Finchley Road was one of the major improvement roads of the 1820s.
Finchley Road was one of the first new trunk roads of the nineteenth century, intended to improve access to London by avoiding the hill at Hampstead.
The road was established by an Act of Parliament in 1826 and was under the control of the Marylebone and Finchley turnpike trust. It had tollgates at Childs Hill and Golders Green, and was fully opened to traffic in 1830.
Later it came under the control of the commissioners for the metropolitan turnpike roads.
