112 BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM. 
does not refer to this well in his History of Kent (1778), but 
Lysons, in his History of the Environs of London (1796--1811), says: 
‘¢ Between Lewisham and Brockley is a well of the same quality as 
those at Tunbridge. A woman attends to serve the water, which 
is delivered gratis to inhabitants of the parish. The spring is the 
property of !.ord Dartmouth.” This well was situated about 
half-way up the hill leading to the Cemetery, in a portion of 
ground enclosed from the waste, on which two small cottages were 
built. The well known as ‘‘ Ladywell’’ was not far from the 
western bank of the Ravensbourne, and the site is now covered by 
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PLATE 49.—LADYWELL BRIDGE, 1810. 
the arches of the roadway which crosses the Mid-Kent line. The 
coping stones of this well are preserved in the garden of the 
Lewisham Swimming Baths. 
From the late date at which the name first appears, we can 
come to no other conclusion but that it is a pretty but fanciful title, 
and has no connection with the Patron Saint of Lewisham Parish: 
Church. * 
Turning into Ladywell Road from the Vicarage, there formerly 
existed at the end of the Vicarage wall three old houses of Georgian 
date. These were demolished about 1890. Opposite to them was. 
a row of small tenements, the backs of which formed the fruit wall 
* The whole question was discussed by Mr. C. A. Bradford, F.S.A., in the- 
‘* Home Counties Magazine,” for July, 1903. 
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