London/North

North London consists of the following boroughs:

• Barnet — the borough includes:
  • Barnet
  • Edgware
  • Finchley
  • Golders Green
  • Hendon
• Brent — the borough includes:
  • Wembley
  • Kilburn
  • Neasden
  • Willesden
  • Harlesden
• Enfield — the borough includes:
  • Enfield, Edmonton and Bush Hill Park
  • Palmers Green
  • Southgate
• Haringey — the borough includes:
  • Harringay
  • Crouch End
  • Muswell Hill
  • Tottenham
  • Wood Green
• Harrow — the borough includes:
  • Harrow, Harrow town centre is a bustling shopping and business area, while Harrow on the Hill, with the famous Harrow school, has remained almost unchanged for a hundred years.
  • Pinner, a suburban town with a Tudor high street dating back to the 14th Century.
  • Stanmore

Enfield can be split into four distinct areas:

Shopping here in Palace Xchange can be relatively expensive but there are some well-known stores such as United Colours Of Benetton, Ralph Lauren, Armani Exchange, The Arsenal Store, H&M, Next, Rolex, Per Lui, TK Maxx, Pearsons Department Store, JD Sports, M&S, Jane Norman, plus coffee shops (Caffè Nero, Starbucks and Costa). Also, Enfield Town is the world's first working and commercial ATM at the Barclays Bank on The Town EN2.

Wealthy suburban areas with beautiful Victorian and Edwardian-era houses; a short bus ride from Enfield Town on the 121/329.

Upper-middle-class suburbs bordering London's Metropolitan Green Belt; views of the open countryside are not uncommon in both Chase and Oakwood.

Two outer London middle-class suburbs; location of the Edmonton Green shopping centre, Edmonton Green Bus Station and many shopping villages.

This is a large, thriving metropolitan area in central North London and can be divided into several areas including Finchley Central (known historically as Finchley Church End), East Finchley and West Finchley.

Finchley Central is one of the only areas within London to be fortunate enough to have a city farm. College Farm is an attraction for locals and tourists who can expect to see horses, cows, yaks, pigs and other farmyard animals (a rare sight in London). Finchley Central is also home to the famous 'naked lady' statue at the Henly's Corner. Hotels in the district range from smaller bed and breakfasts to the Holiday Inn Finchley.

Finchley Central contains an odd mix of upper-middle class suburbia infused with some working class aspects too, thus giving it a unique vibe. There is a strong Jewish community in Finchley, however, this does not have many Orthodox Jews who generally choose to make the neighbouring areas of Hendon and Golders Green their home. The Jewish community is represented by several synagogues in the area, the most prominent being the New North London Synagogue on East End Road. It also acts as a local hub for Jewish culture.

There are a number of restaurants in Finchley Central which are reasonably priced and these include specialist restaurants such as Kosher and Halal establishments. Finchley also has bohemian and lively bars, some of which have late licensing laws. Travel in and out of central London is simple via the Northern Line and a variety of bus routes. Although Finchley has a distinctly urban feel, you can venture close by to the neighbouring Mill Hill area to experience some of the great British countryside.

Kilburn is a busy, diverse area situated along a stretch of the Roman Watling Street that makes up the local Edgware Road. Northern Kilburn encompasses the smaller area of Brondesbury. Known as 'Little Dublin', Kilburn spans the boroughs of Brent and Camden.

Being surrounded by generally wealthier areas, Kilburn is a mixture of influences. Historically, it was a focus point for Irish immigration (at some point it was even referred to as "County Kilburn"), and although there are few remaining in Kilburn, their influence is felt in the naming and styling of some of Kilburn's cafes and pubs. The community is very diverse, both ethnically and socially, with a mix of wealthy and poor streets.

Tottenham is mentioned in the Domesday book as the homestead of a man named Tota. The village of Tottenham grew up around the area of High Cross, on the junction with the High Road (the Roman road Ermine Street) and what is now Monument Way.

As a rural village this was a popular destination for the wealthy, and Henry VIII is believed to have visited the Tudor Bruce Castle, then in the hands of the Bruce family (descended from Robert the Bruce). The area stayed semi-rural until the late 19th century when the railway (with its new, reduced, workmen's rates) brought new trade and the need for more housing to the area. The area rapidly became built up, and by the time of World War II was a major target for Luftwaffe bombing campaigns.

Since then, Tottenham has become most notorious for being one of the most deprived areas of North London and the scene of the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985. Since then, the area has done much to recover, and is now reputed to be the most ethnically diverse part of Western Europe. The 2011 England riots were sparked in Tottenham, which saw some of the worst looting.

North London is well served by Tube connections from Central London:

• Metropolitan line (purple) runs through Wembley and Harrow terminating outside the London region in Watford and Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
• Jubilee line (silver) runs through Wembley terminating at Stanmore.
• Bakerloo line (brown) runs through Wembley terminating at Harrow and Wealdstone
• Northern line (black) has two branches one terminating at Edgware and the other at High Barnet with a sub-branch line to Mill Hill East.
• Piccadilly line (dark blue) terminates at Cockfosters.
• Victoria line (light blue) runs through Tottenham terminating at Walthamstow.

• From London Euston (part of the overground network, orange) through Wembley, along the same route as the Bakerloo line, to Harrow then continuing to Watford.
• From London King's Cross to Barnet and Enfield.
• From London Liverpool Street to Tottenham and Enfield.
• Tottenham Hale station is a stop on the Stansted Express from London Stansted Airport (STN ^IATA) to Liverpool Street.

The North Circular Road (A406) is the main west to east road through North London. It has junctions with:

From the North: M1/A1, A10.

From the East: M11.

From the West: M4, A40.

Tricky as there is no Tube to Crouch End. If you insist on taking the London Underground, these stations are nearby:

• Turnpike Lane (Piccadilly line)
• Finsbury Park (Piccadilly and Victoria lines)
• Highgate (Northern line – High Barnet branch)
• Archway (Northern line – High Barnet branch)

• 🌍 Crouch Hill railway station. Crouch End can be easily accessed by Crouch Hill on the London Overground's Gospel Oak to Barking line (nicknamed 'GOBLIN'), by transferring at Gospel Oak. (updated Jan 2024)

• Bus 91. You can take a number 91 bus from Trafalgar Square (calls at Aldwych, Holborn, Euston and King's Cross) but it takes almost an hour (off-peak) from Trafalgar Square. (updated Oct 2022)
• Bus 41. Alternatively, you can go by tube to Archway and then take bus number 41 to Crouch End. Or take a Victoria Line/Piccadilly Line train to Finsbury Park, and then the W7 bus. Finsbury Park tube station has an exit closed for refurbishing until around 2020. (updated Dec 2023)
• W5 bus. There is also a W5 local bus, which runs from Sainsbury's at Harringay Green Lanes and serves the YMCA just down from Crouch End Broadway. (updated Dec 2023)

🌍 Willesden Junction station, Station Approach, NW10 4UY. A major interchange on the London Overground with connections to the Lioness and Mildmay lines. There is also a connection to the Bakerloo line. The station is in TfL fare zones 2+3. There is also a small Puccino's café. (updated Apr 2022)

London Overground services to:

• Lioness line (Watford DC) trains (4 tph) to Watford Junction.
• Lioness line (Watford DC) trains (4 tph) to London Euston.
• Mildmay line (North London Line) trains (4 tph) to Richmond.
• Mildmay (North London Line) trains (6 tph) to Stratford (4 from Richmond, 2 from Clapham Junction).
• Mildmay (West London Line) trains (4 tph) to Clapham Junction via Shepherds Bush.

Tottenham is served by two tube stations on the Victoria line (both in Zone 3) – from north to south:

• Tottenham Hale
• Seven Sisters

These stations are on the National Express line between Enfield Town and London Liverpool Street:

• 🌍 Seven Sisters. (updated Jan 2024)
• 🌍 Bruce Grove. (updated Jan 2024)
• 🌍 White Hart Lane. (updated Jan 2024)

• 🌍 South Tottenham station. On the London Overground's Gospel Oak to Barking route (nicknamed 'GOBLIN') between Gospel Oak and Barking. (updated Jan 2024)

There are many more bus services that come through Tottenham.

• Bus 123 (Wood Green to Ilford). (updated Jul 2022)
• Bus 149 (London Bridge to Edmonton). (updated Jul 2022)
• Bus 243 (Wood Green to London Waterloo). (updated Jul 2022)

Two London Underground stations are within a short walk of the venues:

• Wembley Park is on the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines.
• Wembley Central on the Bakerloo and London Overground lines.

Access to the venues are via Olympic Way and the White Horse Bridge respectively. London Underground services typically run every 5 minutes in each direction until midnight, seven days a week.

Two mainline stations are within a short walk of the venues:

• 🌍 Wembley Central station, High Rd, Wembley, HA9 7FA. Is on the London Overground Watford DC line, providing services to Watford Junction northbound and London Euston southbound via Willesden Junction. Services typically run every 20 minutes in each direction M-Sa, and every half hour on Sundays. Southern trains also run M-F peak hour services on the West London Line, also to Watford Junction northbound but to Clapham Junction and Gatwick Airport railway station southbound. Whether matchday services will run at the weekends on this route remains unclear. 
• 🌍 Wembley Stadium station, Wembley Hill Rd, Wembley, HA9 8BQ. Next to the stadium of the same name. Services are provided by Chiltern Railways on the Chiltern Main Line to London Marylebone (one stop away) southbound. Services are every half-hour seven days a week. Northbound, trains only run up as far as High Wycombe and are every half-hour seven days a week. However, if travellers go first to Marylebone, there are northbound services that go all the way up to Birmingham Snow Hill. These run every half-hour, seven days a week. 

• 🌍 Capel Manor Gardens, Capel Manor Gardens, Bullsmoor Lane, Enfield, Middlesex, EN1 4RQ, ☏ +44 8456 122 122. 30 acres of grounds featuring over 60 different gardens and landscapes (some award-winning). Also has a restaurant and gift shop. £5.50 adults, £4.50 concessions, £2.50 children. 
• 🌍 Forty Hall & Estate. 11AM-4PM. A renovated 17th-century estate featuring a mansion and grounds. Has a gift shop and café. Free but charges apply to tours and special events. 

• 🌍 Harrow School, HA1 3HR (Tours meet at Bill Yard, near the jct of High St and Church Hill. Train and Tube: Harrow-on-the-Hill  MET  ), ☏ +44 20 8426 4638, enterprises@harrowschool.org.uk. Harrow is famous for its school, Winston Churchill attended it as did 7 other British prime ministers. The school is at the top of the hill, the buildings and surrounding area are a step back in time. Public tours take place four times a year in the holidays, while private tours for groups of up to 10 can be arranged any time of the year. Try to go in term time on a Sunday as the pupils in long coats and straw boaters, and the masters in mortar boards are a sight rarely seen anywhere outside of Hollywood films of Olde England!. Public tours: adult £6.50, concession £5.50, child £1.50; private tours (by appointment only) ominously don't list a price. 
• 🌍 Harrow on the Hill. Harrow on the Hill grew around the millennium-old St. Mary's Church, and was the centre of power for an area encompassed by what is the current borough. The hill is a place where you can see a chunk of English history in the urban landscape. 
• 🌍 Bentley Priory Nature Reserve. The place is a beautifully preserved nature reserve but it also contains Bentley Priory, this place was the RAF Fighter Command HQ in the Second World War. When London was burning, this place was never bombed, some people say that German Air Command did not destroy it because they wanted to make it their own HQ, this place was inside the RAF Stanmore Air Base but now its been opened to the public. It also has a deer park and a beautiful pond; named Boot Pond. 
• 🌍 Headstone Manor and Museum, Pinner View, Harrow, HA2 6PX (15 minute walk from Harrow & Wealdstone  BAK  OGD  station). Local history museum for the London Borough of Harrow. Headstone Manor House was built in about 1310 and is the earliest timber framed building in the area. Over the centuries, it has been modified and expanded repeatedly and makes for an interesting study in the history of English houses. Nowadays it displays artifacts from the history of Harrow, ranging from prehistory through the 20th century. Cafe and Visitor Centre. Free. (updated Nov 2021)
• 🌍 Heath Robinson Museum, Pinner Memorial Park, West End Lane, Pinner HA5 1AE (tube: Pinner  MET ), ☏ +44 20 8866 8420, welcome@heathrobinsonmuseum.org. Th-Su + BH Mo 11AM-4PM. Small museum devoted to the life & work of British Artist William Heath Robinson who is renowned for his pictures of impossible contraptions. Café on site. Set in attractive park. Adults £6, 65+ £5, U16 free, other concs £4. (updated Dec 2022)

• 🌍 RAF Museum (Tube: Colindale  NOR , which is a 25 minute ride from Central London). A must for any war buffs. It has extensive galleries detailing the history of the RAF and its aircraft. A sound and light show inside the museum focuses on the Blitz. 
• Saracens (Tube: Oakwood  PIC ). Play rugby union in the Premiership, the game's top tier. In 2020 they were busted to the second tier for financial irregularities but bounced straight back in 2021. Their home ground is Copthall Stadium (capacity 10,500 and sponsored as StoneX Stadium). (updated Oct 2022)

• 🌍 Highgate Wood (tube: Highgate  NOR ), ☏ +44 20 8444-6129, highgate.wood@cityoflondon.gov.uk. A 28-hectare remnant of the great Middlesex Wood which once spread across north London. There is a supervised children's playground, a café and an information centre. 

• 🌍 St Augustine's, Kilburn Park Road, NW6 5XB, ☏ +44 20 7624 1637. Tu 7AM-noon, Sa 10AM-12:45PM. An ornate Anglican church, sometimes incorrectly called the "Cathedral of North London". The church was built in the 1870s, and has altar screens designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1930. (updated Nov 2015)

• 🌍 BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandi (Neasden Temple), 105-119 Brentfield Road, Neasden, London NW10 8LD, ☏ +44 20 8965 2651, info@londonmandir.baps.org. M-Su 9AM-6PM. It's Europe’s first mandir, a traditional Hindu stone temple. It used to be also the biggest one outside India. Free. (updated Mar 2017)

• 🌍 Bruce Castle & Museum, Lordship Ln (Buses 123, 243 and 318 stop directly outside the museum. Overground trains stop at White Hart Ln and Bruce Grove), ☏ +44 20 8808-8772. W-Su 1PM-5PM. Bruce Castle is a manor house, one of the oldest brick houses in England, that is now a public park and museum. The museum mostly concerns the local history of Haringey, and there are regular talks and workshops. Bruce Castle Park has a tree trail and children's playground. Free. (updated May 2016)
• 🌍 Tottenham Marsh. Part of the Lea Valley Park, a natural habitat for many resident plants and animals. 

• 🌍 Alexandra Palace (Ally Pally) (tube: Wood Green  PIC ). Wood Green's landmark, on a hill overlooking the City of London and the West End. The grand Victorian building was the first place from which the BBC broadcast regular television, but has been gutted by fire on two separate occasions. It now serves as an exhibition and event venue, and is popular for the surrounding Alexandra Park, its boating lake and ice-rink, and its panoramic views over London. 

• 🌍 Wembley Stadium, Stadium Way (tube: Wembley Central  OGD ), ☏ +44 20 8795-9000. The large arch, the answer to the old stadium's twin towers, is an impressive structure and is often lit up to celebrate special occasions (such as London winning the 2012 Olympic Games bid). 

• 🌍 Kiln Theatre (Tricyle Theatre), 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 6JR, ☏ +44 20 7328 1000. Renowned theatre and cinema, noted for its 'reality' plays such as The Riots (2011) and Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry (2005). 

• 🌍 Alexandra Palace ice rink, Alexandra Palace Way, N22 7AY, ☏ +44 20 8365 4386. 
• 🌍 Chocolate Factory, Clarendon Road, N22 6XJ, ☏ +44 20 8365-7500. Converted sweets factory now used by local artists; there are regular shows and events here. The annual Open Studios is on the second weekend in November. 
• Cinemas, Wood Green High Road. There are two cinemas on this road, a Vue and a Cineworld. 
  • Vue. (updated Jun 2021)
  • Cineworld. (updated Jun 2021)

• Football: 🌍 Tottenham Hotspur (New White Hart Lane), Park Lane, Tottenham N17 0BX (just east of White Hart Lane  OGD ), ☏ +44 244 844 0102. Spurs play soccer in the Premier League, England's top tier. Their new ground on the site of the former White Hart Lane stadium opened in 2019, capacity of 62,000: see club website for stadium tours. Matches with local rivals Arsenal tend to attract the most attention from fans. This has two pitches - a retractable grass pitch for Spurs games, and an artificial pitch for American football games - the National Football League occasionally plays here. Spurs women's team play in the Women's Super League, their top tier, with home games at The Hive, shared with Barnet FC. (updated May 2022)
• Cycle and boat hire on the Lea, Stonebridge Lock, Tottenham Marshes (walk along the Lea from Tottenham Hale  VIC , or take bus 192 from the station), ☏ +44 7747 873831. W-Su and bank holidays 10AM-7PM. Hire a canoe, kayak or bicycle by the hour. 
• 🌍 Drumsheds. Nightclub in a former IKEA store. (updated Feb 2024)

• 🌍 Finsbury Park (tube: Finsbury Park  PIC  VIC ). One of North London's green lungs - boating on the lake, start a walk of Parkland Walk to Highgate along the route one of London's former railway lines. 

• Football matches. Wembley Stadium is the home stadium of the England national team; qualification games for the World Cup and the European Championships are held here regularly. For club competitions, the finals of the FA Cup and the League Cup are also held in Wembley every year. 

• NFL International Series (American football): the best players battle it out four times a year in jolly old England, with two here and two at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

• 🌍 St. George's Shopping Centre, St Anns Road, Harrow, HA1 1HS (Train and Tube: Harrow-on-the-Hill  MET  ), ☏ +44 20 8424-2828, info@stgeorgesshopping.co.uk. Daily 7:30AM–11PM. A few restaurants on the same floor as the cinema. (updated Apr 2021)
• 🌍 St. Ann's Shopping Centre, St. Anns Road, Harrow HA1, 1AT (Train and Tube: Harrow-on-the-Hill  MET  ), ☏ +44 20 8861-2282, info@stannsshopping.co.uk. Upstairs food court with a KFC, Burger King, Pizza Hut, etc. 

• 🌍 High Road. Mile-long shopping street containing many high street chains and independent shops. 
• 🌍 The Mall Wood Green, 159 High Road, Wood Green, N22 6YQ (tube: Wood Green  PIC ). 9AM-7PM. It features many high street chains and independent shops, as well as a covered market with a large food section including butchers, fishmongers, fruit and vegetables and international food. 

There are several specialised shops in the area, as well as large shopping centres. Of course, there are hundreds of other shops and shopping centres nearby in London.

• 🌍 Seven Sisters Market (Pueblito Paisa), 231-243 High Rd, N15 5BT (Tube & train: Seven Sisters  VIC  OGD ; market is adjacent to Exit 1 of the Tube station), ☏ +44 20 8802 1970. M-Th 9AM-7PM, F Sa 9AM-8PM. As the slogan goes, "lo pequeño es hermoso" - small is beautiful - and the UK's only "Latin village" really is tiny, but an extraordinary diversity of hispanic businesses (cafés, street food stands, butchers, greengrocers) and services (community post office, legal advice) manage to squeeze in, while still leaving room for customers. Threatened with closure due to gentrification as of 2020, so visit prontísimo. (updated Dec 2019)
• 🌍 West Green Road shops, West Green Rd (Seven Sisters station, turn left or take bus 41). Specialist Caribbean and African food, open till late. 

Large number of charity/thrift shops in the area. The haul is pretty good if you are looking for ladies' vintage and the Norwood shops often have shipments of castoffs from high street mainstays (Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, and Charles Tyrwhitt), but for actual designer stuff, go to St. John's Wood instead.

There are plenty of good quality restaurants in Crouch End to choose from.

• 🌍 The Kings Head, 2 Crouch End Hill, N8 8AA, ☏ +44 20 8340 1028. Redeveloped pub. Trendy crowd, with comedy on a Monday night. 
• 🌍 O's Thai Café, 10 Topsfield Parade, Tottenham Lane, N8 8PR, ☏ +44 20 8348 6898. Su Tu W 3–10PM, Th–Sa 2–10PM, closed M. Good quality reasonably priced Thai food. Buzzy atmosphere. (updated Apr 2021)

• 🌍 Falafel Feast, 377 Regents Park Rd, N3 1DE (Opposite Finchley Central  NOR  station). M–F 7AM–5:30PM. High quality and affordable authentic middle-eastern specialties - including sabich, shakshuka and falafel - served by friendly staff. Inexpensive. (updated Dec 2017)

• 🌍 Cafe Japan, 626 Finchley Rd, NW11 7RR, ☏ +44 20 4529 4202. W Th 5–9PM, F noon–2PM & 5–9PM, Sa Su noon–2:30PM & 5–9PM. Very good food. Zagat rated. Book in advance as they get very busy. (updated Apr 2021)
• 🌍 L'artista, 915-917 Finchley Rd, NW11 7PE, ☏ +44 20 8731-7501. Daily noon–midnight. Superb Italian food - generous portions, large varied menu; perhaps one of the best Italian restaurants in London whether a quick pizza or party. Somewhat noisy esp. in evenings from adjacent railway and staff celebrating diners' birthdays with clashing cymbals and parades, quieter in back and in the covered outdoor area. reasonable. (updated Apr 2021)

• 🌍 The restaurants and food shops of the Harringay stretch of Green Lanes. One of London's great collections of restaurants, with a predominance of Turkish food. 

With a diverse population, Harrow has a range of cuisines, and in particular has lots of Indian restaurants.

• St. George's and St. Ann's Shopping Centres have several eateries. See under Buy.

• 🌍 Little Bay Kilburn, 228 Belsize Road (Just off the Kilburn High Road, round the corner from Kilburn High Road station), ☏ +44 20 7372-4699, info@littlebay.co.uk. A great modern European restaurant in the West Hampstead/Kilburn area serving high quality food at great value for money prices. They have a party offer for groups of 12 or more. £9.95. 

• 🌍 Ferry Boat Inn, Ferry Ln, Tottenham Hale, N17 9NG (Tube & train: Tottenham Hale  VIC , bus: 123, 230 from Walthamstow and Wood Green), ☏ +44 20 8808-4980, ferryboatinn.tottenham@stonegatepubs.com. Su–Th 10AM–11PM, F Sa 1-AM–1AM. Large yet cosy venue for scrummy pub grub, with roaring fires and a décor which harks back to when Tottenham was just a Middlesex village. Good place to end a walk through the Lea Valley Regional Park. Mains £10-£12, Sunday lunch £11-£15. (updated Apr 2021)

Wembley is noted for its large ethnic minority communities, particularly people of Indian origin. There are many Indian takeaways, and many other takeaways, restaurants and pizza parlours.

• 🌍 Karamel London N22, 4 Coburg Road, N22 6UJ, ☏ +44 20 3146-8775. Global fusion homemade cuisine and music venue. 
• 🌍 Vrisaki, 73 Myddleton Road, Bowes Park, N22 8LZ (Bowes Park rail/Bounds Green  PIC  tube), ☏ +44 20 8889-8760. Tu–Sa noon–11PM, Su noon–9PM, closed M. Authentic Greek (Cypriot) food. Highly recommended by Haringey and Enfield residents. (updated Apr 2021)

• 🌍 Black Horse, 80 Wood St, EN5 4BW, ☏ +44 20 8449 2230. (updated Dec 2021)
• 🌍 The Gate, Barnet Rd, Barnet EN5 3LA, ☏ +44 20 8449 7292. (updated Dec 2021)
• 🌍 Orange Tree, 7 Totteridge Village, N20 8NX (tube: Totteridge & Whetstone  NOR ), ☏ +44 20 8343 7031. (updated Dec 2021)
• 🌍 Prince Of Wales, 2 Church Hill Rd, EN4 8TB, ☏ +44 20 8440 5392. (updated Dec 2021)
• 🌍 The Railway Bell, 13 E Barnet Rd, EN4 8RR (Near New Barnet Station), ☏ +44 20 8449 1369. Wetherspoon (updated Dec 2021)
• 🌍 Red Lion, 31 High St, EN5 5UW (tube: High Barnet  NOR ). (updated Dec 2021)
• 🌍 Ye Old Mitre Inne, 58 High St, Chipping Barnet, EN5 5SJ (tube: High Barnet  NOR ). noon-midnight. 
• 🌍 Ye Olde Monken Holt, 193 High St,EN5 5SU (Just South of Hadley Common), ☏ +44 20 3674 3145. (updated Dec 2021)

• 🌍 The Railway Tavern, 23 Crouch End Hill, N8 8DH, ☏ +44 20 8348-3396, nick@the-railwaytavern.co.uk. Su–W noon–11PM, Th noon–midnight, F Sa noon–1AM. Renovated. (updated Apr 2021)

• 🌍 The Salisbury Hotel, 1 Grand Parade, Green Lanes, Harringay Ladder, N4 1JX, ☏ +44 20 8800-9617, salisburyhotel@yahoo.co.uk. M–Th 5–11PM, Sa noon–midnight, Su noon–10PM, closed F. Huge ornate early Edwardian pub (despite the misleading name). Worth a visit just to look but plenty going on including music and period jazz dancing. (updated Apr 2021)

• 🌍 The Sir Colin Campbell, 264-266 Kilburn High Rd, Kilburn, NW6 2BY, ☏ +44 20 7693-5443, info@thesircolincampbell.co.uk. M 4–11PM, Tu–Th 4PM–midnight, F 1PM–1AM, Sa noon–1AM, Su noon–12:30AM. Small, friendly Irish pub with good traditional music sessions on Friday nights. (updated Apr 2021)
• 🌍 The Black Lion Guesthouse Bar Restaurant, 274 Kilburn High Rd, Kilburn, NW6 2BY, ☏ +44 20 7624-1424, info@blacklionguesthouse.com. M–Th 3PM–midnight, F Sa noon–1AM, Su noon–midnight. Nice gastropub/restaurant. (updated Apr 2021)
• 🌍 The North London Tavern, 375 Kilburn High Rd, Kilburn, NW6 7QB, ☏ +44 20 7625-6634, info@northlondontavern.co.uk. Daily noon–11PM. Popular bar/restaurant. Not quite as good as the Black Lion. (updated Apr 2021)

There are numerous bars in the area. Alcohol is not permitted in the arena or stadium.

Golders Green has a fair number of small hotels and Bed and Breakfasts within walking distance of the Underground Station.

• 🌍 Martel Guest House, 27 The Ridgeway, NW11 8QP, ☏ +44 20 8455 1802, info@martelguesthouse.co.uk. Comfortable rooms, reasonably priced. 
• 🌍 The Crown London Hotel, 152 Cricklewood Broadway, Cricklewood, NW2 3ED, ☏ +44 20 8452 4175. Check-in: 14 pm, check-out: 11 am. 4-star hotel. from £79. (updated Mar 2023)

• 🌍 London Backpackers Hostel, 8-10 Queens Parade, Queens Road, NW4 3NS (Tube: next to Hendon Central  NOR ), ☏ +44 20 8203 1319, info@londonbackpackers.com. Check-in: 2PM, check-out: 10AM. Decorated in bright colours. Female-only and mixed dorms with shared bathroom facilities; private rooms are also available. Free Wi-Fi and lockers. Continental breakfast included. There's also a kitchen, TV lounge, games room, business centre and laundrette. Beds from £10. (updated Nov 2022)

There are several inns and hotels in the area, ranging for the cheap-and-cheerful to 5-star.

The area has a justified reputation for being blighted with crime. Gangs of male youths are responsible for the majority of crime and disorder, in particular robbery and burglary. Hartington Park is to be avoided from the evening onwards. Keep to the well-lit streets and the High Rd, and avoid flashing jewellery or mobile phones.

Tottenham Police Station is located at 398 High Road N17: 5 min walk north from Seven Sisters underground station.

It is recommended for people to stay in groups when in Tottenham, and avoid anyone who looks dodgy.