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Plans, Maps and Guides
Location of Monken Hadley CommonPlan of Monken Hadley Common
Plans of Monken Hadley Common (West) 1865-2011Based on old Ordnance Survey maps at 1:2,500. For the meaning of abbreviations used on these maps, click the pin in the top right hand corner of the first page, and another pdf will open.
Plans of Monken Hadley Common (Central) 1865-2011Based on old Ordnance Survey maps at 1:2,500. For the meaning of abbreviations used on these maps, click the pin in the top right hand corner of the first page, and another pdf will open.
Plans of Monken Hadley Common (East) 1865-2011Based on old Ordnance Survey maps at 1:2,500. For the meaning of abbreviations used on these maps, click the pin in the top right hand corner of the first page, and another pdf will open.
Map of “MIDLE-SEX” by the Dutch engraver
Pieter van den Keere (1571-1646)This map, which was published in London in 1627, is re-engraving of van den Keere's original map of 1605, but with titles in English. It shows, between “Bernet” and “Ludgraues”, what is now know as Jack's Lake.
London LOOP,
- Section 16 (Elstree to Cockfosters) Section 16 of the LOOP crosses the Common.
Pymmes Brook Trail
- Monken Hadley Common to Pickett's LockPymmes Brook Trail starts on the Common.
Monken Hadley TrailPublished by Culture24. The Trail doesn't actually cross the Common, though it does offer an interesting walk through the village of Monken Hadley.
Rambles Round BarnetPart 2 of “Rambles Round Barnet” gives details of two circular walks around the Common.
Part 1 and Part 2 of the guides - written by Owen Jones and published for The Barnet Society by Barnet Museum & Local History Society - are available from the Barnet Museum, price £4 each.
Local Pubs
The Hadley Hotel, 113 Hadley Road, EN5 5QNThe hotel (& pub) is about 300 metres south of the Common, and is very convenient for walkers on the London Loop (leave the Common by the Hadley Road gate).The Cock Inn, Chalk Lane, Cockfosters, EN4 9HUThe Cock Inn is immediately east of the Common, on the London Loop about 50 metres from the Games Road gate.
The Enfield Chase Act, 1777
The Act (which created the Common)17 Geo. III c.17Plan of the Common in 1777 (taken from the plan which accompanied the Act)Tracing made in 1884 from an original copy of the 1777 Plan held by the Duchy of Lancaster
Table of References to the 1777 PlanList of enchroachments into Enfield Chase enfranchised by the 1777 Act i.e. a list of the land granted to the occupiers by the Act.
(Copy made in 1884)
Documents
Report of the Committee to Investigate Common Rights (1902)Report of the committee appointed at the meeting of Commoners held on Easter Tuesday, 1901Monken Hadley Common Management Plan, 2016/17 to 2021/22The current Management Plan
Monken Hadley Common Management Plan, 2010/11 to 2015/16The previous Management Plan
Woodland Management Plan 2016The Woodland Management Plan
Monken Hadley Conservation Area Character Appraisal Statement, 2007Published by Barnet Council
Links
Victoria County History - Monken HadleyMonken Hadley by Frederick Charles Cass, M.A.Rev. Frederick Charles Cass M.A. (Oxon) (1824-96) was Rector of Monken Hadley between 1860 and 1891.
St Mary's Church, Monken HadleyMonken Hadley Parish Church
Monken Hadley Cricket ClubMHCC's pitch is at the western end of the Common.
Hadley Angling and Preservation Society (HAPS)The fishing of Jack's Lake (which lies partly on the Common) is leased to HAPS.
Day tickets are available.
Designed by Les Bedford
Published by the Trustees of Monken Hadley Common, a Statutory Corporation established under the Enfield Chase Act of 1777 - 17 Geo.III.c.17