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Oppenheim Road, LONDON, SE13 7PT

The road is named after the Earls of Dartmouth who own (or owned) most of the land around here. The dead-end road on the right is Morden Hill; beyond that junction the through road becomes Lewisham Hill and leads down into Lewisham town centre.

London County Council parks boundary marker on the east side of Lewisham Hill SE10, against a south facing brick wall facing onto Blackheath. These posts mark the ownership of parks and open spaces – see http://www.metadyne.co.uk/n-PropertyAndOtherMarks.html#lcc. Milestone Society National ID: KE_LCC07em

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Lewisham Hill at the junction of St Austell Road and Wat Tyler Road. This is a scenic route from Lewisham to Greenwich on foot or by cycle.

This 18th century house, now divided into apartments, is listed grade 2 (list entry number 1080040). It appears to have had several different names: originally it was Dartmouth House, the London home of the Earl of that ilk. But the list description calls it "Southwark Diocesan House" as it was at one time owned by the Church of England (but a local vicar tells me they sold it in the 1970s). It was also known as the "Greyladies College for Women Workers", in institution founded in 1893, by Bishop Yeatman of Rochester and occupying this site from 1907, at which time a chapel was added. The Greyladies were "a society of ladies living together for the purpose of helping in the work of the Church of England under the incumbents of the diocese" at a time when of course they could not be priests themselves. Source: http://chestofbooks.com/food/household/Woman-Encyclopaedia-1/Religion-The-Greyladies-College-For-Women-Workers.html#.VaBAVl9Viko

This Anglican parish church on Dartmouth Row is grade 2* listed. It was originally a chapel founded in 1695, but the west end seen here dates from 1834 and is therefore classed as late Georgian. See the interior photo Image] for more history.

The parish church of the Ascension was originally a chapel founded in 1695. Only the apse (semicircular sanctuary as shown in the photo) remains of this original building. The rest of the church was rebuilt by Lord Dartmouth in 1834. It was made a parish church in 1883; the pews date from that time. The church was restored after the Second World War with the north and south galleries being removed and the west gallery cut back.

The name refers to the 1970s buildings seen within the walled compound marking the boundary of the original Dartmouth House estate. For an explanation of the name, see Image

An unofficial path or "desire line" leading from Dartmouth Row up onto the heath itself.

This road leads from Blackheath Common down to central Lewisham. St. Austell's Road junction is on the left.