Three council boundaries meet around Betstyle Road. Your website has to say which side of them you're actually on.

New Southgate

The station, St Paul's Church and Betstyle Road, across three boroughs.

New Southgate is first referred to in the historical record in the 1850s. Its railway station, built in 1851, has changed name several times since and today carries Great Northern and Thameslink services north towards Potters Bar and Welwyn Garden City and south towards King's Cross and Moorgate. St Paul's Church, New Southgate, was consecrated in 1873, and Betstyle Road and Betstyle Circus preserve the name of the historic hamlet the area grew from. The area itself is described in its own source as low-rise and low-density, with housing estates and rear gardens rather than a dense shopping street.

What sets New Southgate apart, even among the thin, boundary-heavy places in this part of Barnet, is that its own dedicated source places it across three London boroughs at once: a small part of eastern Barnet, a south-western corner of Enfield, and, in its loosest definitions, a small northern corner of Haringey. That is not a rounding error; it is a genuinely three-way split over a small area, one that a council tax bill, a school catchment or a business rates notice can each resolve differently depending on exactly which side of the boundary a given address sits on.

For a business here, that split is a practical problem before it is a marketing one. A customer trying to confirm they've found the right business in the right council area gets real, useful information from a website that states its borough and postcode precisely, in a way that does more work here than in almost any other Barnet locality in this batch.