great house built by John Stanley, which was sited north of the junction of Park Road and Hamptons road.³⁹ This has disappeared. A new Hamptons was built in the nineteenth century, higher up the hill.⁴⁰
   Not only did Hampton give his name to this piece of West Peckham but he may be the originator of the name attached to a piece of foreshore near Herne Bay. His will provided for masses to be said for his soul in the church of Herne in Kent.⁴¹ Whether he had family connections with Herne is unknown but he must have been familiar with the place. One mile west of Herne church is a beach called Hampton with a pier bearing the same name.⁴² On this beach, from the sixteenth century, there were