Hendon
was a pleasant and extensive village seven miles from London containing
many fine mansion in or near the village. It possibly took its name
from the Saxon word for High Wood (possibly on account of its proximity
to Brockley Hill), or Hendon may be a corruption of the British name
Haen-Dun, "the old town" (during the medieval period the village
was often spelled "Heandune"). In Regency times the village
contained a charity for seventy children, forty of whom were allowed
clothing, and an almshouse for six men and four women founded in 1727
from a bequest made by Robert Daniel in 1681.
