Editing Chalk Farm (section)

===Manor of Rugmere===
Chalk Farm was originally known as the Manor of Rugmere, an estate that was mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086.<ref>Domesday Online resource https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ2983/rug-moor/</ref> The manor was one of five which made up the large [[Civil Parish#Ancient Parishes|Ancient Parish]] of [[St Pancras, London|St Pancras]].<ref>BHO on the manor of Rugmere, ie Chalk Farm, being part of the parish of St Pancras 'Introduction', in Survey of London: Volume 19, the Parish of St Pancras Part 2: Old St Pancras and Kentish Town, ed. Percy Lovell and William McB. Marcham (London, 1938), pp. 1-31. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol19/pt2/pp1-31 [accessed 16 May 2020].</ref> Rugmere is thought to mean ''the [[Woodcock|Woodcock's]] Pool''.<ref>London, 800-1216: The Shaping of the City p 343, referring to Place Names of Middlesex p142</ref>

[[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] bought part of the manor, detaching it to form the north-eastern part of what would become [[Regent's Park]], the remainder subsequently become more commonly known as Chalk Farm. Both the detached area and the remainder remained part of the parish of [[St Pancras, London|St Pancras]].

In 1786 the estate was sold to [[Charles FitzRoy, 1st Baron Southampton]], it was described as ''commonly known as Chalk Farm''. The term ''Rugmere (or Rug Moor)'' appeared to have endured for some time as a field name.