Highfield Avenue runs roughly along the line of an old footpath which connected the then Hendon Fever Hospital before the Hendon Way was built. The ’Highfield’ part of the name came from a large old house which stood at the corner of the road at the Golders Green Road end.
The road dates from before the First World War but houses were only built in the 1920s after the arrival of Brent Cross station.
