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Ringmore View, LONDON, SE23 3DB

These houses have some of the most spectacular views in London. To the front, there is an almost unbroken view of the City and West End, all the way to the hills some miles north of the city centre. The top of this hill is around 100m above sea level.

Compare with https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/758375 which shows the same house in 2008. Within the last year, it has been gutted and renewed, the garage being removed and replaced by a new window in the former position of the front door with a new front door next to it. It is good to see the original patterned glass being retained.

A lovely unspoilt 1930's house in Forest Hill.

Ringmore Rise, looking southwards.

This tower folly was built in the grounds of Tewkesbury Lodge, a large house built in the 1880s for Herbert Charles Beyer. The house was demolished around 1930 and the area developed into what is now known as the Tewkesbury Lodge estate. The house itself was where 1, Horniman Drive was built www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6432193. The folly, built of Kentish ragstone was on the ridge at the edge of the grounds with views east over South London and west over Kent. It is now a spectacular garden feature of a house in Liphook Crescent and is quite difficult to see, except through the gap between the houses.

On Langton Rise, by an electricity substation built over the course of the former Crystal Palace (High Level) railway.

The third most obvious example of 1930s modernism on the Tewkesbury Lodge Estate. See also the more flamboyant Welcome Aboard https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/758554 and the third example just down the road https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6432193. Forest Hill has more than its fair share of 1930s modernist buildings as well as the Horniman Museum which is a rare example of Art Nouveau architecture in the UK.

Canonbie Road, in South East London, has views across Central London. Conditions were a little hazy on the day this image was taken. Nevertheless, it is just possible to make out landmarks including the London Eye, St Paul's Cathedral, The Shard and the "walkie-talkie" building if you look closely.

Canonbie Road is on a steep ridge in South East London. This image shows the view north-westwards towards Central London, although conditions were a little hazy on the day the photo was taken.

Canonbie Road climbs a steep ridge in South East London. There are good views over central London, although conditions were a little hazy on the day this image was taken.