Did you know that New Cross was once known by a completely different name? This area, bustling with life today, used to be called Hatcham. It was a quieter place, a rural estate, until the 17th century when the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers took an interest in the land. One of the Haberdashers’ tenants, a man called Thomas Pepys, brother of the famous diarist Samuel Pepys, actually lived here. Samuel himself even visited Hatcham in the 1660s and mentioned it in his diary, naming his brother “Hatcham Pepys”. Hatcham and New Cross, however, did not merge into one name until the 18th century. The name New Cross, in fact, comes from a coaching house called the Golden Cross.
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