Hatchford rests almost wholly on the high Bagshot Formation (above the flood plain of the River Mole), on a country road between Cobham, Martyrs Green, Ockham and Downside.

In the eighteenth century, it belonged for a time to Andrew Ramsay, a wealthy landowner and Acting Governor of Bombay for a period.

Her mother, Lady Charlotte Greville (née Cavendish-Bentinck) died at Hatchford Park on 28 July 1862, aged 86.

The main house was remodelled in c1890 by Rowland Plumbe[9] in mock Jacobean style for its then owner, the City stockbroker, Walter Moresby Chinnery.

Its last private owner as a single house was the steel magnate William John Firth, who lived there in the 1930s.

At the same time as remodelling the main house, Lord Ellesmere also gave land and funds to build a small church, St. Matthews, on his estate.

As the manor house of Cobham it was "several times visited here by the late duke of York, and other members of the royal family".

[4] Where the M25 motorway cuts through the hamlet is Brickfield copse, named after early brickworks and claypits located there.

A pest house, for victims of smallpox and other contagious diseases, was also established there, near the sixteenth century Pointers Farm Cottage, some time before 1711.