92 BOROUGH OF LEWI/ISHAM. 
being built first at the north-east corner towards Blackheath 
Village and afterwards along Lee Road. The avenue diagonally 
through the property was converted into the road named Lee 
Park, houses being built on either side. 
Lee Road was a very rural spot in the early part of the 19th 
century, with much broom and furze, which also abounded in Lee 
Park. At the south end of Lee Road we arrive at Lee Green 
(so-called nowadays). The Green was formerly about two acres 
in extent, with a féw cottages and the ‘‘Tiger’s Head” Inn, which 
was originally built about 1766. A windmill also existed on the 
eastern side. The whole of this part of the parish was much 
subject to inundations from the sudden rising of the Quaggy, and 
at Christmas, 1830, the water is recorded as having been 7ft. deep 
at Lee Green. The Green was a favourite resort for meetings not 
always conducted in the quietest manner. It was gradually built 
over, Wall’s Place, Eastbourne and Gordon Terraces being built 
on part of it. Races were formerly held in Lee Park until the 
building operations began, when they were held in the Harrow 
meadows (so named from a public-house called the ‘‘ Harrow,” 
which formerly stood there). 
A short distance along the Eltham Road stood the farm build- 
ings of Lee Green Farm, ‘and near the boundary with Eltham the 
Lee Toll Gate, which was abolished in 1866. The boundary 
between Lee and Eltham passes across the Eltham Road and 
through Horne Park southwards, Burnt Ash Road running cent- 
rally through this part of the parish. The origin of this name is 
obscure. In early documents it is called Brindishe. It may be 
derived from the making of charcoal from the wood which 
formerly covered the southern part of the parish. 
Half-way up Burnt Ash Hill we come to the turning to 
Bromley, now known as Baring Road. This leads to Grove Park, 
so named from Grove Farm then existing. Burnt Ash Hill itself 
continues into Burnt Ash Lane, formerly known as Marvell’s 
Lane, so called from its leading to ‘‘The Marvells,” a farm and 
piece of woodland at the Bromley end of the parish. The 
boundary of the parish on the west is formed for some distance 
by a small stream which runs by the side of Shroffield’s Manor in 
Lewisham. This stream runs at the rear of the Lee Cemetery and 
along the side of Hither Green Lane, and, passing under the 
S.E. Railway, joins the Quaggy in Manor Park. 
Returning to Lee Green on our way back to Lewisham we 
come to the bridge over the Quaggy, which was enlarged about 
1825 to allow the water to flow more freely with a view to obviate 
the overflowing of the river. Camden Place was built at the same 
time, the first of the modern smaller houses. Boone’s Almshouses, 
a little further towards London, were built in 1875 on the removal 
of the original buildings, to which we shall refer atesontiee Lamp- 
mead Road commemorates a field formerly given to Lee Church to 
maintain a lamp in the church before the altar. Confiscated at the 
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