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Highgate


(N6) Name supposed to be derived from the tollgate that used to stand at the entrance to the Bishop of London's park, a two storied house of red brick, built over an archway that was pulled down in 1769. (Skirts of the Great City, Mrs. A. G. Bell, p. 25)

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