Hatcham

Hatcham was a manor and later chapelry in what is now London, England. It corresponds to the area around New Cross Gate station in the London Borough of Lewisham. The civil parish of St Paul Deptford was partly in the counties of Surrey and Kent, with Hatcham forming the part in Surrey. 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. It is described as a manor containing land for three ploughs, nine villagers and two smallholders, 6 acres (24,000 m) of meadowland and woodland for 3 pigs. Hatcham...