Potters Bar area

[Craftycakey15]

Can anyone tell me which are the best parts of Potters Bar (ie.schools mainly, shops) - it is one of the areas I am considering moving to. Thanks.

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The best parts are probably those around Potters Bar, like the fabulously rural Northaw and the lovely Brookmans Park. The former doesn't have shops but has a nice pub; the latter has some shops, cafes and a pub. I don't know the state schools apart from the excellent Dame Alice Owen's but there are some private options that are well regarded. Neither areas are as cheap as PB but are lovely.

Agree re villages. Do you need to be near the train station? PB has a good train service. Brookmans Park is on the PB line to Welwyn Garden City, but only the slow trains stop there. BP is also v expensive.

Are you looking at primary or secondary schools? Owen's is an excellent state secondary school, but is semi selective, and even if you have v clever children, it's so competitive, it can be a bit of a lottery as to whether you get in. The catchment for the non-exam children is eye-wateringly small.

I know the villages around are lovely but we need to live near the train line that goes to Moorgate so Potters Bar (or Cuffley if we have to) is where we are looking. To make it harder my husband wants to live about ten minutes walk to the station. We drove down there yesterday and looked around the roads near Billy Lows Lane - very nice, too expensive luxury houses or small bungalows!

Re schools, it's primary schools we are trying to think about right now. I know Dame Alice Owen's is great and hard to get into but dont know what the other schools (both primary and secondary) are like?

Did you look at Byng Drive or The Walk? Lots of semis there, may be more affordable?

I'm not familiar with primary schools but the two other secondaries in the area are Mount Grace (in Potters Bar itself) or Chancellor's in Brookmans Park. Lots of PB children go to Chancellor's, there's a bus and it's only 10 mins away. Chancellor's used to be ok years ago, not sure what it's like now.

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I'm looking for a regular fortnightly cleaner. 2 - 2and a half hours. / bedroom bungalow in Potters Bar. Can anyone recommend please

@mothduck

I'm looking for a regular fortnightly cleaner. 2 - 2and a half hours. / bedroom bungalow in Potters Bar. Can anyone recommend please

Start your own fresh thread in Mumsnet Local? Ask on a Potters Bar Facebook group? People won't read your post, they'll just read the OP's post from five years ago!

I wanted to know if it's safe to walk from potters bar to brookmans park Via the station road at 8am. Is it very lonely? Please can someone advise.

Do you mean the footpath that runs from PB station towards BP? That's quite muddy, and you'd be more in danger from slipping and injuring yourself than from being attacked! The area is quite safe.

It would be easier to get the train to BP. Or are you going to the vet college?

Thanks for responding. I'm new here, so wanted to check. Nice to know. I heard it was a nice walk in the woods, will take the train in that case.

There are nice walks between BP and PB. See this site, set up by someone who lives in BP. But everywhere is so muddy at the moment!
www.hertfordshirewalker.uk/2018/05/walk-68-brookmans-park-linear-1.html
www.hertfordshirewalker.uk/2018/06/walk-69-brookmans-park-linear-se.html

These look amazing! Would love to walk around here.