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High Barnet or Chipping Barnet is a town in the London Borough of Barnet. It is a suburban development located 10 miles (17 km) north north-west of Charing Cross and was formerly part of Hertfordshire.
The tower of Barnet parish church - St John the Baptist - at the top of Barnet Hill claims to be the highest point between itself and the Ural Mountains to the east[According to "A New Survey of England: Middlesex" by Michael Robbins, 1973]. However, the same has been said of numerous other points. Before the building of the Barnet bypass, Barnet Hill was a major hill on the Great North Road.
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