Hatcham

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Hatcham/New Cross in 1839
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College on Pepys Road

Hatcham was a manor and later chapelry in what is now London, England.[1] It corresponds to the area around New Cross Gate station in the London Borough of Lewisham.

The ancient parish of Deptford was partly in the counties of Surrey and Kent. There was some doubt over which county the manor of Hatcham was situated in, and in 1636 the matter was settled placing it entirely within Surrey.[2][3][4][5] Hatcham became part of Deptford St Paul when the parish was divided in 1730.

It also gave its name to the ecclesiastical parishes of All Saints, Hatcham Park and St James, Hatcham which extended into the Kent section of the parish.

In the Domesday Book it is recorded as Hacheham. The name means home of a man named Hæcci and is formed from an Old English personal name.[6] It is described as a manor containing land for three ploughs, nine villagers and two smallholders, 6 acres (24,000 m2) of meadowland and woodland for 3 pigs.

Hatcham formed part of the Brixton hundred of Surrey.[1] The manor was bought by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers in 1614 and the manor house was demolished in the 1840s.[7]

Hatcham has been included within the Metropolitan Police District since 1830. In 1855 it was included in the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works, in the Greenwich District. It became part of the County of London in 1889 and the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford in 1900.[4]

Although the place name has largely fallen out of use, it remains in the names of several organisations including The Hatcham Liberal Club on Queen's Road and in the names of Haberdashers' Askes Hatcham Boys and Girls grammar schools, founded in 1876. These have both now been converted to City Academies. The name Hatcham also forms a conservation area for the purposes of planning.[7][8] The area largely corresponds to the contemporary district known as New Cross Gate.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
  2. ↑ http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/archiveDownload?t=arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_1/surreyac001_122-155_hart.pdf
  3. ↑ John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 'Parishes: Hatcham (Parish of Deptford St Paul)', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4 (1912)
  5. ↑ GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Deptford St Paul CP (historic map). Retrieved on 2008-07-10.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Mills, A., Dictionary of London Place Names, (2001), Oxford
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Lewisham London Borough Council - Hatcham
  8. ↑ Lewisham London Borough Council - Hatcham conservation area

Coordinates: 51°28′19″N 0°02′42″W / 51.4720°N 0.0450°W / 51.4720; -0.0450

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