Naked lady welcomes you to Finchley. Known affectionately by locals as Dirty Gertie or the Wicked Lady, the 16ft bronze statue, with a sword held aloft, stands at Henlys Corner where the A1, North ...

On the face of it, there’s hardly a more nondescript part of London than Finchley. Since the area saw the back of its former MP, the largely unknown, quietly-spoken mother-of-two Margaret Thatcher, in ...

Finchley is a long, narrow suburb cut in two by the North Circular, north London’s great dividing line. The southern part, East Finchley, is close to sought-after Hampstead and Muswell Hill, and ...

Covering a long, thin finger of north London, Finchley stretches from Hampstead Heath in the south to Whetstone in the north. Its emblem is the finch and the name is thought to be a contraction of ...