- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
Potters Bar was originally a hamlet in the parish of South Mimms, Middlesex. Following the opening of a station on the Great Northern Railway it grew into a small town. In 1934 the old parish of South Mimms became the Potters Bar Urban District. In 1965 when the administrative county of Middlesex was abolished and mostly absorbed into Greater London, Potters Bar was one of two parts of Middlesex that chose not to become part of Greater London and was transferred instead to Hertfordshire where it became part of the new Hertsmere non-metropolitan District.
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Potters Bar is a town in Hertfordshire, England, north of central London. In 2011, it had a population of 21,882.[1]
Within the boundaries of the historic county of Middlesex, the town dates to the early 13th century but remained a small, mainly agricultural, settlement until the arrival of the Great Northern Railway in 1850. It is now part of the London commuter belt.
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