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…Lewisham. Popu­la­tion: 19,040 (Lewisham Central ward, mid-2014 estimate, indi­cating a 44 per cent increase since 2001) Station: South­eastern and Docklands Light Railway, Lewisham branch (zones 2…

Grove Park, Lewisham A mixed settle­ment of council and private housing, separated by the railway line from the Downham estate to the south-west This was…

Ladywell, Lewisham A verdant resi­den­tial locality beside the River Ravens­bourne on the west side of Lewisham As early as 1472 a spring was recorded on…

Catford, Lewisham A much-rede­vel­oped town centre surrounded by late Victorian and Edwardian housing, situated on the River Ravens­bourne south of Lewisham The Catford Cat, a…

St Johns, Lewisham The south­ern­most part of Deptford, spilling into north-west Lewisham and north-east Brockley In 1773 Stone House became the area’s first signif­i­cant building.…

Hither Green, Lewisham A part-gentri­fied satellite of Lewisham, situated south-west of Lee and east of Catford Hither Green hospital’s clock-​​faced water tower, seen during the…

Bellingham, Lewisham An interwar municipal estate situated beside the River Ravens­bourne south of Catford This place was first iden­ti­fied in 10th-century Anglo-Saxon charters as Beringaham.…

Deptford, Lewisham/Greenwich A historic Thames-side settle­ment, situated west of Greenwich Deptford’s existence was first mentioned in 1293 – when it was called Depeford. The ‘deep…

…Thornton Heath has the most residents of black Caribbean descent, followed by Lewisham’s Catford South and Croydon’s Bensham Manor (which is actually just more of…