page_title: Finchley
section_title: Cultural references
hierarchical_section_title: Finchley / Cultural references
context_page_description: Finchley is a large district of north London, England, in the London Borough of Barnet. Finchley is on high ground, 11 km north of Charing Cross.
  It formed an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, becoming a municipal borough in 1933, and has been part of Greater London since 1965. Nearby districts include: Golders Green, Muswell Hill, Friern Barnet, Whetstone, Mill Hill and Hendon.
  It is predominantly a residential suburb, with three town centres: North Finchley, East Finchley and Finchley Church End. Made up of four wards, the population of Finchley counted 65,812 as of 2011.
context_section_description: William Hogarth painted his satirical March of the Guards to Finchley in 1750. It is a depiction of a fictional mustering of troops on London's Tottenham Court Road to march north to Finchley to defend the capital from the second Jacobite rebellion of 1745.
  A number of fictional characters have been associated with the area, including:
  In Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop Mr Garland, one of the principal characters, lives in "Abel Cottage, Finchley".
  In More Peers, a book of comic verse by Hilaire Belloc, one of the poems is about Lord Finchley.
  Bluebottle, a character in the 1950s BBC radio series The Goon Show, hails from East Finchley. Peter Sellers, who played Bluebottle, lived in the area at one time.
  In various episodes of the Channel 4 comedy Peep Show Finchley is used as an on-site shooting location.
  In the Disney film series The Chronicles of Narnia, the Pevensies are from Finchley, although in the original book series it is not specified which part of London they are from.
  The Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch "The Funniest Joke in the World" is set in Finchley.
  In John Steinbeck's Once There Was A War a wee old English woman, discovered on the Isle of Capri is described, "She was dressed in decent and aging black. She never had made the slightest concession to Italy. Her costume would have done her honor and protected her from scandal in Finchley."
caption: March of the Guards to Finchley
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