Everything about South Mimms totally explained
South Mimms is a village forming part of the
Hertsmere district of
Hertfordshire in the
East of England.
It is a small settlement located near to the junction of the
M25 motorway with the
A1(M) motorway and is perhaps more widely known because of the naming of the
service station at that junction, and for
mountain biking routes in the area which start from the service station.
Potters Bar was originally a small settlement in the parish of South Mimms. Potters Bar became the location of the nearest railway station and eventually became much larger. Both Potters Bar and South Mimms were part of
Middlesex until the creation of
Greater London which abolished the county of Middlesex in 1965. South Mimms was the northernmost village in Middlesex.
South Mimms parish was split in 1894 under the
Local Government Act 1894 with the extreme southern tip forming
South Mimms Urban parish in the
Barnet Urban District in Hertfordshire. This area now forms part of the
London Borough of Barnet. The rest of the parish became the
South Mimms Rural District, later renamed the Potters Bar Urban District.
South Mimms served as a home for
Queen Wilhelmina during her exile in
World War II. A German air attack on South Mimms at this time narrowly missed her, killing several of her guards.
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