Ever heard of the London borough of New ... Clapham and Streatham became Lambeth. East Barnet, Friern Barnet, Hendon, and Finchley were merged into a single borough called Barnet.

The EN5 postcode, which includes north London borough Barnet, was recently found to be among the top 10 most expensive in the U.K Dictionary writer and author Samuel Johnson once famously observed ...