Arkley

{| class="wikitable" align="right" style=font-size:85%;margin-left:10px; |+Arkley (parish) population |- !align="center"| 1901 |align="center"| 483 |- !align="center"| 1911 |align="center"| 494 |- !align="center"| 1921 |align="center"| 959 |- !align="center"| 1931 |align="center"| 1,929 |- !align="center"| 1941 |align="center"| war # |- !align="center"| 1951 |align="center"| 7,536 |- |style="font-size:smaller" colspan=2|# no census was held due to war |- |style="font-size:smaller" colspan=2 align=center|source: UK census |}

St Peter’s Church, which was designed by George Beckett, was built in 1840 as a private chapel at a cost of £5,000. It contains a wall tablet of its benefactor, Enosh Durant, who died in 1848. The chancel was added in 1898 and a Lady Chapel in 1921. After Durant's death the advowson was transferred to the rector of Barnet, and an ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1905. Arkley Windmill was in use by 1806. It is marked as "corn" windmill on the Ordnance Survey of the 1860s. From photographs, it appears to have had only two of its original sails by the 1890s, by which time it may have been powered by steam. It ceased to be a functioning mill during World War I, and was restored in 1930, but…