foxhanger

Updated: May 9, 2025

It granted the land at Hamstede to one Mangoda, and the limits of the grant are thus stated: "From Sandgate along the road to Foxhanger; from the Hanger west to Watling Street north along the street to the Cucking Pool; from the Cucking Pool east to Sandgate."

G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton - Hampstead and Marylebone: The Fascination of London

Professor Hales, who thinks, whether genuine or not, this charter is certainly of value, interprets Sandgate as North End, Foxhanger as Haverstock Hill, Watling Street as Edgeware Road, and the Cucking Pool he concludes was in the marshy ground at the north-west corner of the parish.

G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton - Hampstead and Marylebone: The Fascination of London