Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Henle c.1180 Wollaton

• Henlea c.1185 France

• Henleye in Arderne 1343 Pat 1541 AD

• Henleye in Arthern 1472 ADv

• Hendley 1446 KnowleG

• Hendley Bewdesert al. Henneley in Ardern 1547 Monast

• Henley in Arden al. Henley Beaudesert 1554 Pat

• Henley upon Northen 1629 PCC

• Hanley 1275 RH

Etymology

'At the high clearing,'v. heah , leah . For Arden v. supra 11.“But in truth it ought to have been written Heanley , as the ordinary sort of people doe still pronounce it; for that was its original name, and occasioned from the ascending ground, whereunto it is so neerly situate, hean in our old English signifying high ” (Dugdale 597).