Welcome to Visit East Finchley Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in East Finchley
Visit East Finchley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best East Finchley places to visit. A unique way to experience East Finchley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore East Finchley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting East Finchley Walkfo Preview East Finchley is situated 5.4 miles (8.7 km) northwest of Charing Cross. It is separated from the rest of Finchley by the North Circular, with North Finchley and West Finchley to the north, and Finchley Central (Church End) to the northwest. It has the greenest high road in London, with most of the area falling into the London Borough of Barnet. When you visit East Finchley, Walkfo brings East Finchley places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
East Finchley Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about East Finchley
Visit East Finchley – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 281 audio plaques & East Finchley places for you to explore in the East Finchley area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best East Finchley places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
East Finchley history
The land on which most of East Finchley now stands was once part of the Bishop’s hunting ground. The Bishop of London built a road through his land, named The Bishop’s Avenue, which still exists today. Pubs such as The Old White Lion, The Bald Faced Stag, and The Five Bells (on East End Road) sprang up to provide rest for people using the road.
Why visit East Finchley with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit East Finchley places with Walkfo East Finchley to hear history at East Finchley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo East Finchley has 281 places to visit in our interactive East Finchley map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout East Finchley, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at East Finchley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to East Finchley & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo East Finchley tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in East Finchley
Best East Finchley places to visit
East Finchley has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied East Finchley’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo East Finchley’s information audio spots:
Whittington Stone The Whittington Stone is a monumental stone and statue of a cat at the foot of Highgate Hill, a street in Archway . It marks roughly where it is recounted that a forlorn Dick Whittingon heard Bow Bells ringing from 4+1/2 miles (7.2 km) away .
St Joseph’s Church, Highgate St Joseph’s Church is a parish of the Catholic Church on Highgate Hill, in the Diocese of Westminster, London . It was founded by the Passionist Congregation in 1858 . It is a grade II listed building .
Colney Hatch Colney Hatch is the name of a small district within the London Borough of Barnet. The area is predominantly residential with a mixture of Victorian and Edwardian houses and much more recent development.
North Finchley North Finchley is situated 7 miles (11 km) north-west of Charing Cross. It is situated on Tally Ho Corner, the junction of the roads to East Finchley, Church End, Friern Barnet and Whetstone. Church End is often known as Finchley Central, owing to the name of the tube station located there.
Oakleigh Park Oakleigh Park is a loosely defined district in the north of the London Borough of Barnet. It adjoins Whetstone, and is often regarded either as part of East Barnet or of East London. The name is a relatively modern invention, after the eponymous station which opened in 1873.
Temple Fortune Temple Fortune is a place in the London Borough of Barnet to the north of Golders Green. It is principally a shopping district used by residents of the Hampstead Garden Suburb. Religious buildings include the Catholic Church of St Edward the Confessor, St. Mary & Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church and North Western Reform Synagogue.
East Finchley East Finchley is situated 5.4 miles (8.7 km) northwest of Charing Cross. It is separated from the rest of Finchley by the North Circular, with North Finchley and West Finchley to the north, and Finchley Central (Church End) to the northwest. It has the greenest high road in London, with most of the area falling into the London Borough of Barnet.
Church End, Finchley Church End is an old village, now a suburban development, centred 7 miles (11 km) north-northwest of Charing Cross. Aside from its church it centres on Finchley Central Underground station.
Woodside Park Woodside Park is a suburban residential area in Barnet, London. It is located in the North Finchley postal district of N12.
Claremont Road Ground The Claremont Road Ground was a former football ground in Cricklewood, UK. It was the home ground for Hendon Football Club for 81years before being demolished in 2006.
Visit East Finchley plaques
139 plaques hereEast Finchley has 139 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo East Finchley plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit East Finchley using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each East Finchley plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience East Finchley audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in East Finchley allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of East Finchley’s 281 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore East Finchley freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore East Finchley Map App
Our visit East Finchley map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in East Finchley & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s East Finchley tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the East Finchley centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit East Finchley area at LONG:-0.17534, LAT:51.59016.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore East Finchley, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
Things to do & visit in East Finchley / surrounding areas
● Parkland Walk ● The Church Studios ● Hornsey Lane ● Hornsey Town Hall ● Crouch End Hill ● Archway, London ● Vantage Point ● Vantage Point ● Vantage Point ● Archway Tavern ● Archway Tavern ● Archway Tavern ● Crouch End ● Crouch End ● The Queens, Crouch End ● The Queens, Crouch End ● Topsfield Hall ● Archway Hospital ● Crouch End Hippodrome ● Crouch End Hippodrome ● Whittington Stone ● Whittington Hospital ● St Joseph’s Church, Highgate ● Highgate Hospital ● Hornsey ● Priory Park, Haringey ● The Winchester, Highgate ● Lauderdale House ● Hornsey (parish) ● Cholmeley Lodge
● Waterlow Park ● Hornsey War Memorial ● Hornsey Central Hospital ● Highgate ● Thornhill Cemetery and Cardiff Crematorium ● Opal Whiteley ● Dartmouth Park ● The Magdala ● South Hill Park, London ● The Duke of Hamilton ● New End Theatre ● New End Hospital ● Hampstead Meeting House ● Lahd Gallery ● Fenton House ● Old White Bear ● The Holly Bush, Hampstead ● Admiral’s House, Hampstead ● Netley Cottage ● Upper Flask ● Cannon Hall, Hampstead ● Gardnor House ● Abernethy House ● Upper Terrace House ● Mount Vernon House, Hampstead ● The Flask, Hampstead ● Gang Moor ● St Mary’s Church, Hampstead ● Wells Tavern, Hampstead ● Moreton House, Hampstead ● Capo Di Monte, Hampstead ● The Logs ● Everyman Cinema, Hampstead ● Pentameters Theatre ● Gainsborough Gardens ● Hampstead War Memorial ● Jack Straw’s Castle, Hampstead ● Heath House, London ● St John-at-Hampstead ● Greenhill, Camden ● Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel ● Sun House, Frognal ● Shepherd’s Well, Frognal Way ● One Oak, Frognal ● Frognal and Fitzjohns (ward) ● Downshire Hill ● Hopkins House, Hampstead ● St John’s Downshire Hill ● Inverforth House ● Sarum Chase ● The Elms, Hampstead ● The Old Bull and Bush ● Wyldes Farm ● Golders Hill Park ● The Advertising Archives ● Hampstead Heath Woods ● Spaniards Inn ● Parliament Hill, London ● Childs Hill ● Turner’s Wood ● Hampstead Heath Ponds ● Kenwood House ● Golders Green Hippodrome ● Golders Green War Memorial ● Heath Hall ● Childs Hill Park ● Spaniards Mount ● Athlone House ● Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre ● Witanhurst ● Holly Lodge Estate ● Beechwood House, Highgate ● Golders Green ● 1920 Golders Green Handley Page O/400 crash ● 5, The Grove ● The Bishops Avenue ● The Flask, Highgate ● Basing Hill Park ● Charles Cruft (showman) ● Golders Green Jewish Cemetery ● Golders Green Estate ● Golders Green Crematorium ● Bloom’s restaurant ● Bounds Green TMD ● Alexandra Park Racecourse ● 2014 World Championship of Ping Pong ● Stamp World London 1990 ● 2012 Holland Heineken House ● The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream ● Bounds Green ● O.R. Tambo Recreation Ground ● Golf Course Allotments ● Bluebell Wood, London ● Muswell Hill Baptist Church ● New London Performing Arts Centre ● Muswell Hill ● Muswell Hill Library ● Guy Chester Centre ● W. Martyn grocers shop ● O’Neill’s pub, Muswell Hill ● Everyman Cinema, Muswell Hill ● Birchwood Mansions, Muswell Hill ● United Reformed Church, Muswell Hill ● St James’s Church Hall ● Highgate Wood telephone exchange ● The Gables, Muswell Hill ● Syro-Malabar Catholic Church of London ● Queen’s Wood ● Coppetts Wood Hospital ● Ambitious about Autism ● St Paul’s Church, New Southgate ● Highgate Wood ● Coldfall Wood ● Christ Church New Southgate & Friern Barnet ● All Saints’ Church, East Finchley ● Colney Hatch ● Coppett’s Wood and Scrublands ● Jacksons Lane ● St John, Friern Barnet ● Highgate Hill Cable Tramway ● Upstairs at The Gatehouse ● Highpoint I ● Highgate Private Hospital ● Bethune Park ● Friern Barnet Town Hall ● Friern Barnet ● Manor of Halliwick ● Friary Park ● St James the Great, Friern Barnet ● Friern Barnet Parishioners War Memorial ● Finchley Common ● Lawrence Campe Almshouses ● North Finchley ● Glebelands Local Nature Reserve ● Hadley Wood & Wingate F.C. ● Wingate & Finchley F.C. ● Enfield Borough F.C. ● Whetstone, London ● Oakleigh Park ● Christ Church North Finchley ● Grand Arcade (Barnet) ● Gaumont Finchley ● Strawberry Vale Estate ● The Tally Ho, Finchley ● Finchley Lido ● Artsdepot ● London Studio Centre ● Brent Cross Shopping Centre ● Brent Cross ● Brent Cross Cricklewood ● Coalition for a Sustainable Brent Cross Cricklewood ● Clarefield Park ● Princes Park, Temple Fortune ● Hendon Way ● Hendon Park ● Golders Green Beth Hamedrash ● Clitterhouse Recreation Ground ● Ohel David Eastern Synagogue ● Brent Park, Hendon ● Etz Chaim Yeshiva (London) ● Hendon ● Mutton Brook ● Temple Fortune ● North Western Reform Synagogue ● Jewish Military Museum ● Hendon War Memorial ● Free Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb ● St Jude’s Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb ● Municipal Borough of Hendon ● Hendon Town Hall ● Finchley United Synagogue ● Henlys Corner ● Barnett Homestead ● Big Wood and Little Wood ● St Mary’s Churchyard, Hendon ● St Mary’s Church, Hendon ● Church Farmhouse Museum ● Hampstead Garden Suburb ● London Seminary ● Sunny Hill Park ● Avenue House ● Lyttelton Playing Fields ● Sternberg Centre ● Avenue House Grounds ● Ashley Lane (Hendon) ● St Mary-at-Finchley Church ● Convent of the Good Shepherd, Finchley ● Dollis Valley Greenwalk ● St Margaret’s United Reformed Church, Finchley ● Barnet Copthall ● Copthall Railway Walk and Copthall Old Common ● Bittacy Hill Park ● Phoenix Cinema ● Bobath Centre ● Cherry Tree Wood ● Fortis Green ● Market Place, Finchley ● Belvedere Court ● East Finchley Methodist Church ● East Finchley Baptist Church ● East Finchley Library ● East Finchley ● St Anne’s House, East Finchley ● Holy Trinity East Finchley ● Long Lane Pasture ● Hawthorne Dene (house) ● Municipal Borough of Finchley ● London Greek Radio ● Lakeside Nature Reserve ● Finchley ● Finchley Memorial Hospital ● Victoria Park, Barnet ● Church End, Finchley ● Finchley Reform Synagogue ● Finchley Methodist Church ● Finchley War Memorial ● Dollis Brook Viaduct ● Finchley Meeting House ● Finchley Progressive Synagogue ● St Alban’s Catholic Church, North Finchley ● Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum ● Church of St Cyril of Turau and All the Patron Saints of the Belarusian People ● Woodside Park ● Inglis Barracks ● Burtonhole Lane and Pasture ● Woodridge Nature Reserve ● Swan Lane Open Space ● Municipal Borough of Hornsey ● Tomb of Karl Marx ● Highgate Cemetery ● Keats House ● Christ Church, Hampstead ● Romney’s House ● Burgh House ● Church Row, Hampstead ● Hampstead Heath ● Alexandra Park, London ● Alexandra Palace ● Evangelical Library ● St James’ Church, Muswell Hill ● New Southgate ● Friern Hospital ● St Pancras and Islington Cemetery ● La Délivrance ● East Finchley Cemetery ● Finchley Gap ● Folly Brook ● The Grove, Highgate ● Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution
Getting to / around East Finchley – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in East Finchley using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following East Finchley places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local East Finchley Public Transport Stations
East Finchley Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Crouch End railway station
Archway tube station
Archway tube station
Archway tube station
Hampstead Heath railway station
Hampstead tube station
Hampstead railway station (Metropolitan & St John’s Wood Railway)
North End tube station
Golders Green tube station
Alexandra Palace railway station
Alexandra Palace television station
Alexandra Palace railway station (1873–1954)
Bounds Green tube station
Muswell Hill railway station
Cranley Gardens railway station
New Southgate railway station
Highgate tube station
Brent Cross tube station
Brent Cross bus station
Hendon Central tube station
East Finchley tube station
Finchley Central tube station
West Finchley tube station
Mill Hill East tube station
Woodside Park tube station
Mill Hill Substation Pastures
Winscombe Street
Tivoli Road
Priory Road drill hall, Hornsey
6 Ellerdale Road
1993 Finchley Road bombings
Finchley Road
107–123 Muswell Hill Road
2 Willow Road
Claremont Road Ground
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Local East Finchley historians & East Finchley tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to East Finchley? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives East Finchley’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your East Finchley place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing East Finchley Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit East Finchley destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-East Finchley’ web pages (for example: www.visitEast Finchley.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336
Visit East Finchley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best East Finchley places to visit. A unique way to experience East Finchley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore East Finchley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
With 281 audio plaques & East Finchley places for you to explore in the East Finchley area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best East Finchley places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
You can visit East Finchley places with Walkfo East Finchley to hear history at East Finchley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo East Finchley has 281 places to visit in our interactive East Finchley map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout East Finchley, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at East Finchley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to East Finchley & the surrounding areas.
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