Broadfields or the Broadfields Estate is a neighbourhood of

Edgware Edgware () is a suburban town in northwest London. It was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex east of the ancient Watling Street in what is now the London Borough of Barnet but it is now informally considered to cover a wider area, inc ...

in the

London Borough of Barnet The London Borough of Barnet () is a suburban London boroughs, London borough in north London, England. Forming part of Outer London, the borough was formed in 1965 from parts of the ceremonial counties of Middlesex and Hertfordshire. It is the ...

in northwest London, UK.

History and geography

Broadfields occupies the northwestern corner of Edgware and the wider

. It is located 10.5 miles (16 km) northwest of

Charing Cross Charing Cross ( ) is a junction in Westminster, London, England, where six routes meet. Since the early 19th century, Charing Cross has been the notional "centre of London" and became the point from which distances from London are measured. ...

and the nearest

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station is

Edgware tube station Edgware () is a London Underground station in Edgware, in the London Borough of Barnet, North London. The station is the northern Terminal station, terminus of its branch of the Northern line and the next station towards south is Burnt Oak t ...

, located a short distance to the south. It is on the urban-rural boundary of the London suburban built-up area. The area mostly consists of 1930s, 1960s and 1970s housing, started in small part in 1927 but mostly John Laing's

houses with gardens built from 1936."Edgware and Burnt Oak"
London Borough of Barnet. Retrieved 2015-02-23 Ranging in elevation from 69 to 86 metres above sea level, Broadfields is west of the

Midland Main Line The Midland Main Line (MML), sometimes also spelt Midland Mainline, is a major Rail transport in Great Britain, railway line from London to Sheffield in Yorkshire via the East Midlands. It comprises the lines from London's St Pancras railway ...

immediately beyond which is the

M1 motorway The M1 motorway connects London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) motorway, A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle. It was the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the UK; the first motorway in the count ...

(these section off a small part of east

and the higher

Mill Hill Mill Hill is a suburb in the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is situated around northwest of Charing Cross, close to the Hertfordshire border. It was in the Historic counties of England, historic county of Middlesex until 1965, when it b ...

suburb). Two small headwaters rise here, one of which is named the Dean's Brook. Broadfields is north of the

A41 road The A41 is a trunk road between London and Birkenhead, England. Now in parts replaced by motorways, it passes through or near Watford, Kings Langley, Hemel Hempstead, Aylesbury, Bicester, Solihull, Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, New ...

which is a long-distance feeder to the M1 and the main road to

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and

Stanmore Stanmore is part of the London Borough of Harrow in Greater London. It is centred northwest of Charing Cross, lies on the outskirts of the London urban area and includes Stanmore Hill, one of the List of highest points in London, highest point ...

from central London. The area has two primary schools, a playground, and a sports ground. To the west is Edgwarebury Park, and to the north Edgwarebury and Bury farms, the former of which was not a manor but was documented as a notable farm in the customary taxation records (such as

feet of fines A foot of fine (plural, feet of fines; Latin: ''pes finis''; plural, ''pedes finium'') is the archival copy of the agreement between two parties in an English lawsuit over land, most commonly the fictitious suit (in reality a conveyance) known a ...

) from 1216. These farms sold a similar area of land to their present size to enable the estate to be built. It has a shopping parade including a chain grocery shop,

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and

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. Bus route

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terminates at Broadfields.Bus tender results Route 288
Transport for London 13 January 2006

References

{{LB Barnet Areas of London Districts of the London Borough of Barnet Edgware