Hedgerley
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Hedgerley is a village and civil parish in south Buckinghamshire, England. The parish is located two miles to the west of Gerrards Cross, four miles south east of Beaconsfield. The parish has incoporated the formerly separate parish of Hedgerley Dean since 1934 (which was once a hamlet in parish of Farnham Royal). [1]
The village name 'Hedgerley' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Hycga's woodland clearing'. In manorial rolls in 1195 it was recorded as Huggeleg[2].
Hedgerley was used as a filming location for the BBC1 spy drama Spooks. The Episode initially aired on Sunday 17 September 2006 on BBC3 at 10 p.m. It was then shown at the standard time of 9 p.m. on BBC1 the following night. The episode revolved around an attempted a coup d'etat of the British government by the head of a fictitious multinational and the head of MI6. The scene featuring Hedgerley involved an officer of MI5 (Jo Portman played by Miranda Raison) engaged in the protection duty of the Prime Minister's Son.
[edit] References
- ^ VoB on Hedgerley
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of Place Names
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