Ludgrove, or Ludgrave, or Ludgraves, was an estate and farm in

Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, historic county in South East England, southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the Ceremonial counties of ...

between

Monken Hadley Monken Hadley is a place in the London Borough of Barnet. An ancient country village north of Barnet, it is now a suburban development on the very edge of Greater London north north-west of Charing Cross, while retaining much of its rural cha ...

in the west and

Cockfosters Cockfosters is a suburb of north London to the east of Chipping Barnet, lying partly in the London Borough of Enfield and partly in the London Borough of Barnet. Before 1965, it was in the counties of Middlesex and Hertfordshire. Origins and ...

in the east in what is now north London. It was centered on Ludgrove Farm (the Blue House) near to Cockfosters.

History

The Ludgrove estate may have derived its name from

William Lyghtgrave William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

who in 1423 conveyed it to William Somercotes, Thomas Frowke, and other parties. At that time it consisted of a messuage (probably the farm house near Cockfosters) and 120 acres of land, 80 of wood in Hadley. and 80 of meadow. The land was transferred to the Crown in 1542.''Monken Hadley Conservation Area Character Appraisal Statement''

London Borough of Barnet The London Borough of Barnet () is a suburban London boroughs, London borough in North London. The borough was formed in 1965 from parts of the ceremonial counties of Middlesex and Hertfordshire. It forms part of Outer London and is the largest ...

, Barnet, 2007, pp. 39-41. At the start of the reign of Elizabeth I,

Thomas Tyndale Thomas Tyndale (1528/33 – 1571) was the member of the Parliament of England for Marlborough for the parliament of April 1554.

, later the member of Parliament for Marlborough, was living at Ludgrove when the estate was stated to have been formerly held by

John Perte John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

.TYNDALE, Thomas (1528/33-71), of London, Ludgrave, Mdx. and Thornbury, Glos.
''The History of Parliament''. Retrieved 10 December 2018. It was later owned by Sir Roger Wilbraham who built

almshouse An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) was charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the medieval era. They were often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain ...

s in nearby

in 1612."Take a Tour of the Common"
Monken Hadley Common. Retrieved 9 December 2018.

Ludgrove Hall Ludgrove Hall is an historic manor house in the parish of Monken Hadley, formerly within the county of Middlesex. Today the property has been overtaken by the suburbs of North London, and is situated on Games Road, Cockfosters, on the edge of ...

was built on the site of the farm in the 1830s and was the home of

Francis Bevan Francis (Frank) Augustus Bevan (17 January 184031 August 1919) was a British heir and banker. He served as the chairman of Barclays Bank, a British multi-national financial institution, serving from 1896 to 1916. Early life Francis Augustus Bev ...

and then

Ludgrove School Ludgrove School is an English independent boys preparatory boarding school. Ludgrove was founded in 1892 at Ludgrove Hall in Middlesex by the Old Etonian sportsman Arthur Dunn. Dunn had been employed as a master at Elstree School, which sent boys ...

which has since moved to Wokingham.

References

External links

Farms in England Middlesex Monken Hadley {{England-geo-stub