Editing Radlett (section)

===Post-Roman period===
Wratten notes that the area was settled by the Saxons by the sixth century, with suggestions that a Saxon church was established on the site of Aldenham Church in King Offa's time. For most of recorded history, the land to the East of Watling Street was administered separately to that on the West.<ref name="wratten1997">{{cite book |last=Wratten |first=Donald |title=The Book of Radlett and Aldenham |publisher=Baron Birch |date=1997|edition=3rd }}</ref>

The Domesday survey of 1086 confirms that most of the land was in the possession of the Abbey of Westminster, though parts of Titeberst (land to the east of Watling Street) were claimed by St Albans. The two major tenants were listed as Geoffrey de Mandeville and Geoffrey de Bec and they leased part of their holdings to tenant farmers. The land was densely forested but was gradually cleared throughout the medieval period for agricultural use and the population lived in dispersed farm settlements adjacent to field strips or scattered around the periphery of common land which made up a substantial part of the southern and western area of the Parish.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hertsmere.gov.uk/Documents/09-Planning--Building-Control/Building--Tree-Conservation/Conservation-Areas/Radlett-South-CAA-Report.pdf |title=Radlett (South) Conservation Area Appraisal 2012, based on Wratten 1997}}</ref>

It is known that in the thirteenth century, gallows were erected jointly by the Abbots of Westminster and St Albans 'in a certain spot called Keneprowe' (now Kemp Row), for trials conducted at Aldenham.<ref name="wratten1997"/>

Radlett seems to have consisted of two farms: Darnells (first mentioned in 1358) and Gills Hill on the west side of Watling Street; and the estates of Aldenham Lodge, Newberries and Organ Hall on the east, plus Newlands (first recorded in 1291) and a few cottages. There are records of at least two other medieval moated homesteads within the Parish – Penne's Place and Kendals, but tantalisingly little physical evidence.<ref name="wratten1997"/>

The first recorded reference of Radlett comes from 1453 and it was usually spelt with one T until the mid-nineteenth century. With the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536, the disputes over land ownership in the Parish between St Albans Abbey and Westminster Abbey ceased to be viable and the land was sold to create revenue for the Crown.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hertsmere.gov.uk/Documents/09-Planning--Building-Control/Building--Tree-Conservation/Conservation-Areas/Radlett-South-CAA-Report.pdf |title=Radlett (South) Conservation Area Appraisal 2012, citing Wratten}}</ref>