The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Finchley Common

Middlesex (County [UK]), England


View Larger MapDescription of institution: An area of land in Middlesex, north of London, and until 1816. Its use as a common is quite late. Rights to the common were claimed by the inhabitants of Finchley at the beginning of the 15th century, and by the inhabitants of Friern Barnet, and Hornsey by the 16th century. URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finchley_Common