FINCHLEY, an urban district in the Finchley parliamentary division of Middlesex, England, 7 m. N.W. of St. Paul's cathedral, London, with stations, Finchley and East Finchley on the L.N.E. railway. Pop. (1931) 58,961. The parish church of St. Mary (restored 1873) has some interesting ancient brasses. Finchley extends north from Hampstead and Highgate between Hornsey on the east and Hendon on the west, and consists of East Finchley or "East End," Finchley proper or Church End, and North Finch ley or Woodside Park. Its pleasant, healthy situation has caused Finchley to become a populous residential district. Finchley Common was formerly one of the most notorious resorts of high waymen near London; the Great North Road crossed it, and it was a haunt of Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard; the latter was captured here in 1724. The Common has not been preserved from the builder. In 166o George Monk, marching on London, made his camp on the Common, and in 1745 a regular and volunteer force encamped here, prepared to resist Prince Charles Edward, who was at Derby. The gathering of this force inspired Hogarth's famous picture, the "March of the Guards to Finchley." Christ's college school, with two other secondary schools, is controlled by the county and district councils. There is a memorial hospital and a branch of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. Finchley council has its own electricity undertaking and controls a considerable acreage of open space and playing fields, besides having an extensive town-planning scheme.