inky' Stephens Collection. 

 Kap2 Says:  I'm not sure if this is a thing to do.... it takes imagination, thinking is a type of doing. In the Ice Age a massive galcier pushed the Thames outhwards to its current course. This ice was known as the Finchley Lobe an carved the lump of land that Finchley rest upon,... 

 Kap2 Says:  London's newest arts venue....It is situated between West Finchley, Finchley Central and Woodside Park tube stations on the Northern Line. West Finchley and Woodside Park are the closest stations, approximately half a mile away. Finchley Central has the best bus link, approx... 

 Kap2 Says:  You can see a copy of this map at Finchley Central station, where Mr Beck used to begin his journeys to work... 

 Kap2 Says:  The graveyard is mainly inhabited by figures from the 18th Century, including Honest Tom Payne, not to be confused the American revolutionary figure, who kept a famous bookshop before retiring to Finchley....also Major John Cartwright, a British military figure who was... 

 Kap2 Says:  If you really want to learn about Finchley, you can go to this library, upstairs there is a good reference section.... downstairs is the lending library, with dvd and a coffee machine, you'll need a token to use it, as you'll need to borrow a key to use the toilet... 

 Kap2 Says:  This is the best place to eat cheaply in Finchley, well apart from my own kitchen. It is basic food fry ups, baked spuds, sandwiches, omlettes but the service is much better than many so called restaurants. The choice of breakfast specials, my favourite is Set 3 with black...