HAMPSTEAD
The name of this borough is clearly derived from "ham," or "hame," a home; and "steede," a place, and has consequently the same meaning as homestead. Park, in a note in his book on Hampstead, says that the "p" is a modern interpolation, scarcely found before the seventeenth century, and not in general use until the eighteenth.
HISTORY
Lysons says that the Manor of Hampstead was given in 986 A.D. by King Ethelred to the church at...
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