142 BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM. 
an old thoroughfare leading to Forest Hill. In the 17th century 
it was known as Stanyhurst Lane, from which Stanstead has 
obviously been derived. On Rocque’s map (1745) it is curiously 
corrupted into Steucers Lane. It was then a country lane with no 
houses, and it was only during the latter half of the last century 
that buildings began to cover the fields, at first on the northern or 
right hand side on the property of the Earl of St. Germans, and 
later on the southern side. The Cranston, Kemble and Colfe 
Roads are built on part of the Colfe estates, on a field known as 
Great Ozey lands, purchased in 1655 by Mr. Colfe from Mr. George 
Edmund, who then owned the Manor of Sydenham. 
Stanstead Road seems to have formed the southern boundary 
of the Manor of Bankers, the eastern boundary of which to 
PLATE 65.—CATFORD BRIDGE, ABOUT 1835. 
Lewisham Bridge was the River Ravensbourne. Beyond Kemble 
Road, the area ‘of about 64 acres now covered by the parallelogram 
formed by Stanstead Road, Sunderland Road, Westbourne Road 
and Perry Vale, was anciently the great field of the Manor of 
Lewisham, called Pikethorne, being ihc or half-year land. It 
is mentioned in the Rental of the reign of Edward ie and in more 
recent times in the Inclosure Award ‘of 1810. 
At the entrance to Stanstead Road is St. Dunstan’s College, 
the largest Secondary Public School for Boys in the neighbourhood. 
It owes its origin to the various bequests which had been made to 
the Parish of St. Dunstan-in-the-East, in the City of London. By 
