Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index High Barnet or Chipping Barnet is a place in the London Borough of Barnet in Greater London, England. It lay on the border of the traditional counties of Hertfordshire and Middlesex. The town as the site of the Battle of Barnet in 1471, where Edward IV was killed. The town lies at the northern end of the Northern Line, and the association football team Barnet F.C play there. It was formerly the site of a well-known fair, hence the cockney rhyming slang "Barnet" for "hair". See also East Barnet, Friern Barnet, New Barnet This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.