154 BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM. 
still exist. The farm lands are now being built over. The road 
now known as Sangley Road was tormerly styled Cockshed Lane, 
and led to a farm of that name, which may possibly have been a 
moderr form of Crokestede, which occurs in medizval documents 
as a place name in the parish. 
Beyond Sangley, and still on the eastern side of the road, is 
another farm known as White House, which is shown on 
Rocque’s map of 1745. 
All this portion of the Borough on either side of the road forms 
the old Manor of Bellingham. At what period it was alienated by 
the Abbot of Ghent is unknown, but it became part of the 
possessions of the Cistercian Monastery of Stratford Langthorne, 
at West Ham, Essex, founded in 1134 by William de Montfichet. 
It was confirmed to them by Henry II, and in an award dated 1218 
concerning tithes, it is stated to consist of two hides. At the 
dissolution it came to the Crown, and was granted in 1554 to 
Richard Whetely, whose grandson sold it to John Leigh, and he in 
1598 sold it to James Altham. From him it descended to Charles 
Tryon, who in 1724 sold it to Thomas Inwen, whose only daughter, 
Sarah (Lady Falkland), having no children, bequeathed it to Mr. 
Francis Motley Austen, of Sevenoaks. The Austens exchanged 
Bellingham for other property with the Forsters. The old Manor 
House was largely rebuilt early in the 19th century by Mr. Robert 
Saunders, and is now styled Park House. The old Manor Farm 
still exists by the banks of the Ravensbourne, and is probably as 
old as the early part of the 17th century. 
Whitefoot Lane leading to Shroffold Farm and Hither Green 
is not shown on Rocque’s map of 1745, and is presumably of later 
date. The name, which seems to be derived from a belt of wood- 
land known as Whitefoot Shaw, first occurs towards the end of 
the 18th century. 
At the corner of Whitefoot Lane is ‘‘ The Hall,” one of the 
residences of H. W. Forster, Esq., M.p., who is the largest land- 
owner in the Borough, holding over 1,000 acres. 
The houses in Southend Village are now nearly all modern, 
but they stand on old sites. The ‘‘ Tiger’s Head” was anciently 
known as Randall’s House. It was the residence of the How’s, 
who worked the mill hard by. Subsequently it was tenanted by 
Mr. Richard Chillingworth, who appears to have turned it into an 
inn. It was a house of early 18th century date, but has recently 
been rebuilt. Neither it nor the ‘‘Green Man” appear in the 
Parish Registers, but a ‘‘ King’s Arms, Southend,” is mentioned in 
1739, and the ‘‘ George, Southend,” occurs frequently from 1713 
onwards. The ‘‘King’s Arms” was the old red brick house in the 
High Road near Bellingham Farm. 
The Ravensbourne enters the Borough of Lewisham a little to 
the south of Southend, in the grounds of Bromley Hill House. In 
deeds of the reign of Henry VII it is styled the ‘‘ Randisbourne.” 
At Southend there are two mills, now both corn mills, but that in 
