6-461: Ardleigh Green / ˈ ɑːr d l i / is an area in east London , England, within the London Borough of Havering . It is 15.5 miles (25 km) east-northeast of Charing Cross . This part of London is predominantly residential. 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
12-524: 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 . The nearest railway stations are Gidea Park , Harold Wood and Emerson Park . There are London Bus services to Hornchurch, Gidea Park and Romford . Ardleigh Green has a combined junior and primary school, as well as Havering College of Further and Higher Education . This London location article
18-520: 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. Ardleigh Green has
24-757: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of areas of London London is the capital of and largest city in England and the United Kingdom . It is divided into the City of London and 32 London boroughs , the result of amalgamation of earlier units of administration that can be traced back to ancient parishes . Each borough is made up of many smaller areas that are variously called districts, neighbourhoods, suburbs, towns or villages. John Strype 's map of 1720 describes London as consisting of four parts: The City of London , Westminster , Southwark and
30-448: The early 17th century. 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
36-587: The eastern 'That Part Beyond the Tower'. As London expanded, it absorbed many hundreds of existing towns and villages which continued to assert their local identities. Mark Twain described London in 1896 as "fifty villages massed solidly together over a vast stretch of territory". Steen Eiler Rasmussen observed in 1934 that "London became a greater and still greater accumulation of towns, an immense colony of dwellings where people still live in their own home in small communities with local government just as they had done in
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