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Potters Bar

Potters Bar is a town of 22,000 people in . It was founded in the 13th century. It borders the northern part of metropolitan and is today very much in the city's commuter belt. The town is surrounded by Green Belt countryside.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Potters Bar railway station and Potters Bar Clinic.

Railway station
Photo: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Potters Bar in , England. It is located on the Great Northern route, 12 miles 57 chains north of on the East Coast Main Line.

Hospital
The is a mental health hospital in , UK which has 23 acute beds. It is currently owned and run by Elysium Healthcare. The hospital had two wards, Ruby and Crystal originally for men and women respectively.

Museum
Photo: Graham Hale, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brookmans Park and Hadley Wood.

Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in , southeast England, known for its . , on the East Coast Main Line, is operated by Great Northern.

Suburb
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is suburb of north , close to the border with . It is part of the , 11 miles north of , close to .

Village
Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the district of , England. It is part of the civil parish of , which was originally known as .

Potters Bar

Latitude
51.6959° or 51° 41′ 45″ north
Longitude
-0.1849° or 0° 11′ 6″ west
Population
21,900
Elevation
410 feet (125 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB POB
Open location code
9C3XMRW8+92
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27431951
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2639970
Wiki­data ID
Q19775
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Potters Bar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوترز بار”
  • Asturian: “Potters Bar”
  • Basque: “Potters Bar”
  • Catalan: “Potters Bar”
  • Cebuano: “Potters Bar”
  • Chinese: “波特斯巴”
  • Czech: “Potters Bar”
  • Danish: “Potters Bar”
  • Dutch: “Potters Bar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوترز بار”
  • French: “Potters Bar”
  • German: “Potters Bar”
  • Greek: “Πότερς Μπαρ”
  • Hungarian: “Potters Bar”
  • Icelandic: “Potters Bar”
  • Irish: “Potters Bar”
  • Italian: “Potters Bar”
  • Japanese: “ポッタース・バー”
  • Japanese: “ポッターズ・バー”
  • Japanese: “ポッターズバー”
  • Ladin: “Potters Bar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Potters Bar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Potters Bar”
  • Norwegian: “Potters Bar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Potters Bar”
  • Persian: “پاترز بار”
  • Polish: “Potters Bar”
  • Portuguese: “Potters Bar”
  • Romanian: “Potters Bar”
  • Russian: “Поттерс-Бар”
  • Serbian: “Потерс Бар”
  • Spanish: “Potters Bar”
  • Swedish: “Potters Bar”
  • Volapük: “Potters Bar”
  • Welsh: “Potters Bar”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Potters Bar”. Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.