Place Name
This is not a reference to ancient Norse ownership, as the name might imply. Rather, it is a reference to one 13thCentury Richard atte Den, who in 1291 was recorded as owning a “huge mansion” on the brow of Cat Hill that he called Danegrove. Over the following centuries, the name of the house changed to Little Grove. In 1556, William Copwood surrendered land called Danegrove and other tenements in East Barnet to David Woodroffe. Nearly a century later, Danegrove had become Danemead, and was in the ownership of Sir Robert Berkeley. It was now part of the Churchill House estate, and when, in 1653, Sir Robert was forced to sell the property to George Hadley it came with “closes called Danemead and Hagdell”. This field preserved the name of the original owner, which by the 20thCentury became Daneland. The road was developed shortly after the Second World War.
