Editing Cheam (section)

==History==
The Roman road of [[Stane Street (Chichester)|Stane Street]] forms part of the boundary of Cheam. The modern London Road at North Cheam follows the course of the Roman road through the area. It is designated [[A24 road (Great Britain)|A24]].

The village lay within the [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] administrative division of [[Wallington Hundred|Wallington hundred]].<ref name="british-history.ac.uk">{{Cite web |title=Parishes: Cheam {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol4/pp194-199 |access-date=2023-04-02 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref> Cheam is mentioned in the Charters of [[Chertsey Abbey]] in 727, which mentions Cheam being given to the monastery of Chertsey in 675; the name appears as ''Cegeham''.<ref name="british-history.ac.uk"/> However, the Charters are of dubious origin and are now regarded as obvious fabrications.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/charters-of-chertsey-abbey-9780197265567?cc=gb&lang=en&# |title=Charters of Chertsey Abbey |date=2015-02-12 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-726556-7 |editor-last=Kelly |editor-first=Susan E. |series=Anglo-Saxon Charters |location=Oxford, New York |editor-last2=Kelly |editor-first2=Susan E.}}</ref><ref name="british-history.ac.uk"/> The name 'Cheam', based on ''Cegeham'', may mean 'village or homestead by the tree-stumps'.<ref>[[Eilert Ekwall]], ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.98.</ref>

[[File:Domesday Croydon Cheam.jpg|thumb|left|Entries for [[Croydon]] and Cheam in the 1783 published edition of [[Domesday Book]]]]
Cheam appears in [[Domesday Book]] as ''Ceiham''. Held by [[Archbishop Lanfranc]] of [[Canterbury]], its Domesday assets were four [[hide (unit)|hide]]s, one church, 17 [[plough]]s, {{convert|1|mi}} of [[meadow]], and [[woodland]] worth 25 [[hog (swine)|hog]]s. It rendered £14.<ref>[http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm Surrey Domesday Book] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070715015325/http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm |date=15 July 2007 }}</ref>

In the [[Middle Ages]], Cheam had potteries,<ref>http://www.commonwork.org/pdf/cheam.pdf {{Dead link|date=March 2016}}</ref> and recent excavations have been carried out by archaeologists.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Orton|first1=Clive |title=Medieval pottery from a kiln site at Cheam : Part 1 |journal=London Archaeologist |issue=3 |pages=300–304 |date=1979 |url=http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-457-1/dissemination/pdf/vol03/vol03_11/03_11_300_304.pdf}}</ref> In 1259, [[Henry III of England]] made Cheam a town by charter.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Cheam Charter Fair breaks with tradition |url=https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9728273.cheam-charter-fair-breaks-with-tradition/ |access-date=2023-04-02 |website=Your Local Guardian |language=en}}</ref> In 1538, part of Cheam was handed over to [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]. The same year, Henry began work on [[Nonsuch Palace]], which he decorated elaborately. This was later sold and demolished.

In 1801, the time of the first census, Cheam had a population of 616 Cheamonians.

Cheam was the original home of [[Cheam School]] which was formed in Whitehall in 1645 and later occupied Tabor Court from 1719 until 1934 when the school moved to Berkshire. [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Philip]] attended the school in the years immediately preceding its move.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Heald |first=Tim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gT1qQgAACAAJ |title=The Duke: A Portrait of Prince Philip |date=1991 |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=978-0-340-54607-9 |pages=35–39 |language=en}}</ref>