Lodge Lane has existed since the late eighteenth century.
Finchley Lodge (from which Lodge Lane takes its name) may have existed by 1564 and was certainly there by 1667. Much of the estate was sold off by a man called Chapman in the 1820s for building after the enclosure of Finchley Common.
Minor roads grew up along the edge of Finchley Common with Swan Lane, Woodside Lane and Lodge Lane all existing by 1780. A footpath led from Woodside Lane to Totteridge and a church path joined Whetstone to the northern part of Nether Street.
Finchley had a number of named roads in the Middle Ages which have not been identified in modern times. Unidentified roads included Smiths Lane or Way (mentioned in 1422), Tromer Street (1424 and 1484), Merelfield Street (1429), Woodsend Lane (1436), Procession Lane (1452), Croftlethe Street (1457), Cowperes Lane (1463) and Bush Lane (1484).
Finchley Lodge was later reached by Lodge Lane.
Charles Jacques built twenty one cottages in Lodge Lane around 1824 and constructed Torrington Cottage as a residence. By the 1830s there were other houses and in 1837 a dissenting chapel, "Cottagers Chapel", which had been converted from the stables of Orchard Cottage.
The Torrington Arms was at the corner of the Great North Road and Lodge Lane by the late 1830s.
By 1839 North Finchley had at least five retail outlets including a blacksmith called Elizabeth Humphreys. These were on Lodge Lane rather than on the High Road.
Some early-19th-century farm cottages still survive - otherwise the building along the lane is largely twentieth century.
Lodge Lane was the home of John Parr, the first British soldier to be killed in the First World War, and the actor David Jason.
