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- Part of the Great North Road it is named after the local area. Hadley was first recorded in 1248 as Hadlegh when the manor was granted to the Benedictine monks of Walden Abbey, in Essex. By 1349 it was Hadele and Hadley Monachorum in 1485 and later becoming Monken Hadley in 1489. and even Munkyn Hadley in 1553. The name comes from two Old English words hæth and lēah meaning the clearing where heather grows. David Mills in A Dictionary of London Place Names writes: “Is marked on the 1887 map and is referred to in the surname of William atta Grene (ie ‘living) at the green’) 1345.”
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