Editing Ardleigh Green

{{short description|Area of East London, England}}
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{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}
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| country                  = England
| region                   = London
| official_name            = Ardleigh Green
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| os_grid_reference        = TQ535895
| london_borough           = Havering
| postcode_area            = RM
| postcode_district        = RM11
| post_town                = HORNCHURCH
| dial_code                = [[01708]]
| constituency_westminster = [[Hornchurch and Upminster (UK Parliament constituency)|Hornchurch and Upminster]]
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| charingX_distance_mi     = 15.5
| charingX_direction       = WSW 
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'''Ardleigh Green''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɑr|d|l|i}} is an [[List of areas of London|area]] in east London, England, within the [[London Borough of Havering]]. It is {{convert|15.5|mi|km|0}} east-northeast of [[Charing Cross]]. This part of London is predominantly residential.

==History==
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===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>{{cite web|last=Powell|first=W.R.|title=A History of the County of Essex: Volume 7|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42809|accessdate=2 January 2012}}</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 (linguistics)|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">{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of London Place-Names|first=A.D.|last=Mills|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2010|isbn=9780199566785|page=8}}</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 {{rws|Gidea Park}}, {{rws|Harold Wood}} and {{rws|Emerson Park}}. There are [[London Buses|London Bus]] services to Hornchurch, [[Gidea Park]] and [[Romford]].

==Education==
{{Main|List of schools in Havering}}
Ardleigh Green has a combined junior and primary school, as well as [[Havering College of Further and Higher Education]].

==References==
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{{LB Havering}}
{{Areas of London}}

[[Category:Areas of London]]
[[Category:Districts of the London Borough of Havering]]


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