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Suburb of London

Friern Barnet ,/f//r//aɪər//n// /'/b//ɑːr//n//ᵻ//t/ is a suburban area within the London Borough of Barnet, 7.4 mile (12 km) north of Charing Cross. Its centre is formed by the busy intersection of Colney Hatch Lane (running north and south), Woodhouse Road (taking westbound traffic towards North Finchley) and Friern Barnet Road (leading east towards New Southgate).

The housing typically consists of late Victorian and early Edwardian properties, along with other large houses of later periods and many smaller semi detached and terraced houses. Much of the property is owner occupied, but in recent years many of the larger properties have been subdivided into flats and bedsitters. There are also some areas of modern housing, notably Princess Park Manor, a luxury redevelopment of the once famous Victorian institution the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum (later Friern Hospital).

Adjacent to Princess Park Manor is a modern housing development called Friern Village. This was once the area farmed by the Colney Hatch Hospital residents. In 1998 the newly formed local residents' association held a ballot among the new residents to find a name for this new area. The name Friern Village was chosen and subsequently the residents' association changed its name to the Friern Village Residents' Association. A new public park in front of Princess Park Manor, in Friern Barnet Road, was named Friern Village Park.

The Friern Barnet Retail Park near the North Circular Road houses several retailers including Currys PC World, B&Q and Furniture Village.

Friern Barnet is a leafy suburb of private gardens and trees and Friary Park. The area includes the North Middlesex Golf Club, whose main entrance is at the Whetstone end of Friern Barnet Lane, and Coppetts Wood nature reserve, a medium sized green area of rare plants and wildlife including some types of small bat and Great Crested Newts.

The Church of England parish church of St John The Evangelist in Friern Barnet Road is Grade II* listed. Friern Barnet Town Hall in Friern Barnet Lane was built in 1939–41 to a design by Sir John Brown and A. E. Henson. The design owes much to that of Watford Town Hall, whose architect (Charles Cowles Voysey) had played a pivotal role in judging the design competition. English Heritage lists it as "a good example of pared down modernism [whose] subtle form and pronounced sense of civic pride mark it out as an exceptional civic building, on this scale, of its day."

Local schools and colleges include Coppetts Wood Primary School, Friern Barnet School, Dwight School London (being the former Friern Barnet Grammar School), The Compton School, Woodhouse College, St John's CE Primary School, Holly Park Primary School and the Wren Academy.

The North Circular Road bisects the southern part. The nearest London Underground stations are Arnos Grove and Finchley Central. The nearest National Rail station is New Southgate. The area is served by London Buses routes 34, 43, 134, 221, 232, 234, 382, 634, 683 and SL1.