$2 BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM. 
Hill House. On this property and the chalk pits several roads 
have recently been built, with the more or less appropriate names 
of Shell Road, Undercliff Road, etc. 
At the top of Loampit Hill, the boundary between Lewisham 
and Deptford is reached. This runs by the side of the Nunhead 
and Greenwich Railway on the right. On the left the boundary 
formerly ran along the lane, called in modern times White Post 
Lane, at the rear of the gardens of the houses in Tyrwhitt Road, 
but by a recent rearrangement the eastern side of Tyrwhitt Road 
now forms the boundary. 
Having reached the parish boundary on the London Road we 
must now retrace our steps to Lewisham Bridge, and start again 
PLATE 28.— Mr. LEE’s House, LoAmpit HILL, 1824. 
from ‘‘ The Obelisk.” This, by-the-way, is a misnomer. The site 
was occupied formerly by a lamp post, which was replaced by 
a fountain with lights overhead. This was popularly dubbed ‘‘ The 
Obelisk,” and the name has remained. 
Down to about the year 1840, the ground on the further side 
of the Quaggy from the Plough Bridge to Lee Bridge was farm 
land, corn and pasture, with the well- wooded rising ground of 
‘‘ Belmont” and ‘‘ The Cedars’’ in the rear. A small stream from 
Wricklemarsh, which occupied the valley in which the Blackheath 
Railway now runs, after feeding the ponds in the grounds of ‘‘ The 
Cedars” emptied itself into the Quaggy. Two or ‘three small villas 
were built near Lee Bridge, by the turning to Belmont Hill, and 
