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Monken Hadley. Monken Hadley is a place in the London Borough of Barnet. An ancient country village north of Barnet, it is now a suburban development on the very edge of Greater London 11 miles (18 km) north north-west of Charing Cross, while retaining much of its rural character.
MONKEN HADLEY. Monken Hadley lay in north-east Middlesex about 12 miles from London and at the south-western corner of Enfield Chase, north of the market town of Chipping Barnet (Herts.). The name Hadley was first recorded c. 1136, when a hermitage there belonged to the abbey of Walden (Essex).
St Mary the Virgin is the parish church of Monken Hadley. It is located in the Diocese of London.
Little Pipers, Hadley Green Road. Monken Hadley is a village and ancient parish in Middlesex, just north of Barnet on the Hertfordshire border. It is now a suburban development on the very edge of the metropolitan conurbation, but retains much of its rural character.
The grant was confirmed in 1248 and the abbot claimed jurisdiction in Hadley in 1294 but the manor of HADLEY or MONKEN HADLEY, forming a division of Edmonton manor, was not mentioned by name until the early 16th century.
In 1863 Monken Hadley became part of Barnet local board district and in 1875 most of the parish came under the jurisdiction of East Barnet Valley urban sanitary district, later East Barnet Valley U.D. and subsequently East Barnet U.D.; that part of the parish which adjoined Chipping Barnet, however, became part of Barnet urban sanitary district ...
HADLEY, or MONKEN HADLEY, a village and a parish in Barnet district, Middlesex. The village stands on high ground, near Enfield chase, the Great Northern railway, and the boundary with Herts, 1 mile NNE of Barnet; is a pretty rural place; and has a post office under Barnet, London N.
