A origin of the Thrower component of the town's title is uncertain however is usually thought to keep around been from either grounds to believe of the Roman pottery that was thought to have been sited locally, or even from either a personal Pottere world health organization sleep in the South Mimms parish. A Bar component is thought to refer to a gates leading from either a South Mimms parish & into the Enfield Chase parish, or even from either a bit of rather toll on the Great North Road. A original "Bar" is said to develop been at what is okay, a Green Human tapHome, or even at a todays entrance to Movern House.

A Smashing Northward Road, a original main road route from either London to the north of Engl& and ending at Edinburgh in Scotland, passed through Potters Bar High Street - originally numbered when a A1, later a A1000. A A1 was built as a major (what was so known as "arterial") road, & the crossing at Bignells Corner linked the Barnet - St Albans Road with a A1. Potters Bar is today likewise served by junction Xxiv of the M25.

Potters Bar was created an urban district of Middlesex in 1934. Within 1965 the district was transferred to Hertfordshire while most of the rest of Middlesex became a portion of Greater London. Inside 1974 a urban district was abolished & the vicinity became section of the borough of Hertsmere.

Potters Bar station is the greatest on the railway line between London's Kings Cross railway station and York, and a town's title entered national newspaper headline when the places of a rail crash that killed Heptad humans & hurt 76 in May 10, 2002.

Education
'''[http://www.damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk/ Dame Alice Owen's School] occurs as mixed Grant-maintained school in Potters Bar. Originally depending around Islington. A trustees of a Dame Alice Owen Foundation come the Worshipful Company of Brewers.

[http://www.mountgrace.org.uk/ Mount Grace School]''' occurs as mixed Grant Maintained School within Potters Bar. a school utilized to become the Manor which was turned into a school lang syne, legend has it there are hidden tunnels under the school which last 100% as much as Potters Bar and up to a Railway station.