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Post to the north Shooters Hill
A2 Relief Road
1885-88. 244 house
demolished and 8 acres of open space gone. Green Link Bridge across the two
bits of Eltham Park.
Corbett Estate
Grid of streets with
Scottish names round the station. Thomas Jackson's estate bought by Jamieson
and sold to Corbett. Lib MP for Glasgow. Land bought in 1895 by Corbett. No
alcohol. Corbett built his poshest houses within easy walking distance of the
railway but out of sight of it. Cheaper houses either nearer the railway or on
the far edge of the estate.
dene hole. 1878, a shaft and chamber discovered. In order to remedy the water supply, workmen
discovered that water ran into a disused brick shaft with a brick crown. The shaft was 100 yards from a
houseand was 140 ft. deep widening into a chamber in .chalk, which was 40 ft.
by 50 ft. and 9 ft high. It had a flat roof in a band of flint, and was
supported by three pillars of chalk in the centre. The shaft was lined as far as the chalk.
There were eight courses of brickwork in the chalk lining. The whole of the lining rested on a plate of
wood on a ledge.
two Roman burial urns also
found which were smashed by accident.
Crookston Road
1a s
Shop was on the site of a
hut stayed there and used as a shop until 1958
Used for hutments
Dairsie Road
Used for hutments
Drumbeck Road
Used for hutments
Earlshall Road
Used for hutments
Elibank Road
One hut at least still used
as garden shed
Used for hutments
Eltham Park Gardens
Corbett c. 1909
Eltham Park Station,
Eltham Park
Station. 1st July
1908 by the South East and Chatham Railway. Opened as ‘Shooters Hill and Eltham
Park’. The line had been proposed by
landowners along the route and the station was part of a law suit between
Corbett, the developer, and the owner of land. Substantial and capacious, brick
booking office, footbridge with shops in the original building. Very impressive
with covered walkways and platforms on a
gradient.. Designed by Alfred William Blomfield and laid out by Jackson,
1849-84, civil engineer of Bexley Railway. On the east side of Westmount Road
but street buildings converted to shops after the booking office had been moved
onto the footbridge.. In 1927 it was renamed ‘Eltham Park’. closed 3/85. Some street level buildings
survive and are listed.
Shooters Hill sub station alongside
Park House stood opposite
the station
Eltham Warren
Golf Course: Gravel path
lane and nature study centre. Warren source of spring water for palace and moat
and lots of springs. Gravel pits of 1740s. Grassland etc. foxes and rabbits.
Drainage ditch across the golf course ancient derelict hedges around. Round
very good.
Eltham Park North
Bought by London County
Council 1929 after pressure from WBC. North part bought in 1930 to conserve the
old Long Pond Walk. Woodlands, and a special atmosphere, particularly around the Long Pond. Surrounded on three
sides by Shepherdleas Woods. The
grassland is managed as meadow.
Long Pond. Lots of frogs and water birds. This is an ancient long pond, probably dug 1800-1830 and used as a boating
lake in mid-19th. It is attractive, with its overhanging trees. .
Children’s play area, a putting green and tennis courts.
Roman
remains
Denehole
Eltham Park South
Eltham Park.
This very large area of open space is divided by the railway line and the Rochester Way Relief Road, which run alongside
each other in a deep cutting. Eltham Park South was
acquired by the London County Council in
1902, as public open
space. An early open space in the area. ).
Has a
large grassed area with sports facilities
Open air swimming pool
opened 1924. Closed and derelict
Greenvale Road
Used for hutments
Railline
Blackheath to Falconwood is a green
corridor with cuttings and embankments with sycamore and oak woodland. Hawthorn and bramble providing habitat for
birds and animals.
Rochester Way
Deansfield. Old playing field surrounded by
Shepherdleas Wood. Rough grassland with
scrub and young trees.
Shepherdleas Wood
Shepherdleas Wood. part
of the ancient forest that covers Shooters Hill and it forms part of Eltham Park. Many of the trees were damaged by the storm
of 1987. Acquired 1934.
There are fine views. It was acquired by the London County Council at
the same time as Oxleas Wood
and had similar characteristics to it. it is designated a site of special scientific interest, and is classified as ancient
woodland, though there have been many changes. The dominant tree is oak, and there are also sweet chestnut, blackthorn, aspen, hazel, birch, ash, wild cherry, as
well as the rarer wild service tree. There is a wide variety of shrubs, wild herbs
and other wild plants in dense undergrowth. there is
a fine display of bluebells in the late spring, particularly on the western side.. There
is a good network of footpaths through the woods.
Westmount Road
92/98 Station Parade. Shops in what was originally Eltham Park
Station. 96 was the booking office. The
station was originally built by the firm of Sir
Arthur Blomfield & Son in 1908 to serve the Eltham Park Estate, already at
that time well advanced in
construction. It was quite splendid, with covered walkways down ramps to the
canopied platforms. It was originally called Shooters Hill & Eltham Park
Station, and was renamed Eltham Park in 1927.
It was closed in 1985 and replaced by Eltham Station. The remains (which can
be viewed from Glenlea Road across the Rochester Way Relief Road) consist of the platforms and, behind the
shops, a short and derelict section of the wooden
covered walkway. The original station building is now 92/98 Westmount Road, having between the wars become a parade
of shops; 96 with its distinctive upper part
was the original entrance and booking office.
285 Co-op Bungalow branch
opened 1917. In three huts. Closed when the new shop opened in Well Hall
Three sculpted vent pipes?
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