Welcome to Lewisham Park a
residential area in the Borough of
Lewisham,
South East London.
This site is to show how the area has developed
over the years.
Lewisham Park originally formed part of the great
"Southfield" of the Manor. The name was perpetuated in the
villas erected at the southern corner near Mount Pleasant Road (nos. 359
and 361). The earliest mention of the field is in a grant about the year
1260, by one William le Plummer, of Leuesham, to John, called "Ferdebin,"
of all his land in the field called "Suthfield" in Leuesham,
adjoining the land of the Prior of Leuesham, and in an extent of the
Manor of Lewisham in 1370, it is recorded that "in the same manor
there are in Suthfield 40 acres of arable land of the value of 3d per
acre."
The land was "half year" land i.e., it was open for the
benefit of the freeholders of the manor yearly, from Lammas to ploughing
time. These rights were ended by the Lewisham Enclosure Act 1810. Under
the name of Lewisham Park it was laid out for for building about 1840,
the houses being well set back from the high road, and the whole centre
of the field left an open space, with houses built on the outer circle.
If other landowners would follow this excellent example, there would be
less danger of over crowding and insanitary areas.
