 These included the "Torrington" public house (in what we would now call North Finchley), and also the "White Lion" in East Finchley.The last known active use of Finchley Common as a place name is an isolated property advert in "The Times" in 1897.There are sections of open ground in the London Borough of Haringey and the London Borough of Barnet which are still closely associated with Finchley Common (though no one uses the name), mostly woodland