Arkley Golf Club

Arkley lies on the northern fringe of the London Borough of Barnet, close to where the city's suburbs meet the Hertfordshire countryside beyond the M25. The club operates a nine-hole course, one of a smaller number of shorter-format clubs serving golfers in this part of north London who want a round without a long drive out of the city. This corner of Barnet sits on notably high ground for the capital, part of London's protected Green Belt, an area of working farmland, hedged fields and pockets of older woodland that have kept development at bay even as the suburbs have spread north from Finchley and Mill Hill. Golfers based in this part of London have Arkley as one of the more local options, set back from the busier arterial roads that cross this stretch of the city's edge. The setting reflects the mixed rural-urban character typical of Barnet's northern boundary, neither fully countryside nor fully city, with Hertfordshire beginning just beyond it.