Oxleas Meadow, Woolwich, London, SE18

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Oxleas Meadow, Woolwich, London, SE18

Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 3 Apr 2013

This 1940/50s(?) café at the closed end of the Crown Woods Lane cul-de-sac looks out over the 77 hectares Oxleas Meadow and Woods site. The Royal Manor of Eltham was established in 1311 and it included this area. The woods were leased to Sir John Shaw, 2nd Baronet, by the Crown in 1679 and his family managed them until 1811. The woods were then acquired by the London County Council for public recreation purposes in 1930 and were opened to the public in 1934. Responsibility for the site passed to the Borough of Greenwich when the GLC was disbanded in 1986.

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