Plan showing a perambulation along the 1808 Lambeth parish boundary from Brixton Hill (Turnpike Road) and New Park Road (Bleak Hall Lane), along Lyham Road and Bedford Road (Bleak Lane) to Clapham Road (Turnpike Road). Places noted in the accompanying text include: Rushy Common; Rev. Mr Fielding’s house and windmill; land belonging to Messrs Crook, Ellison and Bates, plus Mr Pugh; Rushy Common; Bleak Hall Farm and the Clapham Workhouse.From ‘Perambulation of the Parish of Lambeth in the County of Surrey, 1808’ by Middleton and Bailey, Lambeth: ‘…the Rector, parish Officer and Inhabitants of Lambeth, have, from time immemorial, been in the habit of walking the Bounds of the Parish.’Ref: P6 \/p57<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Plan showing a perambulation along the 1808 Lambeth parish boundary from Brixton Hill (Turnpike Road) and New Park Road (Bleak Hall Lane), along Lyham Road and Bedford Road (Bleak Lane) to Clapham Road (Turnpike Road). Places noted in the accompanying text include: Rushy Common; Rev. Mr Fielding’s house and windmill; land belonging to Messrs Crook, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,9,27,259,31,73,3,7,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-before-1850","category-buildings-architecture","category-brixton-hill","category-local_history_library","category-open-spaces","category-pen-and-ink","category-roads-and-streets","category-street-furniture","category-welfare-and-social-institutions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n