Ardleigh Green

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox UK place Ardleigh Green Template:IPAc-en is an area in east London, England, within the London Borough of Havering. It is Template:Convert east-northeast of Charing Cross. This part of London is predominantly residential.

History

Toponymy

The place is an enlargement of a hamlet of (within the parish of) Hornchurch, known only as Hardley Green in various orthographies (written forms) until at least the early 17th century.<ref name=www.british-history.ac.uk>Template:Cite web</ref> With various hamlets, Hornchurch, Havering(-atte-Bower) and Romford formed not a Hundred (division of a county for minor purposes) but a liberty, the Liberty of Havering. For many centuries the three old churches of these places remained of chapel and chapelry administrative status only, as the liberty matched the area of the ancient parish of Hornchurch, which provided a substantial living (benefice, of capital and income for the parish priest) in the church.

The first written name Haddeleye and all later forms evidence a clear corruption or natural progression of an older form, meaning "heath clearing" or perhaps more specifically "clearing [in the] heather" from the Old English hæth and lēah. It was last referred to as "Hardley Green" in 1883, so appearing in that year's Ordnance Survey map.<ref name="Mills">Template:Cite book</ref>

Geography

Ardleigh Green has a small set of shops. The area naturally drains to form the headwaters of a stream, The Ravensbourne which briefly flows, before joining the River Rom.

Transport

The nearest railway stations are Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Template:Rws. There are London Bus services to Hornchurch, Gidea Park and Romford.

Education

Template:Main Ardleigh Green has a combined junior and primary school, as well as Havering College of Further and Higher Education.

References

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