Barnet is a suburban borough of north London and the largest of London's borough by population. Known to the Anglo-Saxons as Baernet ("land cleared by burning"), Barnet's Monken Hadley section was the site of the 1471 Battle of Barnet during the Wars of the Roses, and it was part of Hertfordshire until it was incorporated into Greater London in 1965 as an outer borough. In 2018, Barnet had a population of 392,140 residents, with 64.1% being white, 18.5% Asian (8.62% of whom were Indian), 7.7% Black, 4.82% mixed, and 4.86% other. Barnet was a Conservative Party stronghold.
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