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PLAN: ELDER ROAD TO KNIGHT’S HILL, WEST NORWOOD

PLAN: ELDER ROAD TO KNIGHT’S HILL, WEST NORWOOD

Detail from a plan of Norwood Common dated 1806, showing Great Elderhole Coppice, Elder Road, Gipsy House Road and the Rose & Crown public house off Vicar's Oak Road. Landowners include: Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Thurlow, Samuel Sanders, Thomas Ponton, Sir J. Mawbey, Thomas Lett and Mrs Nesbit. Thomas Ponton also owned Hercules Row in Lambeth, built by his father Daniel, which made him WIlliam Blake's landlord.
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Ref:11217
Identifier:19/1806/MF
Date:1806

#-Before 1850  #OPEN SPACES  #Print  #ROADS AND STREETS