SYDENHAM. 151 
district to be created within the ancient civil Parish of Lewisham. 
It was built in 1832, and enlarged in 1858. 
Descending West Hill we come to the ground west of 
Sydenham Station, known in the 18th and early 19th century as 
Pigg Hill, which has now been softened into Peak Hill. The name 
reminds us of the early custom of turning the swine into the forest 
to feed on the acorns and beech mast, the toll for which here was 
50 hogs paid yearly to the Lord of the Manor, as noted in 
Domesday. Sydenham Park occupies the site of the large 
reservoir which was formed to feed the Croydon Canal from 1809 
to 1836. 
There are still a few old houses left in Sydenham Road, but 
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PLATE 70.—THE ‘‘GREYHOUND” INN, SYDENHAM, WITH THE CANAL, 
IN 1818. 
they are rapidly disappearing. The ‘‘ Dolphin” Inn, near Mayow 
Road, is mentioned in the Parish Registers for 1st July, 1733, when 
‘Stephen son of,Richard Peke from Sipenham, y* Dolphin,” was 
buried, whilst on the sotithern side of the road is another old 
hostelry, the ‘‘ Golden Lion,” from which one, John Robinson, was 
buried on the 24th May, 1746. The “Greyhound” Inn, at Peak 
Hill, is also an old house. A pencil sketch of it in 1810 is in the 
British Museum. (Add. MS. 32360, fol. 233). (Plate 70). 
The site of Christ Church is marked in Rocque’s map (1745) 
as ‘‘ Dissenters’ Meeting.” The house of Alexander Lindsay, of 
Sydenham Causeway, had been licensed in 1707 by Bishop Sprat, 
for the use of Presbyterians, being the first recognised place of 
