Hatcham
Hatcham was a manor and later a chapelry in that part of the ancient parish of Deptford in Surrey. It largely corresponds to the area around New Cross Gate station.
As the ancient parish of Deptford straddled the counties of Surrey and Kent there was some doubt over the county in which the manor of Hatcham was situated, and in 1636 the matter was settled, determining that it was entirely within the Brixton Hundred of Surrey. Hatcham became part of Deptford St Paul when the parish was divided in 1730.
It has lent its name to the subsequently created ecclesiastical parishes of All Saints' Hatcham Park, St Catherine's and St James' Hatcham, the latter two of which also include parts of Kent.
In the Domesday Book it is recorded as Hacheham. The name means "home of a man named Hæcci" and derives from an Old English personal name.[1] It is described as a manor containing land for three ploughs, nine villagers and two smallholders, six acres of meadowland and woodland for three pigs.
The manor was bought by the Haberdashers' Company in 1614, which later demolished the former manor house (during the 1840s) for redevelopment and the foundation of its schools.[2]
Hatcham has been included within the Metropolitan Police District since 1830.
Although the place name has largely fallen out of common parlance, its use is retained by several organisations including the Hatcham Liberal Club on Queen's Road and in the names of Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys and Girls Grammar Schools, founded in 1876. These have both now been converted to City academies. Hatcham also constitutes a conservation area nowadays for planning purposes.[2][3] The area largely corresponds to the contemporary district known as New Cross Gate.[1]
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- Location map: 51°28’19"N, 0°2’42"W
