Stirling Corner
Stirling Corner is the road junction of the A1 Barnet Bypass and Barnet Lane.

A Mr Stirling opened a garage at the junction - hence both Stirling Corner and Stirling Way.

This dual carriageway was part of a 1920–4 road improvement programme that was mentioned in parliament in 1928 as "hopefully being completed by the end of the summer".

The A1 northbound carriageway passes the entrance to Scratchwood, an area of ancient forest which is now a Local Nature Reserve, then crosses the A411 from Watford to Barnet at the Stirling Corner roundabout.

A proposed link road at this roundabout, estimated at £22.8m in 1987, would have provided access to the M1, but the plans were subsequently abandoned. The link had been planned during discussions for the Hendon Urban Motorway, which was intended to carry the M1 all the way down to Hyde Park Corner as part of the London Ringways scheme; the interchange would have been junction 3 on the motorway.

Past Stirling Corner, the A1 skirts Borehamwood, before turning northeast and running through open countryside to Bignell’s Corner.

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