Hatcham

{{Short description|Manor and chapelry in Surrey, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Use British English|date=September 2015}} thumb|Hatcham/New Cross in 1839 [[File:Haberdashers'_Aske's_Hatcham_College.jpg|thumb|Haberdashers' Hatcham College on Pepys Road, London SE14]] '''Hatcham''' was a manor and later a chapelry in what is now London, England.<ref name=wilson>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=770730&word=NULL John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)]</ref> It largely corresponds to the area around New Cross in the London Borough of Lewisham.

The ancient parish of Deptford straddled the counties of Surrey and Kent<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10078880&c_id=10001043 www.visionofbritain.org.uk]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and there came to be a doubt about which county jurisdiction the manor of Hatcham came under. In 1636, the matter was settled by placing it entirely within Surrey.<ref>[http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/archiveDownload?t=arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_1/surreyac001_122-155_hart.pdf www.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=bart>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=1679430&word=NULL John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)]</ref><ref name=bho>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43029 'Parishes: Hatcham (Parish of Deptford St Paul)', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4 (1912)]</ref> Hatcham became part of Deptford St Paul when the parish was divided in 1730.

It has lent its name to the ecclesiastical parishes of All Saints' Hatcham Park,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/search/?lat=51.48&lon=-0.045|title = A Church Near You}}</ref> St Catherine's Hatcham,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/search/?lat=51.472&lon=-0.045|title = A Church Near You}}</ref> and St James' Hatcham,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/search/?lat=51.48&lon=-0.043|title = A Church Near You}}</ref> as the Church of England has thus far avoided the neologism New Cross which came in after the railways were built.

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.<ref name=mills>Mills, A., ''Dictionary of London Place Names'', (2001), Oxford</ref> It is described as a manor containing land for three ploughs, nine villagers and two smallholders, {{convert|6|acre|m2}} of meadowland and woodland for 3 pigs.

Hatcham formed part of the Brixton Hundred of Surrey in medieval times.<ref name=wilson/> 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.<ref name=planning>Lewisham London Borough Council - [http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/Environment/Planning/ConservationAndUrbanDesign/ConservationAreas/Hatcham/ Hatcham] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204131439/http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/Environment/Planning/ConservationAndUrbanDesign/ConservationAreas/Hatcham/ |date=4 December 2008 }}</ref>

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.<ref name=bho/>

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' Hatcham College. Hatcham also constitutes a conservation area nowadays for planning purposes.<ref name=planning/><ref name=conserve>Lewisham London Borough Council - [http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/B5BD720C-9DFA-4CC2-8347-7F96FAFEBD90/0/Hatchamappraisalfinal.pdf Hatcham Conservation Area] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608215825/http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/B5BD720C-9DFA-4CC2-8347-7F96FAFEBD90/0/Hatchamappraisalfinal.pdf |date=8 June 2011 }}</ref> The area largely corresponds to the contemporary district known as New Cross Gate.<ref name=mills/>

== See also == * Worshipful Company of Haberdashers * Arthur Tooth

== Further reading== * {{cite journal |last1=Hart |first1=William Henry |title=A Memoir of the Manor of Hatcham, co. Surrey |journal=Surrey Archaeological Collections |date=1858 |volume=1 |pages=122–55}}

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Category:Areas of London Category:Districts of the London Borough of Lewisham