Editing Totteridge (section)

==History==
{| class="wikitable" align="right" style=font-size:85%;margin-left:10px; 
|+Totteridge (parish) population
!align="center"| 1881
|align="center"| 657
|-
!align="center"| 1891
|align="center"| 785
|-
!align="center"| 1901 
|align="center"| 844
|-
!align="center"| 1911 
|align="center"| 895 
|- 
!align="center"| 1921 
|align="center"| 801
|- 
!align="center"| 1931 
|align="center"| 1,024
|- 
!align="center"| 1941 
|align="center"| war #
|- 
!align="center"| 1951 
|align="center"| 4,500
|-
|style="font-size:smaller" colspan=2|# no census was held due to war
|- 
|style="font-size:smaller" colspan=2 align=center|source: [[Census#United Kingdom|UK census]]
|}

[[File:Barnet Civil Parish Map 1935.svg|thumb|left|A map showing Totteridge parish in 1935.]]
This area was called Tataridge in the 13th century. It may have been named after someone called Tata.<ref>{{cite book|last=Weinreb|first=Ben|title=The London Encyclopaedia|year=2008|edition=3rd|pages=922|isbn=978-1-4050-4924-5}}</ref> The ridge is the high ground between the valleys of the Dollis Brook and Folly Brook. Over the centuries the rural qualities of Totteridge have attracted well-to-do families. [[Henry Edward Manning|Cardinal Manning]] was born at Copped Hall in Totteridge in 1808.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09604b.htm|title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Henry Edward Cardinal Manning|website=www.newadvent.org|access-date=August 7, 2019}}</ref> With the opening of the [[Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)|Great Northern Railway]] station in 1872, late-[[Victorian era|Victorian]] and [[Edwardian]] mansions were built around the old village. In line with overall trends in the late 1930s, following the conversion of the railway station (in operation from 1872 until 1941) into a [[London Underground]] station (from 1940) on the [[Northern line]], smaller properties were built within walking distance of the station ([[Totteridge and Whetstone tube station]]). In 1968 much of Totteridge was designated a [[Conservation Area]], and no major developments have taken place since then.

Totteridge was a detached part of the parish of [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield]], [[Hertfordshire]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The hundred of Broadwater: Introduction and map {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol3/pp52-53 |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref> covering an area of {{convert|1604|acre|km2}}<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_AREA_A&u_id=10149101&c_id=10001043&add=Y Vision of Britain] – Census report – area of Totteridge parish</ref> and formed part of a narrow salient into [[Middlesex]]. It became part of [[Barnet Rural District]] and had a [[Parish councils in England|parish council]] from 1894 to 1914. It then formed part of [[Barnet Urban District]] from 1914 to 1965. In 1965, the parish and urban district were abolished by the [[London Government Act 1963]] and the area was [[List of Hertfordshire boundary changes|transferred from Hertfordshire]] to Greater London, to become part of the London Borough of Barnet. In 1901 the parish had a population of 844 and by 1951 it had risen to 4,500.<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TPop&u_id=10149101&c_id=10001043&add=N Vision of Britain] – Census report – population of Totteridge parish</ref>