BROCKLEY AND HONOR OAK. 117 
Park Road, and. came: out into Brockley Road, not far from the 
farm. The remainder was open country, with woods stretching 
over the whole of Honor Oak, from the borders of Surrey down to 
Brockley Road and up Brockley Hill. The woods have long since 
disappeared, and streets are fast covering the fields. 
Adelaide Road is built on part of the Bridge House estates, the 
trustees of which gave the site for St. Cyprian’s Church, built in 
1901. Ivy Lane, which bounds the northern side of the Cemetery, 
is an ancient right of way which appears on the maps of 1745. The 
history of the site of the Cemetery has already been given (page 114). 
PLATE 52.—THE ‘‘ BROCKLEY JACK" INN. 
Further along the Brockley Road is Crofton Park Station, on the 
Nunhead and Shortlands Railway, which has given its name (a 
modern one) to the surrounding roads. 
A word must be said of the ‘Brockley Jack,” once an old-world, 
wayside, wooden hostelry, which is said to have been frequented by 
Dick Turpin and other highwaymen, and, since in those days there 
was scarcely a house in Brockley Lane (as it was then called) from 
Stanstead (Stonystreet) Lane to New Cross, it must have been an 
ideal spot as a rendezvous. In the Enclosure Award of 1810 it is 
styled the ‘‘ Brockley Castle,” and then stood on Brockley Green, 
which was enclosed by the Act of Parliament of that year. 
Honor Oak is marked in Rocque’s map of 1745 as ‘‘ Oak of 
Arnon,” probably due to a fault in the local pronunciation of that 
