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Charlton, London history
Toponymy
Charlton is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Cerletone . It is formed from Old English ‘ceorl’ and ‘tūn’ and means ‘farmstead of the freemen or peasants’ During the 19th century the riverside portion of the area became known as New Charlton .
Middle Ages
Charlton is assessed in the Domesday Book of 1086 at one “sulung”, which is commonly held to have been the equivalent of two hides . A church dedicated to St Luke is recorded in the village as early as 1077, but no trace of the medieval building survives .
Renaissance
Sir Adam Newton, tutor to Prince Henry, had a new manor house, Charlton House, built in the village . The Jacobean mansion by architect John Thorpe was never used by the prince, who died in 1612 .
Early Modern
The manor was subsequently acquired by the colonial administrator Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet, who is buried in the parish church . Upon his death without issue in 1715, his possessions in Charlton and Hampstead passed to the Conyers baronets .
Industrialisation
Charlton Riverside has been a significant industrial area since Victorian times . Heavy industry centred on Charlton Pier led to a number of serious fires in the area in the mid 19th century . Siemens Brothers Telegraph Works (although largely in the parish of Woolwich) manufactured two new transatlantic cables in the 1880s .
20th century
Italian writer Italo Svevo lived in a house on Charlton Church Lane which now bears a blue plaque in his honour . He had arrived in 1903 as a director in a Trieste firm selling high-quality underwater paint for ships .
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