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 acre of meadowland and woodland for 3 pigs.

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

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.

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. The area largely corresponds to the contemporary district known as New Cross Gate.