Pest Control in Potters Bar

How do I get rid of pests in Potters Bar?

PEST UK are a fully insured, independent pest control company and offer a prompt response within 24-hours. Our professionally trained and qualified technicians follow the BPCA Codes of Best Practice. We provide safe, legal and effective pest control services for homes and business premises.

The office in Potters Bar is run by Lyle Petts, one of our pest control technicians. The most common pest problems we deal with are ants, bees, bed bugs, fleas, rats, mice, squirrels, cockroaches, wasps & wasp nests, hornets, bird & pigeon proofing.

We have vast experience in controlling pests in a variety of commercial situations

• pubs, restaurants and hotels
• school, college and university buildings
• farms and stables
• offices
• factories
• housing estates and apartment buildings
• shops

We offer tailor-made pest control contracts for domestic and commercial premises. A contract provides the simplest way to proof against and deter pests. As a result you can avoid costly damage to your property and the spread of disease.

About Potters Bar

Potters Bar is in Hertfordshire, 13 miles north of central London. It is located on the Great North Road, one of two road routes from the City of London to the north of England. It is part of the London commuter belt. It was historically part of Middlesex and formed the Potters Bar Urban District of that county from 1934. From 1894 to 1934 its area had formed the South Mimms Rural District. In 1965 the district was transferred to Hertfordshire County Council.

The town dates to the early 13th century but remained a small, mainly agricultural, settlement until the arrival of the Great Northern Railway in 1850. 

The origin of the Potters element of the town’s name is uncertain but is generally thought to be either a reference to a Roman pottery, believed to have been sited locally, or alternatively to the Pottere family who lived in neighbouring South Mimms parish. The Bar is thought to refer to the gates leading from the South Mimms parish and into the Enfield Chase parish, or possibly from a toll on the Great North Road.

Byng family

Wrotham Park is a neo-Palladian English country house situated within Potters Bar and Barnet on 2,500 acres of land. Originally part of an estate known as Pinchbank, it was first recorded in Middlesex in 1310 and owned in the 17th and early 18th centuries by the Howkins family, the property passed to Thomas Reynolds, a director of the South Sea Company, who renamed the estate Strangeways. His son, Francis, sold the property to Admiral John Byng who had the house rebuilt by Isaac Ware in 1754.

Admiral John Byng changed the name of the house to Wrotham Park in honour of the original family home in Wrotham, Kent. Byng never had an opportunity to live in retirement at Wrotham. Following his inadequately equipped expedition to relieve Menorca from the French during the Seven Years’ War; he was court martialled and executed in 1757 for failing to obey orders. This event was satirised by Voltaire in his novel Candide. The Admiral Byng pub in Darkes Lane is named after him.

A disastrous fire in 1883 gutted the house The house was rebuilt exactly as it was and still remains in the hands of the Byng family. They still own a lot of land in the Potters Bar area.

For more information about Potters Bar see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potters_Bar

If you would like advice on how to get rid of pests in Potters Bar call PEST UK on 01707 229 892 or email us at services@pestuk.com

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