Hatcham was a manor and later a chapelry in what is now
London
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, England.
[John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)]
/ref> It largely corresponds to the area around New Cross
New Cross is an area in south east London, England, south-east of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Lewisham and the SE14 postcode district. New Cross is near St Johns, Telegraph Hill, Nunhead, Peckham, Brockley, Deptford and Greenwich, ...
in the London Borough of Lewisham
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.
The ancient parish of Deptford
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straddled the counties of Surrey
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and Kent
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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.[John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)]
/ref>['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
The Metropolitan Borough of Deptford was a Metropolitan borough in the County of London between 1900 and 1965, when it became part of the London Borough of Lewisham along with the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham.
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when the parish was divided in 1730.
It has lent its name to the ecclesiastical parish
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es of All Saints' Hatcham Park, St Catherine's Hatcham, and St James' Hatcham, as the Church of England
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has thus far avoided the neologism New Cross which came in after the railways were built.
In the Domesday Book
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it is recorded as ''Hacheham''. The name means "home of a man named Hæcci" and derives from an Old English
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personal name.[Mills, A., ''Dictionary of London Place Names'', (2001), Oxford] It is described as a manor containing land for three ploughs, nine villagers and two smallholders, of meadowland and woodland for 3 pigs.
Hatcham formed part of the Brixton Hundred of Surrey in medieval times.[ The manor was bought by the ]Haberdashers' Company
The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, one of the Great Twelve City Livery Companies, is an ancient merchant guild of London, England associated with the silk and velvet trades.
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The Haberdashers' Company follows the M ...
in 1614, which later demolished the former manor house (during the 1840s) for redevelopment and the foundation of its schools.[Lewisham London Borough Council ]
Hatcham
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Hatcham has been included within the Metropolitan Police District
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since 1830. In 1855 it was included in the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works
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, in the Greenwich District. It became part of the County of London
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in 1889 and the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
The Metropolitan Borough of Deptford was a Metropolitan borough in the County of London between 1900 and 1965, when it became part of the London Borough of Lewisham along with the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham.
History
The borough covered ...
in 1900.[
Although the ]place name
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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
Haberdashers' Hatcham College (formerly Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College) is a state secondary school with academy status and a music specialism located in New Cross. The school was formerly a grammar school, then a comprehensive City Tec ...
. Hatcham also constitutes a conservation area
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nowadays for planning
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purposes.[Lewisham London Borough Council ]
Hatcham Conservation Area
The area largely corresponds to the contemporary district known as New Cross Gate
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See also
* Worshipful Company of Haberdashers
The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, one of the Great Twelve City Livery Companies, is an ancient merchant guild of London, England associated with the silk and velvet trades.
History and functions
The Haberdashers' Company follows the M ...
* Arthur Tooth
Arthur Tooth (17 June 1839 – 5 March 1931) was a ritualist priest in the Church of England and a member of the Society of the Holy Cross. Tooth is best known for being prosecuted in 1876 under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 for u ...
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References
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Areas of London
Districts of the London Borough of Lewisham