Hadley Wood

Hadley Wood is a suburb of North London. It is located in the London Borough of Enfield although it is situated much closer to Barnet. It is a secluded & exclusive area, for example, there is an omnipresent private security patrol. The properties here range from £700,000 to in excess of £10 million. (Source: Statons Estate Agents[1]).

Hadley Wood is served by Hadley Wood railway station with trains to Welwyn Garden City to the north and King's Cross and Moorgate to the south. There are other less frequent services to Stevenage and Letchworth.

There is also an infrequent bus service to Barnet.

Trent Country Park - A 400-acre oasis of meadows, woodlands and lakes, Trent Country Park was once a hunting ground for Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and James I. With dedicated walking, cycling and horseriding routes, there's no shortage of ways to explore the park. Look out for Camlet Moat, one of the borough's five scheduled ancient monuments, while kids will love the Wildlife Rescue Centre, which is home to deer, foxes, rabbits and birds.

There is Hadley Wood Golf Course and Club nearby, which is also located on Beech Hill and a Tennis Club on Crescent East. Also nearby is Monken Hadley Common and Enfield Chase. Occasionally West Lodge Park Hotel and grounds have open days to the general public. This is usually organised through the National Gardens Scheme. A children's playground can be located between the grounds of the tennis courts and Hadley Wood Primary School on Crescent East.

Every year on the 5th November bonfire night, a fireworks display is held in Crescent East, in a field between Hadley Wood Primary School and the tennis courts. This is usually sponsored by Statons.

In Hadley Wood Village there is a small parade of shops in of a Gym, restaurant, Statons estate agent, newsagent, Alan Lawrence hairdresser, dry cleaners and beauty salon. This is also where the Hadley Wood railway station is ~ for connections to Moorgate and Kings Cross.

The August 4, 1827 edition of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, provides the following short history of the area:

Hadley, Mankin, or Monkton, Hadley, was formerly a hamlet to Edmonton. It lies north-west of Enfield, and comprises 580 acres, including 240 allotted in lieu of the common enclosure of Enfield Chase. Its name is compounded of two Saxon words — Head-leagh, or a high place; Mankin is probably derived from the connexion of the place with the abbey of Walden, to which it was given by Geoffrey de Mandeville, earl of Essex, under the name of the Hermitage of Hadley. The village is situated on the east side of the great north road, eleven miles from London.

The manor belonged to the Mandevilles, the founder of the Hermitage, and was given by Geoffrey to the monks of Walden; in the ensuing two centuries the manorial property underwent various transmissions, and was purchased by the Pinney family, in the year 1791, by the present proprietor, Peter Moore, Esq.

The house of David Garrow, father to the present judge of that name in the court of exchequer, is supposed to have been connected with a monastic establishment. Chimney-pieces remain in alto-relievo: on one is sculptured the story of Sampson; the other represents many passages in the life of our Saviour, from his birth in the stall to his death on the cross.

The parish church is a handsome structure, built at different periods. The chancel bears marks of great antiquity, but the body has been built with bricks. At the west end is a square tower, composed of flint, with quoins of freestone; on one side is the date Anno Domini 1393, cut in stone—one side of the stone bearing date in the sculptured device of a wing; the other that of a rose. The figures denote the year 1494; the last, like the second numerical, being the half eight, often used in ancient inscriptions. The unique vestige of the Middle Ages, namely, a firepan, or pitchpot, on the south-west tower of the church, was blown down in January, 1779 and carefully repaired, though now not required for the purpose of giving an alarm at the approach of a foe, by lighting pitch within it. The church has been supposed to have been erected by Edward IV as a chapel for religious service, to the memory of those who fell in the battle of Barnet in 1471.

On the window of the north transept are some remains of painted glass, among which may be noticed the rebus of the Gooders, a family of considerable consequence at Hadley in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This consists of a partridge with an ear of wheat in its bill; on an annexed scroll is the word Gooder; on the capital of one of the pillars are two partridges with ears of corn in the mouth, an evident repetition of the same punning device, and it is probable the Gooder's were considerable benefactors towards building the church.

The almshouses for six decayed housekeepers were founded by Sir Roger Willbraham in 1616, but so slenderly endowed that they do not produce more than 9l.6s. annually. Major Delafonte, in 1762, increased the annuity, which expired in 1805; but Mr. Cottrell gained by subscription 2375l. in trust. The father of Mr. Whitbread, the statesman, subscribed the sum of 1000l. for the support of the almshouses. The charity-school for girls was established in 1773, and was enlarged and converted into a school of industry in 1800. Twenty girls in the establishment receive annually the sum of 1l. towards clothing; thirty girls besides the above are admitted to the benefit of education, on paying the weekly sum of 2d. and succeed to the vacancies which occur in the class more largely assisted. This charity is in like manner supported by contributions on the inhabitants. The boys' school, supported in the same way, which in 1804 amounted to the sum of 103l. 10s., has about seventy day-scholars; twenty are allowed 1l. towards clothing, and instructed without any charge; the remainder pay 2d. weekly.

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• Elaine Delmar Singer
• David O'Leary 1990's football player
• Jeremy Beadle (TV presenter and writer)
• Lennox Lewis (Professional Boxer)
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• Paul Robinson (Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper)
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• Sir Ian Hunter, classical music impresario, was born in Hadley Wood in 1919.
• Lemar Singer
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• Hadley Wood School

Website: http://www.hadleywood.enfield.sch.uk

• Monken Hadley Church of England Primary School

• Stormont Girls School

• Lochinver Boys School

• St Johns'

• Saint Marthas Convent School

• St Albans Schools (St Albans)

• Haberdashers' Aske's Schools (Elstree)

• Queenswood Girls School (Brookmans Park)

• Haileybury (Hertford)

• Mill Hill School (Mill Hill)

• Immanuel College (Bushey)

• The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827, from Project Gutenberg