Flint Axe

There have been a number of finds of flint and bone tools and weapons from the Mesolithic period (about 7000BC) at Hampton, particularly during the housing development at the Cannon Field.

Hampton Hill High Street

Hampton, and Hampton Hill, together with Hampton Wick, were part of a single Anglo-Saxon parish. At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086 Hampton was described as Hamntone. This name is believe to derive from the Anglo-Saxon words meaning the settlement in the bend of the river. After the Norman Conquest in 1066, Hampton Town developed about a mile upstream from the original settlement near Hampton Court, where St Mary’s Church now stands.

Hampton Wick formed its own Local Board in 1863, but Hampton did not form a Board until 1890 and both became Urban District Councils in 1895.