98 BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM. 
the village youth of the time. Avenue Road takes its name from 
a long avenue of poplar trees which extended towards Fuller’s 
Place. The house was pulled down about 1835, when Avenue 
Road was formed, the shops from John’s Place to Avenue Road 
were. built and named Frederick’s Place, and also Lewisham 
Terrace, between Avenue Road and Fuller’s Place. All these 
changes marked the increase of population caused by the move of 
Londoners towards the suburbs. 
On the other side of the road, occupying the site of Clarendon 
Road, Albion Road, Bonfield Road and Gilmore Road was College 
Farm, part of the endowment of the College of The Holy Trinity 
at Greenwich, founded in 1613 by the Earl of Northampton. The 
PLATE 40.-—COLLEGE FARM Howusk, 1860. 
farm house (Plate 40) stood on the ground now occupied by 
Nos. 131 to 135, at the corner of Albion Road. : 
In Clarendon Road is St. Mark’s Church, built in 1870. 
Lower down the road is the Baptist Church, built in 1873. In 
Albion Road is the Wesleyan Church, built in 1867. The first 
Wesleyan centre was formed in 1822, in a room near Lewisham 
Bridge. In 1838 a small chapel was built in Avenue Road, which 
was enlarged in 1863, and is now occupied by the Salvation 
Army. é 
At the top of College Park is Holly Hedge Terrace, which is 
