Barnet, a town in Hertfordshire, almost a suburb of London; a favourite resort of Londoners; has a large annual horse and cattle fair; scene of a battle in 1471, at which Warwick, the king-maker, was slain.
Population (circa 1900) given as 5,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Barnes, William * Barnett, John